LAKE COUNTY — Vote tallies updated late Tuesday night to include ballots cast at the polls confirmed what preliminary counts showed. Susanne La Faver and James Comstock will run-off in November for the District 1 Supervisor seat, and incumbent Rob Brown won the District 5 Supervisor seat for his third term.
La Faver and James Comstock were the two top vote getters in the District 1 Supervisor race, and will run-off in November. La Faver garnered 599 votes, 31.7 of the district”s vote. Comstock was 22 votes behind her with 30.5 percent of the vote.
“We”re thrilled to be the top choice of District 1 voters.?We look forward to discussing the issues with voters and our opponent during the next five months, then going on to win in November,” La Faver wrote in a prepared statement after the results from all 10 precincts in District 1 were posted at 10:40 p.m. Tuesday.
“I”m very pleased with the result. I”m pleased to be in the run-off and looking forward to it ? to having debates, listening to the constituency and moving forward with the campaign. I”m excited about it,” Comstock said.
Following the two top candidates were Don Dornbush with 12.3 percent of the vote, Scott Fergusson with 11 percent, Robert MacIntyre with 9 percent and Joey Luiz with 5.2 percent.
Brown”s updated vote tally is 1,258, which is 59.1 percent of the District 5 vote. Stark got 861 votes, which is 40.7 percent of the vote.
“I have been honored to serve this district up to this point. Anything after that is just a gift by the voters. I want to try hard not to disappoint them,” Brown said.
“I think local candidates across the state were affected by the moving of the presidential primary. Right up until Monday, I was telling people, ?there”s an election tomorrow.” It”s amazing how many people didn”t get it. Notwithstanding, I was proud of having stood up and made myself available to the people. That”s what is important,” Stark said.
Out of 33,143 voters registered in Lake County, 25.2 percent voted Tuesday, according to the results. District 1 had a 27.1 percent voter turnout, and 29.7 percent of the voters in District 5 voted.
Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley said her office has until July 1 to certify the election and release official results.
In other election news, results showed Proposition 98, eminent domain, failed with 57.4 percent of the vote against it. Proposition 99, also dealing with eminent domain, passed with 64.4 percent of the vote.
District 4 Supervisor Anthony Farrington ran unchallenged and had 1,258 votes and 38 votes for write-in candidates.
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