Mike Ioakimedes, a former Benicia planning commissioner and city councilmember, lost his bid to serve on the Board of Supervisors for Solano County’s second district. Instead, that seat will go to Solano Community College board Trustee Monica Brown, who received 53 percent of the vote to Ioakimedes’ 45 percent.

In other races affecting Benicia, the city’s congressman, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Napa) will return to Washington, D.C., for his ninth consecutive term to serve California’s 5th District. He steadily defeated Republican Carlos Santamaria 79 to 20 percent.

In the 3rd District state Senate race, two Democrats vied to fill a seat vacated by outgoing Sen. Lois Wolk. In the end, Bill Dodd of California’s 4th Assembly District defeated Mariko Yamada, who had also previously held that seat. Dodd received 58 percent of the vote to Yamada’s 41 percent.

In California’s 14th Assembly District, Concord City Councilmember Tim Grayson and educational advocate Mae Torlakson ran to fill the seat vacated by Susan Bonilla, who ran to fill another Assembly seat left by Mark DeSaulnier. Although Torlakson had a slight victory over Grayson in the primary, Grayson went on to win the election with 61 percent of the vote.

At the state and national levels, Solano County’s results were mostly consistent with California’s results. Attorney General Kamala Harris bested Rep. Loretta Sanchez for a U.S. Senate seat with 63 percent of the vote in California. In Solano County, Harris performed slightly better with 67 percent of the vote.

Although Republican New York businessman Donald Trump will become the nation’s 45th president, he will be doing so without California’s 55 electoral votes. Instead, the Golden State opted to vote for Hillary Clinton, the former Democratic secretary of state, with 61 percent of the vote. This result was slightly higher than in Solano County, where she received 60 percent of the vote.

In terms of ballot measures, Solano voted to deny Measure A– which would have enacted an additional 0.25 percent sales tax to fund general city services–, approve Measure B—which would have advised the Board of Supervisors to use revenue from Measure A on children’s services, although its fate is unclear with the denial of Measure A– and approve Measure C– which will issue a tax of 15 percent of annual gross receipts for marijuana businesses.

For full results, visit the Solano County Registrar of Voters’ election results page at http://solano.ca.electionconsole.com/election.php?e=2016%20General&t=display.

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