Well, for 80.26% of Humboldt County’s registered/eligible voters who did not vote in yesterday’s local elections, here are the races you had no impact on deciding. (Note: There are inevitably still a few provisional/absentee ballots to be counted, but LoCO will eat its hat if those change anything.)

Humboldt County Elections Office Final Report (83 of 83 precincts reporting):

Northern Humboldt Union High School District (Vote for 3)

  • 22.6% - Brian Lovell
  • 20.9% - Colleen Toste
  • 20.2% - Mike Pigg
  • 19.8% - Dana Silvernale
  • 15.7% - Mark Suchanek

Arcata Fire Protection District Director Division 2 (Vote for 1)

  • 58.8% - Linda Sundberg
  • 41.0% - Jeff Schwartz 

Eureka City Schools (Vote for 1)

  • 50.5% - Lisa Ollivier (total votes: 2,995)
  • 49.1% - John Fullerton (total votes: 2,915)

McKinleyville Community Services District (Vote for 3)

  • 26.1% - George A. Wheeler
  • 25.8% - Dennis Mayo
  • 25.1% - David R. Couch
  • 22.6% - Bill Wennerholm

McKinleyville Union School District (Vote for 3)

  • 28.2% - Tim Hooven
  • 24.7% - John McCarthy
  • 24.1% - Mary McCarthy
  • 22.3% - Justin Zabel

Redwoods Community College (Vote for 1)

  • 42.6% - Thomas R. Ross
  • 29.9% - Mike Wells
  • 26.8% - Ginger Olsen

Manila Community Service District - Four Year Term (Vote for 2)

  • 41.7% - John Woolley
  • 31.7% - Dendra Dengler
  • 24.1% - Violet Glass

Manila Community Service District - Two Year Term (Vote for 1)

  • 48.1% - Salena Kahle
  • 41.4% - Michael Fennell
  •  9.6% - Daniel E. O’Leary

Measure K Fieldbrook/Glendale Community Services District

  • 85.2% - Yes
  • 14.8% - No

Ferndale Unified School District (Vote for 3)

  • 30.0% - Ken Richardson
  • 24.5% - Jerry Hansen
  • 23.1% - Stephanie Koch
  • 21.0% - Joanne Farley

Bridgeville Elementary School District (Vote for 3)

  • 30.7% - Curtis Cross
  • 27.1% - Amber Woodworth
  • 21.7% - Nicholas N. Entsminger
  • 19.9% - Diana Bennett