Politics & Government
REAL-TIME RESULTS: Who Will Win OC Board Of Supervisors Seats?
Orange County Patch's live roundup of Tuesday's election results from across Orange County in the primary election for March 3, 2020.
ORANGE COUNTY, CA — Turnout was strong for Tuesday’s election as voters made their choice in the presidential primary, and voted on the largest proposed bond issue in state history. In Orange County, one of the most watched elections were that of the Orange County Supervisors 1st and 3rd Districts.
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Orange County Supervisors 1st District, which contains the cities of Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Westminster, incumbent Andrew Do is facing Sergio Contreras, Kim Bernice Nguyen and Miguel Pulido.
In the 3rd District of the OC Supervisors, which contains the cities of Anaheim, Tustin, Irvine, Orange and Yorba Linda, Donald Wagner is facing Ashleigh Aitken.
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As of 12:45 a.m. the initial results show Do leading in the 1st District by a wide margin at just over 44.6 percent over Sergio Contreras at 20.6 percent, Miguel Pulido at 19.9 percent and Kim Bernice Nguyen at 14.9 percent
A runoff election will take place in November between the top two candidates, likely Do and Contreras as of this report.
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Wagner held an early lead with 54.4 percent of the early votes over Asheligh Aitken at 45.6 percent.
No runoff election will take place in November for the 3rd District, as only two candidates were vying for that seat.
Early numbers were likely from mail in ballots and in person voting. The remaining ballots will be counted by Friday, the Orange County Registrar of Voters office has said.
REAL-TIME RESULTS For Orange County Elections
Now that everyone's cast their votes, the question is: So who won?
Nearly 1.5 million people are registered to vote here in Orange County, according to the latest voter registration numbers from Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office. Statewide, 20.4 million voters were registered on Super Tuesday, an increase of 3.1 million since the last presidential election in 2016. In fact, 80 percent of eligible Californians are registered to vote, the highest heading into a California Presidential Primary in the past 68 years.
“California entered 2020 with a record 20.4 million registered voters—and I only expect that figure to climb as we reach the Presidential Primary in March and General Election in November,” said Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
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