About a quarter of the registered voters in Santa Cruz County turned out in this week’s gubernatorial primary election that included five state propositions and local races for judge and county supervisor.
“I think it went fairly well,” County Clerk Gail Pellerin said the day after the election. “We were a little delayed at the end. There were three precincts with faulty scanners, and that kept us there for an extra hour and a half.”
The 25.49 percent turnout Tuesday, June 8, was the county’s lowest for a gubernatorial primary election in a decade. In the other two, June 2006 and March 2002, turnout was 39.9 percent and 48.84 percent, respectively.
More than 22,500 voters cast votes countywide, and election officials are still counting more than 14,800 mail-in and provisional ballots. Pellerin said she doubts the outcomes will change much after those votes are counted.
“I think it would be unlikely, but you never know what’s in those envelopes,” she said.
Below are results from all 22 precincts in the county and the results of races of interest in the state and county.
Santa Cruz County races
County Supervisor — 3rd District
Neal Coonerty, 56.93 percent
Cove Britton, 34.31 percent
Douglas Deitch, 8.43 percent
County Supervisor — 4th District (Results in November run-off)
Tony Campos, 43.54 percent
Greg Caput, 37.11 percent
Emilio Martinez, 19.05 percent
Running unopposed for offices in Santa Cruz County were County Superintendent of Schools Michael Watkins, Assessor-Recorder Sean Saldavia, Auditor-Controller Mary Jo Walker, County Clerk Gail Pellerin, District Attorney Bob Lee, Sheriff-Coroner Phil Wowak and Treasurer-Tax Collector Fred Keeley.
**Proposition 13 (Property Taxes and Seismic Retrofit of Buildings): California, 84.5 percent “yes”;
Santa Cruz County, 86.11 percent “yes”
**Proposition 14 (Primary Election Participation): California, 54.2 percent “yes”; Santa Cruz County, 51.73 percent “yes”
**Proposition 15 (California Fair Elections Act — publicly financed elections): California, 57.5 percent “no”; Santa Cruz County, 52.8 percent “yes”
**Proposition 16 (Local Electricity Providers): California, 52.5 percent “no”; Santa Cruz County, 70.16 percent “no”
**Proposition 17 (Auto Insurance Pricing): California, 52.1 percent “no”; Santa Cruz County, 66.64 percent “no”
For complete local election results, visit www.votescount.com.
