The San Diego County registrar of voters certified the Nov. 6 midterm election results on Dec. 6.
The city of Chula Vista mayor’s race confirmed Mary Casillas Salas’s landslide win over Hector Raul Gastelum with 71.86 percent of the votes, or a total of 54,062.
Gastelum received 21,175 votes.
Incumbent Chula Vista City Council District 1 representative John McCann won with 51.66 percent of the votes, while his challenger Mark Bartlett secured 48.34 percent.
Overall, McCann won with 767 more votes than his challenger, a stark contrast to McCann’s election four years ago when he beat Steve Padilla by two votes.
Chula Vista City Council District 2 is now represented by Jill M. Galvez after she won by 5 percentage points, with 8,871 votes against Steve Stenberg’s 8,027.
Chula Vista City Attorney Glen Googins will stay another four years after his election night totals were 43,333 or 60.32 percent of the vote against Andrew Deddeh.
In National City, Alejandra Sotelo-Solis won out of a field of four in the mayoral race, with 46.14 percent of the vote, defeating political opponents D. Delossantos Yamane, R. Mitchel Beauchamp and Daniel Perez.
In the race for two seats on the city of National City City Council, Ron Morrison received 4,966 votes and Mona Alvarado-Rios won with 4,844 votes, placing them both on the dais. Other council challengers were Jose Rodriguez, Candy Morales, Sherry Gogue and James Kim III.
Chula Vista Elementary School District Seat No. 3 went to Leslie Ray Bunker who received 34,211 votes, beating challengers Famela Ramos and Aaron Moreno.
In the Chula Vista Elementary School District Seat No.5 race, Eduardo Reyes won with 46,029 votes. He ran against Tania A. Solis and Kate Bishop.
Out of a field of seven candidates in the National School District race the top three vote winners were Maria Castaneda, Maria Dalla, and Alma Sarmiento.
South Bay Irrigation District Division Seat 1 went to Steve Casteneda who won with 3,813 votes against Paul Crawford.
South Bay Irrigation District Division Seat 4 was won by Hector M. Martinez with 4,301 votes against Jerry Thomas and M. Kevin O’Neill.
Measure Q—Chula Vista’s attempt to tax recreational cannabis—saw voters confirm the measure with 64.32% of the vote, capturing 48,607 votes.
In National City Measure W – an attempt to establish rent control was defeated with 50.64% of the voters choosing to oppose it.
Measure CC was confirmed with a landslide 88.22% of the vote or 116,125 votes in favor.
Measure DD— a $403 million bond initiative— required 55% of the vote to pass and captured 86,510 votes, or 69.15% of the vote.
U.S. Representative Juan Vargas easily won a re-election challenge by Juan M. Hidalgo Jr. with 87,415 votes compared to 33,076.
State Assembly 79th District incumbent Shirley N. Weber beat Jon Moore, 103,533 votes.
Lorena Gonzalez retains her 80th District Assembly seat after defeating challenger Lincoln Pickard, capturing 74.98%, or 82,621 votes.
In the Southwestern Community College District Seat 4 Leticia Y. Cazares secured 46.70% of the vote beating Nicole Jones and Tamara Rodriguez .
In spite of his loss Gastelum said he was grateful for the experience of running for the Chula Vista mayor’s seat.
“It’s hard to beat an incumbent. I was happy about the process because I talked about issues. The budget deficit and the pension deficit of $161 million; those topics will resurface 4 years from now,” he said.
