Edhat Staff
Undersheriff Bernard Melekian and re-elected Sheriff Bill Brown at his Tuesday evening party (Photo: Patti Gutshall)
By edhat staff
The ballots are in and the political winners have been named. While some results were pretty close, a few candidates ran unopposed to secure their long-held seats.
Below are the results for our local elections, click here to see the detailed and state-wide results.
U.S Representative 24th District 
Salud Carbajal: 54.49%
Justin Fareed: 37.08%
Michael Erin Woody: 8.29%
Carbajal and Fareed will face off for the second time this coming November.
State Assembly 35th District
Jordan Cunningham: 62.52%
Bill Ostrander: 37.27%
State Assembly 37th District
S. Monique Limon: 85.2%
David L. Norrdin: 6.74%
Sofia Collin: 5.64%
County Superintendent of Schools
Susan Salcido: 98.01%
County Board of Supervisors, 2nd District
Gregg Hart: 98.28%
Hart will be leaving his Santa Barbara City Council seat for the County Supervisor position.
County Board of Supervisors, 5th District
Steve Lavagnino: 98.07%
Auditor – Controller
Betsy Schaffer: 57.34%
Jennifer Christensen: 42.31%
The closest local race in this election was between two women battling it out for the Auditor-Controller position. Schaffer received 7,000 more votes to win.
Clerk – Recorder – Assessor
Joseph Holland: 87.65%
Baz Donald Ofiaeli: 12.10%
District Attorney
Joyce Dudley: 98.02%
Sheriff – Coroner
Bill Brown: 54.01%
Brian Olmstead: 31.61%
Eddie Hsueh: 14.19%
Brown was challenged by two of his Lieutenants for his long-held position, but he pulled ahead claiming more than the 51% he needed to keep his seat.
Santa Barbara City Council Member – District 3
Oscar Gutierrez: 52.9%
Michael Vidal: 36.28%
Elizabeth Hunter: 6.59%
Kenneth Rivas: 3.64%
The highly publicized race for Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo’s former City Council seat came down to a few Westside votes, as suspected. Gutierrez, who was endorsed by Murillo, beat out his competitor Vidal by just 169 votes.
Measure Q: Lompoc USD Bond Measure
Yes: 50.29%
No: 49.71%
Measure T: County Cannabis Operations Tax
Yes: 75.73%
No: 24.27%
Measure R: Isla Vista CSD Utility User Tax
Yes: 82.75%
No: 17.25%
What are the Oscar haters going to do now? They really wrote some nasty things about him on Edhat and in the Indy.
In fact it’s the voters who got what they wanted.
Murrillo got her Puppet in. The Democratic Machine doesn’t care about the quality of the candidates, just that they will tow the line. Oscar is a warm body that gave up his integrity to get endorsed and get a higher paying gig. He saw a chance and took it. She will never go against Murillo. That is political suicide for him and he owes her too much. Residents just have no real clues as to what’s really going on. They’re out of touch, out of the loop and out of luck if they’re looking for someone to really help them now on the Westside. Mark my words, Oscar will parrot Murrillo and vote with her and against residents as Murrillo leads the charge to build unaffordable housing and gentrifies lower income Neighborhoods – all while she pushes policies that benefit developers and landowners. Residents deserve someone better than Oscar. He is truly clueless with the issues and not competent to do even a below mediocre job. The only hope for residents is a new party and someone who has a clear understanding of what is going on and why. These Dems are dysfunctional and too myopic to do anything for the benefit of anyone but themselves. They don’t really care about what happens as a result of their desires to ensure that certain goals are met, it’s frankly irrelevant to them.
News Flash: You do not become a television producer by being lazy, stupid, or incompetant. Oscar became a television producer by being sharp, informed, and highly educated. He will do a fine job irregardless of those who will put up roadblocks and want him to fail….just like they tried to do to President Obama….did not work.
You sound like the person who posted all those crazy signs on the corner of Micheltorena and Chino Streets about the Bike Blvd and Oscar-hating. The fact is, the Bike Blvd has long been a done deal and anyone coming into the City Council now can’t change it. Too late, it’s done.
41.4% turnout according to John Palmintieri
What would Murillo’s successes be, exactly, other than consistently demonstrating single-minded power-hunger?
I couldn’t agree more local in Sb but unfortunately only locals like us actually care that our town has been completely ruined by back to back sellout mayors. It’s been devastating to witness and it’s not done yet.
Every qualified person voted. Many people chose to disqualify themselves. Making my vote worth more!
Mebe you shud run fer ofice
So, every qualified person voted, some disqualified themselves? The lazy ones who couldn’t be bothered will possibly be the ones to complain loudly about how things go. They have no right to bi##h.
The election results show that the unions control who gets elected to the city council because they are REALLY good at getting their members to the polls.
Highly educated? Oscar could not canvas the Westside without a caretaker. He will show his incompetence and residents will be stunned by the deception. He memorized scripts.
Murillo wins again. Wow, she really just gets what she wants every time, huh?
The election results show how many people are involved and care about our local community.
What’s wrong with acknowledging Murillo’s successes?
I have to say that for the first time I wasn’t enthusiastic about voting. I think it is because there is so much going on, negatively, at the national level, that this primary election where everyone who was predicted to win, did, did not seem to be very important. But I am very happy that the Bay Area voters recalled that judge in the Stanford case. I definitely would have voted in that election.