Super Tuesday Counts In!

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By Jerry Henry on March 5, 2020.

Election counts from yesterday are still coming in, but a majority has been counted and reported. The Democratic race count has Sanders with 992,328 votes to Joe Bidenas count at 733,100. California has a total of 494 delegates in the Primary race, which is the largest count in the country. As of this morning, Candidate Bloomberg carried 424,679 and Elizabeth Warren received 357, 307 of the vote count. Bloomberg announced this morning that he is pulling out of the race. City of Sacramento voters gave Mayor Darrell Steinberg for his second term.

In Placer County with 301 precincts reporting 100% which leaves only the mail-in ballots to be counted, Biden received 26.2% against Sanders 23.7%. In other Placer County counts: Doug LaMalfa remains in office with 62.7% vote for House District # 1; Tom McGlintock beat his opponent Kennedy with 54.4 to 35.8 % of District voters to remain in the seat. In the state: Brian Dahle maintains Senate District # 1; His Wife, Megan Dahle retains the State House Seat for District # 1; and Kevin Kiley retained his House District 6 seat with 63% of the vote. In The county Jim Holmes received 53% against opponent Mike Murray 41%; Kirk Uhler maintained his District seat, and Cindy Gustafson won her first voter run with 73%.

Proposition 17, the School support issue that disguised a property tax on commercial real estate was defeated by a 56% NO vote. In Placer County 60% voters voted NO on Measure A-Eureka Union School; 54.9% NO on Measure B-Colfax School District; 80% NO on Measure C-Yuba Community School; 69% NO on Measure D, Western Placer Unified School which included an Aquatic Center for the new Lincoln Highschool; and 81% NO on Measure E-Los Rios Community College.