The Santa Barbara County Elections Office on Wednesday certified the results of the Nov. 3 election and reported a record-breaking 203,506 ballots cast, including 183,660 vote-by-mail ballots.
Joe Holland, the clerk-recorder-registrar of voters, said the election had an 86.5% turnout, which is slightly higher than the 2008 election turnout record of 86.4%.
On the day after the election, Holland estimated that the county had received about 215,000 ballots, which would have been a 90% turnout, but the total ended up lower.
While some of the margins may have changed, the results have not changed from the semiofficial election night results, which are listed in detail by clicking here.
| 11/2/2004 | 11/4/2008 | 11/6/2012 | 11/8/2016 | 11/3/2020 | |
| Registered County Voters | 213,194 | 204,440 | 203,994 | 222,983 | 235,198 |
| Ballots Cast | 171,564 | 176,562 | 164,977 | 182,264 | 203,506 |
| Voter Turnout | 80.5% | 86.4% | 80.9% | 81.7% | 86.5% |
Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte won with 62% of the vote, coming out ahead of longtime Councilman Roger Aceves. The two incumbent councilmen on the ballot, Kyle Richards and Stuart Kasdin, won re-election as well.
Santa Maria Mayor Alice Patino won re-election with an even larger margin, garnering 64.3% of the vote. Councilman Mike Cordero was re-elected in an uncontested race, and newcomer Carlos Escobedo won the first-ever District 1 seat on the City Council.
In Lompoc, Mayor Jenelle Osborne was re-elected with 53.6% of the vote over Councilman Victor Vega, and newcomer Jeremy Ball bested incumbent Jim Mosby for a City Council seat with 58.5% of the vote. Gilda Cordova was re-elected to the District 1 seat in an uncontested race.
Buellton Mayor Holly Sierra won another term, and the two City Council seats were won by John Sanchez and Elysia Lewis.
Solvang Councilman Chris Djernaes was recalled by city voters — 86.9% of them supported the recall — and former Sheriff Jim Thomas will take his seat. Charlie Uhrig won the mayor’s seat, and in a close City Council race, Mark Infanti and Claudia Orona won seats. Orona beat the third-place candidate, Justin Rodriguez, by 53 votes, according to the certified election results.
Councilman Wade Nomura and Natalia Alarcon won the two seats on Carpinteria’s City Council.
Uncontested races in Guadalupe resulted in Mayor Ariston Julian being re-elected, and Antonio “Tony” Ramirez and Gilbert Robles won council seats.
The outcomes of multicounty elections (24th District Congressional seat, State Senate and State Assembly seats) will be final when all of the involved counties certify their results, which will happen by Dec. 11.
San Luis Obispo County certified its election results Wednesday, but Ventura County has not yet done so.
None of those elections are close.
With results finalized in Santa Barbara and SLO counties, and Ventura’s latest numbers reported, Democratic incumbent Salud Carbajal, a former Santa Barbara County supervisor, won another term, with 58.7% of the vote, over Republican challenger Andy Caldwell.
Assemblywoman Monique Limón won the 19th District State Senate seat held by Hannah-Beth Jackson, who is leaving because of term limits. She had 64.5% of the vote, according to the Secretary of State’s Office, coming out well ahead of Santa Maria resident Gary Michaels.
Republican incumbent Jordan Cunningham, of northern SLO County, won re-election for the 35th District State Assembly seat with 55.1% of the vote, beating Democratic challenger Dawn Addis.
For the 37th District State Assembly seat, Democrat Steve Bennett, a former Ventura County supervisor, beat Charles Cole, a Republican from Santa Barbara, in the election for the open seat.
Limón currently represents the 37th District in the State Assembly and will leave it for the State Senate seat.
Every registered voter in California was mailed a ballot for the Nov. 3 election because of pandemic-related policies adopted by the state, and Santa Barbara County was well situated to pull it off. As of March, 77% of registered voters already voted that way, Holland said.
Ballot drop boxes were installed around the county, and polling places were open for four days, although there were fewer of them, to offer early voting options.
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will review and certify the election results at a future meeting.
City Councils, school boards, special district boards and other governing bodies will start swearing in their new members next month and into early 2021.
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