Elections update on statewide results, local seats

Nationally and certainly in an already Democratic Party majority California, a “blue wave” rolled over the voter polls in the midterm elections. The local voting population largely remained ”red.” With more than three-quarters of the expected vote statewide tallied, according to Calaveras County elections officials, as of last Friday the local voter turnout rate was just over 65% with ballots tallied from 21,310 of its 32,758 registered voters. Apparent winners for the top offices pending final results, include Democrat and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who was deemed to have won the Governor’s race with 66% of the vote; although in strongly Republican-leaning Calaveras County, it was business executive Steve Hilton who garnered 64% of the local vote.

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