Scott Baugh pulls ahead of Dave Min, conservatives on track to unseat liberals in Huntington Beach

As many as 1,007,150 ballots representing 54.1% of all registered voters in Orange County had been counted as of Wednesday morning. At the federal level, Democrat Dave Min was leading Republican Scott Baugh in the race to claim the seat in Congress that was Katie Porter’s shortly after polls closed. But the challenger pulled ahead over night, and was sitting on a slim 3,010 vote advantage the next morning.

Many incumbents or candidates supported by them were ahead of their competition at the state level, and in local competitions in Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Laguna Beach and Newport Beach, according to preliminary results released by the Orange County Registrar’s office.

Meanwhile, conservative challengers were leading Huntington Beach’s three liberal incumbents in a tight race for three at large seats. And a local measure for that city that would amend its charter to require voter approval of changes to their general plan and zoning appeared to be moving toward approval. Early tallies showed about 58% of the ballots that had so far been counted were in favor of Measure U and just over 42% against it.

The following are the results for voters living within the Daily Pilot coverage area.

House of Representatives, 47th District

Scott Baugh (R) 130,219 (50.58%)
Dave Min (D) 127,209 (49.42%)

State Assembly

District 72

Diane Dixon (R) 121,586 (60.37%)
Dom Jones (D) 79,820 (39.63%)

District 73

Cottie Petrie-Norris (D) 73,011 (54.89%)
Scotty Peotter (R) 60,005 (45.11%)

County Supervisor, 1st District

Janet Nguyen 120,917 (63.17%)
Fances Marquez 70,494 (36.83%)

City Races

Costa Mesa City Council

Mayor
John Stephens 15,874 (52.12%)
James Peters 14,585 (47.88%)

District 1
Mike Buley 3,693 (55.33%)
Adam C. Ereth 2,981 (44.67%)

District 2
Loren Gameros (unopposed) 3,685 (100%)

District 6
Jeff Pettis 3,221 (52.33%)
Jeffrey Harlan 2,934 (47.67%)

Fountain Valley

City Council

Two open seats
Ted Bui 8,269 (36.27%)
Glenn Grandis 9,820 (32.94%)
Alicia “Rudy” Huebner 5,162 (17.32%)
Katy V. Wright 4,016 (13.47%)

Huntington Beach

City Council

Three open seats
Chad Williams 35,651 (19.91%)
Butch Twining 29,529 (16.84%)
Don Kennedy 29,104 (16.65%)
Natalie Moser (incumbent) 26,837 (14.28%)
Dan Kalmick (incumbent) 26,229 (13.88%)
Rhonda Bolton (incumbent) 24,937 (13.21%)
Marissa Jackson 6,492 (3.71%)
Amory Hanson 2,682 (1.52%)

City Clerk

Lisa Lane Barnes 40,229 (59.07%)
Regina M Blankenhorn 27.870 (40.93%)

Treasurer

Alisa Backstrom (unopposed) 55,357 (100%)

Measure U

Yes 41,798 (57.67%)
No 30,685 (42.33%)

Laguna Beach

City Council

Two seats open
Bob Whalen (incumbent) 5,590 (30.64%)
Hallie Jones 5,360 (29.38%)
George Weiss (incumbent) 4,138 (22.68%)
Judie Mancuso 3,154 (17.29%)

City Clerk

Ann Marie Mckay (unopposed) 8,262 (100%)

City Treasurer

Laura Parisi (unopposed) 8,318 (100%)

Newport Beach

City Council

District 2
Michelle Barto 21,228 (62.10%)
Nancy Scarbrough 12,955 (37.90%)

District 5
Noah Blom 22,162 (64.41%)
Jeff Herdman 12,244 (35.59%)

District 7
Sara J Weber 24,729 (73.78%)
Miles Patricola 8,789 (26.22%)

Community College Districts

Coast Community College District

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 2
Phu Nguyen 16,724 (56.88%)
Joe Dovinh 7,391 (25.14%)
Linda R Zamora 5,288 (17.98%)

Rancho Santiago Community College District

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 3

Cecilia “Ceci” Iglesias 5,319 (45.03%)
Nelida Mendoza 2,661 (22.96%)
Andrew Linares 1,962 (16.93%)
Audrey Noji 1,649 (14.23%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 5
David Crockett 7,116 (56.54%)
Maya Ruiz 5,469 (43.46%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 7
Tina Arias Miller 13,598 (78.94%)
Tony Castro 3,627 (21.06%)

South O.C. Community College District

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 1
Carolyn Inmon 22,180 (68.19%)
Katherine Daigle 6,551 (20.14%)
Marlene Bronson 3,794 (11.66%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 3
Lisa A Bartlett 29,798 (53.21%)
Rocky Cifone 26,198 (46.79%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 6
Ryan Dack 21,720 (59.65 %)
Michael Franklin 14,694 (40.35%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 7
Timothy “Tim” Jemal 26,825 (59.65%)
Carl J. David 20,512 (43.33%)

School Districts

Laguna Beach Unified School District

Two open seats
Sheri Morgan 4,588 (23.48%)
Howard Hills 4,516 (23.11%)
Jan Vickers 4,327 (22.14%)
Lauren Boeck 3,927 (20.10%)
Margaret Mary Warder 2,182 (11.17%)

Newport-Mesa Unified School District

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 1
Leah Ersoylu 4,184 (50.03%)
Robin Mensinger 4,179 (49.97%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 3
Carol Crane 5,286 (50.29%)
Philip Stemler 5,225 (49.71%)

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 6
Krista Weigand 4,361 (46.67%)
Amy Peters 3,379 (36.16%)
Chris Kretzu 1,604 (17.17%)

Huntington Beach Union High School District

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 3
Susan Henry 13,500 (66.66%)
Leeann Corral 6,751 (33.34%)

Fountain Valley School District

Two open seats
Steven Schultz 12,358 (45.16%)
Ashley Ramirez 7,576 (27.68%)
Huy Tran 7,431 (27.16%)

Huntington Beach City School District

Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 1
Brian Burley 3,375 (50.97%)
Cindy Barrios 3,246 (49.03%)

Ocean View School District

Two open seats
Gina Clayton-Tarvin 13,948 (27.85%)
Keri Gorsage 11,457 (22.88%)
David Clifford 11,332 (22.63%)
Keith Jorgensen 9,654 (19.28%)
John Briscoe 3,684 (7.36%)