FINAL CALIFORNIA ELECTION RETURNS : KERN COUNTY

Bakersfield

Ward 3

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Mike Maggard: 4,884 (72%)

S. Roy Bustamante: 1,160 (17%)

Percy Robinson: 446 (7%)

Gene Clark Shearer: 259 (4%)

Ward 4

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

David Couch: 7,161 (60%)

Kevin McDermott*: 4,780 (40%)

Ward 7

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Mark C. Salvaggio*: 3,543 (74%)

Shelby Holmes: 1,223 (26%)

Bakersfield City School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Karen De Walt*: 16,853 (41%)

Jerry C. Tate*: 12,624 (31%)

Ralph W. E. Anthony: 8,944 (22%)

Wesley C. Muhammad: 2,724 (7%)

Bear Valley Community Services District

Measures

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

E--Contract with Postal Service for mail delivery (Advisory)

Yes: 1,246 (68%)

No: 576 (32%)

F--Authorize to adopt and enforce weed abatement ordinance (Advisory)

Yes: 1,138 (63%)

No: 681 (37%)

Caliente Union School District

Trustee Area 2

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Wayne Moody**: 141 (63%)

Barbara Lawrence: 82 (37%)

California City

Mayor

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Larry M. Adams*: 1,740 (79%)

Lottie M. Walker: 467 (21%)

City Council

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Russell Eddington: 1,257 (33%)

William H. Dempsey: 1,139 (30%)

Karen L. Benson*: 947 (25%)

Pierre Poudevigne: 503 (13%)

Treasurer

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Lauralee Wagner*: 1,547 (72%)

Tony Z. Overman: 592 (28%)

Measure

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

C--City Clerk appointive

Yes: 1,102 (52%)

No: 1,002 (48%)

Delano

City Council

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Anthony Martinez*: 1,740 (30%)

Gilbert R. Flores: 1,537 (27%)

Don Callahan*: 1,525 (27%)

Johnny Munoz: 934 (16%)

Delano Joint Union High School District***

Measure

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

A--School bonds

Requires two-thirds vote

Yes: 3,007 (79%)

No: 801 (21%)

Delano Union School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Lucio Gonzales*: 1,651 (20%)

Kathy Gutierrez*: 1,352 (17%)

Ramon M. Cardenas*: 1,330 (16%)

Kevin L. Williams: 1,310 (16%)

Roger Sanchez: 1,260 (16%)

Roger A. Gadiano: 1,218 (15%)

El Tejon Unified School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Kitty Jo Nelson: 969 (34%)

Steve Newman*: 644 (22%)

Steven Baltzer: 601 (21%)

Craig Stowell: 372 (13%)

Chuck Herbert: 297 (10%)

Frazier Park Public Utility District

Office 2

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Bob Landstrom: 241 (45%)

Ben Carson*: 179 (34%)

Dahrina Dahrinet: 57 (11%)

Richard S. Burns: 56 (11%)

Office 4

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Leroy B. Vaughn: 287 (57%)

Dee Raber: 215 (43%)

Office 5

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Candace K. Huskey: 255 (51%)

Larry Swendener: 249 (49%)

Indian Wells Valley Airport District

Partial Term

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Floyd D. Carter: 4,716 (54%)

Richard C. Jackson: 3,969 (46%)

Indian Wells Valley Water District***

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Peter E. Brown*: 5,600 (39%)

Joseph Mallory*: 5,304 (37%)

Chuck Griffin II: 3,587 (25%)

Kern Community College District

Trustee Area 2***

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Mary C. Lattig: 7,608 (56%)

Jim A. Smith*: 5,972 (44%)

Trustee Area 5***

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Herbert D. Bonds: 2,620 (69%)

Ted Ensslin: 1,167 (31%)

Kern High School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Connie Wattenbarger*: 54,126 (31%)

Sam Thomas: 34,961 (20%)

Joel Heinrichs: 27,748 (16%)

Gloria Guerra Scott: 23,437 (13%)

Rick Benson: 22,710 (13%)

Nicholas E. Kavanaugh: 12,575 (7%)

Kern Valley Health Care District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

H. Bradley Armstrong*: 2,883 (45%)

Steve Timm: 2,011 (31%)

Wayne Ottoson: 1,495 (23%)

Kernville Union School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

J. M. Kent*: 2,131 (28%)

Kenneth Bushling: 1,727 (23%)

Mike Hughes**: 1,616 (21%)

Thomas E. Moore: 1,233 (16%)

Ross Elliott: 891 (12%)

Lamont School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Jesse Atondo: 557 (25%)

Jose E. Gonzalez Jr.*: 483 (22%)

Joyce Sanders*: 465 (21%)

Maria Elena Caraballo*: 361 (16%)

Dora A. Olgin: 357 (16%)

Lost Hills Union School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Nelly Borja: 32 (30%)

William C. Roden*: 30 (28%)

Janice L. Deatherage: 24 (22%)

Gerry Lee Evans*: 22 (20%)

Maple School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Susie Richards*: 68 (49%)

Samuel D. Frantz*: 45 (33%)

Tammi Onsum: 25 (18%)

Maricopa

City Council

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Virgil Musgrave: 194 (35%)

James Owens: 156 (28%)

Richard Gillette: 58 (10%)

Dianna Emfinger: 58 (10%)

Andy Blakely*: 43 (8%)

Henry Tonkin: 30 (5%)

Jackie Walker: 23 (4%)

Maricopa Unified School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Ted L. Destrampe*: 268 (27%)

Becky Ashcraft*: 205 (20%)

Alberta Stubblefield*: 201 (20%)

Donna Hamblin: 194 (19%)

Larry Robison: 139 (14%)

McFarland Unified School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Arturo J. Munoz: 414 (25%)

Donald D. Chandler*: 398 (24%)

Adam Valdez: 368 (22%)

Rafael Melendez*: 357 (21%)

Rita Lorta: 145 (9%)

McKittrick School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Carl Twisselman III*: 30 (36%)

Dean R. Thompson*: 27 (33%)

Valerie M. Parris: 26 (31%)

Midway School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Teena Simmons*: 67 (36%)

Amy U. Parker*: 60 (33%)

Theresa Birdsong: 57 (31%)

Mojave Unified School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

George Lewis: 970 (13%)

Shawn Sprague: 904 (12%)

Annette E. Edblad*: 862 (11%)

Connie Biehl*: 861 (11%)

Rita C. Kellas**: 830 (11%)

Michael S. Edmiston: 740 (10%)

Evelynn J. Turner: 672 (9%)

William L. White: 672 (9%)

Timothy Storey: 585 (8%)

Kathryn Pluta: 515 (7%)

Partial Term

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Keith Gainey: 1,603 (61%)

Richard Hall: 1,009 (39%)

Muroc Joint Unified School District

Trustee Area 3***

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Stanley J. Evans: 401 (40%)

Willie Nelson: 289 (29%)

Lamour Riddle: 196 (20%)

Mike Lowrey: 112 (11%)

North of River Municipal Water District

Division 2

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Donald Gage: 740 (54%)

Larry W. Hubbard**: 633 (46%)

Panama-Buena Vista Union School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Cheryl Palla*: 13,714 (47%)

Bill Bruce*: 10,138 (35%)

Dorothy June Bogges: 5,170 (18%)

Rand Communities Water District***

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Mike Hillenbrand: 91 (30%)

J. Bart Parker*: 80 (26%)

Ruth Phillips*: 74 (24%)

Louise A. Richardson: 43 (14%)

Kent Cassel: 20 (6%)

Richland-Lerdo School District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Noel R. Wilson*: 1,045 (31%)

Deanna Rodriguez Root: 722 (22%)

Roger Riley: 703 (21%)

Richard M. Evans: 469 (14%)

Eloy Guevara: 391 (12%)

Ridgecrest

City Council

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Chip Holloway: 4,147 (29%)

Donna Darnell: 2,980 (21%)

Rick D. Lovett: 2,495 (18%)

Roger Clark: 1,104 (8%)

Thomas R. Wiknich: 1,024 (7%)

Howard G. Laire: 984 (7%)

Thomas C. Mather Jr.: 676 (5%)

Frank Mansfield: 589 (4%)

Ahmad Goodarzirad: 138 (1%)

Partial Term

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Steve Rollins: 2,495 (36%)

Carol Ericson: 2,494 (36%)

John P. Slaughter: 1,266 (18%)

Gabriela J. Fulton: 715 (10%)

Measure

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

K--Utility tax

Requires two-thirds vote

Yes: 1,610 (21%)

No: 6,121 (79%)

Rosamond Community Services District

Measures

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

G--Exercise powers for public recreation (Advisory)

Yes: 1,342 (57%)

No: 1,008 (43%)

H--Public recreation special tax (if G passes)

Requires two-thirds vote

Yes: 968 (41%)

No: 1,374 (59%)

I--Exercise powers for graffiti abatement (Advisory)

Yes: 1,578 (69%)

No: 700 (31%)

J--Grafitti abatement special tax (if I passes)

Requires two-thirds vote

Yes: 1,283 (57%)

No: 987 (43%)

Rosedale Union School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Ken Mettler*: 2,925 (21%)

Lisa R. King*: 2,843 (20%)

John R. Ackland: 2,119 (15%)

Flovon B. Forsyth: 1,990 (14%)

David L. Barger: 1,531 (11%)

Beth Adamson: 1,428 (10%)

Bill Matthew: 1,370 (10%)

Shafter

City Council

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Jon W. Johnston: 1,089 (35%)

Cathy L. Prout*: 1,033 (33%)

Mark Franz: 994 (32%)

Shafter Recreation and Park District

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Dennis Jay Atkinson*: 1,266 (34%)

Rick Gonzales: 834 (22%)

Susan Hamilton**: 642 (17%)

Gregory Scott Estes: 615 (16%)

Jason Hutchison: 373 (10%)

Sierra Sands Unified School District

Trustee Area 2***

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

William Farris*: 5,872 (28%)

John G. Condos*: 5,545 (27%)

June A. Eierman*: 5,403 (26%)

Tony Beste: 3,917 (19%)

Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District

Ward 4

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

James Regan: 2,314 (54%)

Robert E. Hiett*: 1,980 (46%)

Standard School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Doug Wattenbarger*: 2,448 (31%)

Brian T. Ansolabehere: 1,618 (20%)

Sue Hankins*: 1,486 (19%)

Steven M. Ruettgers: 1,250 (16%)

Pam Neal: 1,161 (15%)

Taft

City Council

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Bill Baker*: 688 (15%)

Ron Waldrop: 663 (14%)

Paul D. Ackermann*: 556 (12%)

John T. Duffy*: 490 (11%)

Craig Noble: 435 (9%)

Cliff Thompson: 368 (8%)

Lee Wilson: 355 (8%)

Donald Nathan Braun: 323 (7%)

Chuck Alldredge: 283 (6%)

Neal Finney: 274 (6%)

Matthew C. Holm: 161 (4%)

Tehachapi

City Council

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Philip A. Smith*: 988 (28%)

Mariana Teel**: 892 (25%)

Zirl Kitchen**: 844 (24%)

Thomas Lynch: 778 (22%)

Measure

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

D--Approve increase in transient occupancy tax

Yes: 699 (44%)

No: 906 (56%)

Tehachapi Valley Health Care District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Patrick C. Lantz*: 3,997 (24%)

Elizabeth M. Lask*: 3,768 (22%)

Barry E. Breen: 3,186 (19%)

Bob Easterday: 2,253 (13%)

Carl Gehricke**: 2,186 (13%)

Richard Hamer: 1,426 (8%)

Wasco

City Council

2 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Cherylee Wegman: 1,160 (36%)

Ofelia Hardin: 771 (24%)

Melvin McLaughlin*: 670 (21%)

Roy Johnson*: 649 (20%)

Wasco Union High School District

3 Elected

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

Louie Joseph Crettol: 861 (16%)

Tim Holtermann: 833 (15%)

Terry A. Nachtigall: 707 (13%)

Jimmy Don Greenfield: 649 (12%)

Raquel Salinas: 611 (11%)

Mark Albert*: 607 (11%)

Barry Braun: 585 (11%)

James W. Johnston Jr.*: 553 (10%)

Measure

100% Precincts Reporting: votes (%)

B--School bonds

Requires two-thirds vote

Yes: 1,568 (66%)

No: 815 (34%)

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Key to Election Tables

* An asterisk (*) denotes an incumbent candidate; a dagger () denotes an appointed incumbent.

* A double dagger () indicates a district is shared by two or more counties. The individual tables do not reflect the total vote.

* Elected candidates and approved measures--or those leading with 99% of precincts reporting--are in bold type. Results are not official and could be affected by absentee ballots.

* Uncontested local offices and write-in candidates are not included in the tables

* Party affiliation is indicated in parentheses:

(A) American Independent

(D) Democrat

(G) Green

(I) Independent

(L) Libertarian

(M) Reform

(N) Natural Law

(P) Peace and Freedom

(R) Republican

* 0% indicates information was unavailable at edition time or only absentee ballots had been counted.

* District locations are identified by county. In Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura counties, they are identified by community.

Contributing to The Times’ election coverage:

* Technical assistance: Victor I. Pulver, Stephen Bergens, Dony Hu and Martin Leadman.

* Compiled by: Times editorial researchers Nona Yates and Tracy Thomas.

Sources: Election returns provided by California Secretary of State and county registrars of voters.

Contributing to The Times’ election coverage:

Justin Blumhoff, Wendy Cota, Sheila Dixon-Howard, Susan Gil, John Hernandez, Elsa Luna, Adrienne Lynch, Mario Munoz, Cecilia Rasmussen, Arthur Serrano, Lilia Thompson, Jack Torres and Tomas Torres.