In Monterey County Supervisorial District 1,  Incumbent Fernando Armenta appears to be leading (Tony Barrera) with 53 to 46 percent of the vote.  In the District 5 race, Dave Potter seems to be beating Marc Del Piero 54 to 45 percent.

Mayor Jerry B. Edelen ran un-opposed, to serve as the Mayor of Del Rey Oaks,  while Incumbent Monterey mayor Chuck Della Salla  and Incumbent Soledad Mayor Frank Ledesma also ran un-opposed in their cities.

In Monterey County, Mayor Jerry B. Edelen ran un-opposed, to serve as the Mayor of Del Rey Oaks,  while Incumbent Monterey mayor Chuck Della Salla  and Incumbent Soledad Mayor Frank Ledesma also ran un-opposed in their cities.

In a 3-way race for 2 City Council seats in Del Rey Oaks  Kristin A. Clark and Mike Ventimiglia appear to be the winners…..with 41 and 37 percents of the vote. Scott Larsen has only picked up 20 percent of the vote.

The Greenfield City Council is a 5-way race for 2 seats, and it appears that Raul C. Rodriguez and Lance Walker are the top vote getters.

In King City’s 6-way race for 3 seats on the City Council Belinda T. Hendrickson, Incumbent Robert Cullen,  and Karen Jernigan appear to be the winners.


Marina Mayor    In the city of Marina, the race for mayor was between Incumbent Bruce Carlos Delgado and Steven Emerson,  and  Delgado received  62 percent of the vote.

In the City of Marina Incumbent Frank O’Connell and Gail Morton were the top 2  vote getters for Marina City Council seats.

In a field of 5,  Incumbent Libby Downey and Alan Haffa appear to have garnered the highest number of votes for the 2 available Monterey City Council seats.

Bill Kampe beat out Incumbent Carmelita Garcia to be the top official in the city of Pacific Grove,  while Casey Lucius, Incumbent Robert Huitt,  and Incumbent Dan Miller appear to have picked up the open city council seats there.

Salinas Mayor Dennis Donahue announced  last  winter  that he would not seek re-election this fall, and that opened the position up to what turned out to be a 5-way race (that includes Councilman Sergio Sanchez who initially planned to challenge Fernando Armenta for his seat on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors).  So far it seems that Joe Gunter has received 54 percent of the vote….which is the most votes among the 5.

On the Salinas City Council - In District 1,  Jose Castaneda got 53 percent of the vote, while in District 4 - Incumbent Gloria de la Rosa  with 57 percent of the vote.  Jyl Lutes got 58 percent of the vote to continue to represent District 6.
Ralph Rubio appears to have captured the POSITION OF Mayor of Seaside, with 52 percent of the vote, while Felix Bachofner received 47 percent.

In the race for 2 seats on the Seaside City Council, David Pacheco picked up 29 percent of the vote, and Ian N. Oglesby got 24 percent.

Incumbent Richard J. Perez, and Patricia Stephens, have won seats on the Soledad City Council.

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