Unofficial election results posted in Tehama, Glenn counties

Julie R. Johnson, Corning Observer, Calif.
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Mar. 12—County election offices have published unofficial results for the 2024 California presidential primary election, and in Tehama County it appears the race for seats on the Board of Supervisors went to the challengers and not the incumbents.

According to the Tehama County Elections Office report, the challenger to unofficially beat out the incumbent in the Supervisor District 5 race was Greg Jones with 69.92 percent of the votes over incumbent John Leach's 20.06 percent. Sharon Novak, a candidate who dropped out of the race a couple weeks ago, still pulled in a few votes.

The supervisors' race for District 2 shows candidate challenger Tom Walker pulling in 55.52 percent of the votes against incumbent Candy Carlson's 32,23 percent, and candidate Johnna Jones' 14.73 percent.

The race for District 1 had no incumbent as current Supervisor Bill Moule decided to not not seek another term, however, the race between the two candidates, Kris Dieters and Rob Burroughs, remains close with Burroughs so far earning 53.52 percent against Deiters' 46.48 percent. As of the election's department's fourth unofficial count posted Monday afternoon, it appears that the race goes to Burroughs.

In Glenn County the face of the election results for supervisor seats goes to the incumbents.

Incumbent for District 1 went to unchallenged incumbent Grant Carmon with 502 votes.

The 3rd District seat was unofficially won by incumbent Thomas Arnold who took home 459 votes against his challengers, Anthony Arendt's 448 votes and Mary Viegas' 360.

Two candidates ran for the vacant District 5 supervisor seat, with Jacob Withrow unofficially taking the prize at 503 votes against his opponent, Gee Singh's 378 votes.

As with the republican vote throughout the state, presidential candidate Donald Trump won the republican ticket in Tehama and Glenn counties.

On the state level, Trump won the republican race with preliminary results of 87.7 percent.

President Joe Biden, running as incumbent won the Tehama County ballot, beating out all other names in the race with 88.14 percent of the votes. The sitting president also won the ticket statewide.

In both counties it was republican candidate Steve Garvey who won the race for U.S. State Senator with 55.21 percent of the votes. Democrat candidate Adam Schiff came in a far second with 18.80 percent.

Garvey also won in both counties for the partial term for U.S. State Senator.

However, it looks like the two candidates will be facing a runoff for the two seats in November.

Incumbent republican Doug LaMalfa won another term for U.S. Representative First District.

The race for State Senator First District went to candidate Megan Dahle in both counties.

In Tehama County incumbent State Assemblyman James Gallagher once again won the race for District 3 earning 77.09 percent of the votes, far out-pacing his opponent, democrat Aaron Draper's 23.91 percent. The numbers weren't that different across the district, with it appearing the incumbent will be serving another term.

Voters in Tehama and Glenn counties squashed Proposition 1 with the "no" votes, however, it appears the proposition won on the state level by a very slim margin. The decision may yet be undecided.