Supervisorial Races
California has 58 counties, each of which is governed by five supervisors (except for San Francisco, which has eleven). County supervisors are responsible for overseeing county government programs, such as hospitals, welfare and jails. The number of people represented by each supervisor varies by the population in each county: California's smallest county, Alpine, has 1200 residents, with each supervisor representing 240 people, while California's largest county, Los Angeles, has 9,230,600 residents, with each supervisor representing 1.8 million people. Supervisorial salaries also vary by county.
Each supervisor is elected to a four-year term, and the contests are staggered so that no more than three seats come up at one election. Supervisorial contests are non-partisan; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the primary election, the top two vote getters proceed to a run-off in the November election. The list below, provided by the California State Association of Counties, identifies those counties that are having run-off contests this Fall.
ALAMEDA
District 1
Ken Mercer vs. Scott Haggerty
ALPINE
District 3
C.Ann Wade vs. Katherin Rakow
AMADOR
District 1
Richard Escamilla vs. Marilyn Lewis
District 2
Tom Bamert vs. Cal Terhune
District 4
Louis Boitano vs. Leroy Carlin
BUTTE
District 5
Gordon Thomas vs. Fred Davis
CALAVERAS
District 1
Fred Gerard vs. Lucille Thein
District 2
Rosemary Faulkner vs. Paul Stein
District 4
Thomas Tryon vs. Anthony Tyrrell
COLUSA
District 2
Dave Dana vs. Douglas White
District 4
William r. Waite vs. Gary J. Evans
CONTRA COSTA
District 2
Gayle Uikema vs. Kathy Radke
District 3
Curtis Kinney vs. Donna Gerber
DEL NORTE
none
EL DORADO
District 3
J. Mark Nielsen vs. Carol Lewis
FRESNO
District 5
Stan Oken vs. Bob Waterston
GLENN
none
HUMBOLDT
District 2
Roy Heider vs. Roger Rodoni
IMPERIAL
District 4
Tom Veysey vs. Abe Seabolt
INYO
none
KERN
District 1
Bob Addison vs. Jon McQuiston
District 5
Al Gutierrez vs. Pete Parra
KINGS
District 5
Brent Madill vs. Alene Taylor
LAKE
District 1
Chris Dawson vs. Ed Robey Jr.
LASSEN
none
LOS ANGELES
District 4
Don Knabe vs. Gordana Marie Swanson
MADERA
District 1
Patty Logoluso vs. William Bell
MARIN
District 4
Steve Kinsey vs. Dotty LeMieux
MARIPOSA
none
MENDOCINO
District 4
Patricia Campbell vs. Darrell Galli
MERCED
none
MODOC
District 3
John Dederick vs. Patricia Demick Cantrall
MONO
District 3
Joann Ronci vs. Don Rake
District 4
Ed Inwood vs. Lou deBotarri
MONTEREY
District 5
Sam Karas vs. Jeff Davi vs. Dave Potter
NAPA
District 2
Mark Luce vs. Lewis Jefferson
NEVADA
none
ORANGE
District 1
Charles Smith vs. Mark Leyes
District 3
Mickey Conroy vs. Todd Spitzer
PLACER
District 4
Hazel Hineline vs. Jim Williams
PLUMAS
none
RIVERSIDE
District 3
Jim Venable vs. Jan Leja
SACRAMENTO
none
SAN BENITO
District 2
Ruth Kesler vs. Richard Place
District 5
Bob Cruz vs. Marcie Huston
SAN BERNARDINO
District 1
Marsha Turoci vs. Kathy Davis
District 3
William Lemann vs. Dennis Hanaberger
SAN DIEGO
none
SAN FRANCISCO
none
SAN JOAQUIN
District 1
Floyd Weaver vs. Steve Gutierrez
SAN LUIS OBISPO
District 3
Peg Pinard vs. Roger Freberg
District 5
David Blakely vs. Mike Ryan
SAN MATEO
none
SANTA BARBARA
District 3
Willy Chamberlin vs. Gail Marshall
SANTA CLARA
District 3
Pete McHugh vs. Patricia Sausedo
District 5
Barbara Koppell vs. Joe Simitian
SANTA CRUZ
District 2
Walt Symons vs. Paul Elerick
SHASTA
none
SIERRA
none
SISKIYOU
District 2
Lavada Erickson vs. Vernon Smith
SOLANO
District 2
John Silva vs. Doris Lowe
SONOMA
District 5
Eric Koenigshofer vs. Michael Reilly
STANISLAUS
none
SUTTER
District 1
Casey Kroon vs. Larry Montna
TEHAMA
District 2
George Russell vs. Billy Mooneyham
TRINITY
District 2
JoAnn Baxter vs. Paul Fackrell
District 3
Cliff Chandler vs. Ralph Modine
District 5
Robert Reiss vs. Marvin Stewart
TULARE
none
TUOLOMNE
District 4
Michael DeBernardi vs. Mark Thornton
District 5
Dick Pland vs. Bob Coane
VENTURA
District 3
Kathy Long vs. Mike Morgan
YOLO
none
YUBA
District 2
B.J. Palquist vs. William Simmons
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