Napa County Primary 2022: Election Night Results

NAPA COUNTY, CA — The polls are closed in Napa County, and voters will soon know who will serve as sheriff and whether there will be runoff races for the 1st and 3rd county supervisor districts.

In the race for sheriff, early election night results showed Oscar Ortiz in the lead with 60.33 percent of votes while Jon Crawford garnered 39.67 percent of votes.

If no candidate in the supervisor races received more than 50 percent of the vote, then the top two vote-getters will head to a Nov. 8 runoff election. In the second round of election night results, Joelle Gallagher (44.49 percent) and Suzanne Besu Truchard (28.15 percent) led with the most votes among four candidates for 1st District supervisor. Among six candidates for 3rd District supervisor, Anne Cottrell (40.63 percent) and John Dunbar (20.27 percent) garnered the most votes, early election night results showed.

The outcome of four local measures also hang in the balance in Napa County.

Voters are waiting to find out if Measure L — a 1/4-cent countywide sales tax increase for fire protection and reducing wildfire risk — will garner the necessary two-thirds majority votes it needs to pass. When the second wave of results hit Tuesday night, 58.49 percent voted Yes on Measure L, meaning it was shy of the required two-thirds majority vote.

American Canyon voters will see whether Measure I, which would establish term limits for council members and the mayor, garners the simple majority of votes needed to pass. Early election night results showed more than 80 percent of votes counted were in favor of term limits for both the mayor and council members.

And in St. Helena, where voters were waiting to find out whether two measures pass or fail, early results showed Measure G received 55.38 percent No votes and 44.62 percent Yes votes. If Measure G were to pass, it would eliminate the office of the mayor being directly elected by the people; instead, the mayor would be a sitting council member elected by the five members of the city council.

Measure G requires a simple majority of votes for approval, while St. Helena Measure H requires a two-thirds majority vote.

Early election night results for St. Helena's Measure H, which would allow the city council to authorize $19.5 million in bonds to repair and replace the city's aging drinking water system by annually levying $14.82 per $100,000 assessed value, showed 76.98 percent were in favor of the bond compared to 23.02 percent who voted against the bonds.

Napa County voters were also tasked with choosing representatives for the newly drawn 4th Congressional District and 4th California state Assembly District. The second round of election night results showed incumbent Mike Thompson with 72.61 percent of votes, meaning he may have avoided a runoff election to retain his seat as a U.S. Congressman.

In the race for the 4th state Assembly District, election night results showed incumbent Cecilia Aguiar-Curry with 70.26 percent of votes compared to 29.74 percent of votes cast for Bryan Pritchard.

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As of April, the California Secretary of State reported that 26,948,297 Californians were registered to vote, which accounts for almost 82 percent percent of the state's eligible voting population.

Not surprisingly, there are far more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state, with 46.75 percent for the former and 23.92% for the latter. GOP registration in the state has been dropping steadily, a trend that shows no sign of slowing down even as Republican registration climbed at the national level over the last year.

In the 2020 election, 86.6 percent of registered voters in Napa County cast a ballot — a record turnout.

The rate of voter registration remains high in Napa County. As of April, it was 85.68 percent — with 50.28 percent of voters registered as Democrats, 21.35 percent as Republicans and less than 4 percent as American Independents.

Voter turnout is not expected to be as high this primary season, especially without highly competitive statewide races.

Napa County's Election Night Results are below. (Results as of 9:39 p.m. Tuesday, June 7. The Napa County Registrar of voters plans to release the next round of results late Friday afternoon.)

Sheriff-Coroner:

• Jon Crawford
• Oscar Ortiz

County Supervisor 1st District:

• Joelle Gallagher
• Suzanne Besu Truchard
• Garrett Hale
• David Graves

County Supervisor 3rd District:

• Anna Chouteau
• Rafael Rios
• John Dunbar
• Matt Hooper
• Anne Cottrell
• Cio Lucio Perez

Local Measures Napa County

• County of Napa Measure L

• City of American Canyon Measure I

• City of St Helena Measure G

• City of St Helena Measure H

U.S. Representative 4th District:

• Andrew David Engdahl
• Mike Thompson
• Scott A. Giblin
• Jason Kishineff
• Jimih Jones
• Matt Brock

CA Assembly 4th District:

• Bryan Thomas Pritchard
• Cecilia Aguiar-Curry

Click here for all Napa County election results.

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For a complete guide to statewide races, see the CalMatters California Election 2022 Voter Guide.