With President-elect Joe Biden headed to the White House, results in the San Diego area show a continuing blue wave. The city gets a Democratic mayor and a nearly all-Democratic City Council. A Democratic majority is likely on the county Board of Supervisors. And area Democrats won or held on to most House seats. The exception is the race for the 50th Congressional District seat, where a Republican leads. Voter turnout broke records.
President
With more than 300,000 ballots yet to be counted by the San Diego Registrar of Voters, President-elect Joe Biden captured 61 percent of the vote in San Diego County compared to President Donald Trump’s 37 percent. Biden won over voters throughout the city, the coastal communities and many inland suburbs. Trump dominated in eastern and rural regions.
San Diego Mayor
State Assemblyman Todd Gloria leads in the race for mayor with 52 percent of the vote over Barbara Bry’s 44 percent. Both Democrats, Gloria and Bry were in the runoff because they finished first and second in the March primary. Gloria dominated in most city precincts, however La Jolla and parts of Carmel Valley and Fairbanks Ranch went for Bry.
Supervisor District 3
The contest to represent District 3 will determine if Democrats have a majority on the Board of Supervisors for the first time in generations. Supervisor Kristin Gaspar, the Republican incumbent, was losing against Democrat Terra Lawson-Remer, an economist and former senior adviser in Obama’s Treasury Department, as of Friday night. Lawson-Remer has 59 percent of the vote compared to Gaspar’s 41 percent. Lawson-Remer won over most of the district , which includes part of San Diego and the cities of Encinitas, Escondido, Solana Beach and Del Mar. Gaspar did better in parts of Escondido and San Pasqual.
50th Congressional District
With 522,000 ballots still to be counted in San Diego and Riverside counties Friday, the 50th District race shows Republican former congressman Darrell Issa ahead of Democratic businessman and college lecturer Ammar Campa-Najjar by 19,891 votes — 53 percent to 47 percent. The district remains a long-time Republican stronghold.
53rd Congressional District
In the 53rd District, 31-year-old Democrat Sara Jacobs soundly defeated her Democratic opponent, San Diego City Council President Georgette Gómez in the race to replace the district’s retiring 10-term representative, Democrat Susan Davis. The region is heavily Democratic, with of the party outnumbering Republicans more than 2 to 1.
Measure A
A proposed $900M housing bond in San Diego received from a majority of voters, but fell short of the two-thirds approval required. The money would have paid for 7,500 housing units for low-income residents and the formerly homeless.
Measure B
Measure B proposes to dissolve the city’s Community Review Board on Police Practices and create a new independent oversight commission to investigate police shootings, in-custody deaths and certain misconduct complaints. Needing a simple majority, Measure B is likely to .
Measure E
Measure E proposes to strike the Midway District from the city’s coastal zone, which would ease building height restrictions. With just a simple majority required, the measure is likely to .
Voter turnout
In its Saturday update, the San Diego County Registrar of Voters listed voter turnout at 77.1 percent, with 135,000 ballots remaining to be counted. In 2016, turnout was 81.5 percent. This year’s percentage is expected to exceed that.
