El Dorado County releases final election results

The final group of ballots have been counted in El Dorado County, and the results remained the same in all South Lake Tahoe area elections.

South Lake Tahoe City Council- Top 2 Win

Brooke Laine 2548 22.10%

Jason Collin 1995 17.30%
Tamara Wallace 1852 16.06%
JoAnn Conner 1376 11.94%
Ted Long 1295 11.23%
Danny McLaughlin 775 6.72%
John Shearer 758 6.57%
Harold "Trey" Riddle 328 2.84%
Robert Topel 288 2.50%
Patrick Jarrett 268 2.32%

Lake Tahoe Unified School District

Area 1
Larry Reilly 982 53.60%
Annie Davidson 842 45.96%

Area 3
Bonnie Turnbull 1178 53.23%
Dr. Michael Doyle 1025 46.32%

South Tahoe Public Utility District - Top 2 Win

Randy Vogelgesang 5361 35.12%
Kelly Sheehan 4127 27.04%
Nick Exline 3061 20.05%
Kirk David 2675 17.52%

Lake Tahoe Community College District

Area 4
Nancy Dalton 1210 56.17%
David Hamilton 940 43.64%

Lake Valley Fire Protection District - Top 3 Win

Leona Allen 2339 30.37%
John Rice 2148 27.89%
Robert Bettencourt 1774 23.03%
Tony Sears 1395 18.11%

Measure P Needs 2/3 to pass

Yes 4487 68.70%
No 2044 31.30%

Measure U Needs majority to Pass

Yes 2671 42.96%
No 3547 57.04%

Due to a high number of vote-by-mail ballots being turned in at the precincts (over 20,000), election officials had to go through several steps to count them, including verifying every signature.

A total of 116,459 voters turned out for the presidential election, or 83.31 percent of those who are registered.