Election 2020: Latest returns for Orange County school board races

Below are the results from the Orange County Registrar of Voters as of 5 p.m. Saturday for the school board races involving the Newport-Mesa Unified, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach Union, Huntington Beach City and Laguna Beach Unified school districts, and the Coast Community College District:

Newport-Mesa Unified School District

In the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Leah Ersoylu, Carol Crane and Krista Weigand maintained their lead in Tuesday’s election that saw eight candidates vying for three seats on the district’s board of trustees.

Ersoylu held 53.04% (6,565 votes) in Trustee Area 1, which serves Early College and Estancia high schools, TeWinkle Intermediate School, and Adams, California and Killybrooke elementary schools. Behind is incumbent Vicki Snell with 46.96% (5,813) of the votes.

In Trustee Area 3, which includes Eastbluff Elementary, Corona del Mar Middle School, and Back Bay/Monte Vista and Corona del Mar high schools, Carol Crane holds 65.21% (9,642) of the votes, leading the two-candidate race. Opponent Charles Kent Booker currently has 34.79% (5,145) of the votes cast.

Krista Weigand currently has 50.21% (7,147) of the votes cast in Trustee Area 6, which encompasses Kaiser, Woodland, Mariners and Newport Heights elementary schools and Harper Preschool. Weigand leads a four-person race for the area. Amy Peters is second with 37.99% (5,407) of the votes. Xeno Ralf Muller II and Alexis Zavouris are behind with 7.68% (1,093) and 4.12% (586) of the votes, respectively.

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Coast Community College District

The race in the Coast Community College District has not changed, with the incumbents leading in their respective trustee areas.

Jerry Patterson has 51.38% (23,734) of the votes in Trustee Area 2, with opponents Tony Bui and Long Pham trailing with 27.64% (12,765) and 20.98% (9,691) of the votes.

Mary Hornbuckle is leading with 72.76% (38,276) of the votes cast before or on Election Day. Michael Collier has 27.24% (14,328) of the votes.

Fountain Valley School District

Steve Schultz and Jeanne Galindo lead a group of four candidates for two seats on the Fountain Valley School District Board of Education.

Schultz carries 16,110 votes (36.73%), while Galindo, seeking a third consecutive term on the five-person board of trustees, was in second place with 12,039 votes (27.45%).

Incumbent Ian Collins, who has served on the board since 2008, was in third place with 8,708 votes (19.85%). Tom Nguyen was in fourth with 7,005 votes (15.97%).

The board oversees the district’s seven elementary schools and three middle schools.

Huntington Beach Union High School District

Incumbents Susan Henry and Michael Simons were each reelected to the governing board of trustees with relative ease, taking each of the two seats up for grabs.

Henry had 63,542 votes, which represented 25.71% of the total. Simons tallied 56,745 votes, or 22.96% of the total.

Other candidates included Saul Lankster (36,870 votes), Spencer Hagaman (36,681), Christine Hernandez (33,571) and Claudia Ramos (19,736).

Huntington Beach City School District

Incumbent Bridget Kaub was reelected to the board of trustees in Area 1.

Kaub had 5,848 votes, or 74.80% of the total. Challenger Roger Noor had 1,970 votes, or 25.20%.

Laguna Beach Unified School District

With two seats up for grabs on the Laguna Beach Unified School District Board of Education, Kelly Osborne and incumbent Jan Vickers have separated themselves in the five-person race.

Osborne has received 8,249 votes (30.95%) and Vickers 6,122 votes (22.97%).

Vickers has a lead approaching 1,000 votes over Amy Kramer, who is in third place with 5,248 votes.

Sheri Morgan, who is in fourth place, and Kramer, both attended a demonstration at Main Beach to have the district’s secondary schools reopened on Oct. 2.

The district is home to Laguna Beach High School, Thurston Middle School, and El Morro and Top of the World Elementary schools.

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