ELECTION: Results Final, Frontrunners Hold Leads

The final election results are in, and the candidates who held the lead on Wednesday morning secured their places on the ballot, according to the Riverside County Registrar of Voters.

The Registrar counted nearly all the votes, but about 7,300 votes by mail, 7,000 provisional and 4,200 damaged ballots need to be processed. An update should be available on Wednesday.

US Congress
Republican Duncan D. Hunter and Democrat David B. Secor will appear on November's ballot for District 50, which includes most of Temecula.
Hunter got 5,096 votes, or 65.71 percent. Secor came in a distant second, with 1,308 votes, or 16.87 percent.

Parts of Temecula, including much of the northeastern corner of the city, are in District 42, and will vote for either Republican Ken Calvert or Democrat Michael Williamson.
Calvert got 32,828 votes, or 51.47 percent. Williamson trailed behind with only 9,167 votes, or 14.37 percent.

State Assembly
The District 75 State Assembly race results were no surprise with only two people running. Escondido City Council member Marie Waldron got 8,035 votes, or 70.63 percent. Challender Matthew Herold got only 3,341 votes, or 29.37 percent, landing both of them a spot on November's ballot.

The race was much more contentious for District 67, which includes the unincorporated areas near Temecula, such as Wine Country, French Valley and Winchester.

Phil Paule, a French Valley resident and assistant to Congressman Darrell Issa, scored a narrow victory over second-place winner Melissa Melendez, a Lake Elsinore City Council member. Paule got 11,240 votes, or 28.17 percent, and Melendez got 9,248 votes, or 23.18 percent.

County Supervisor
Another race to bear no surprises was for the County Supervisor's 3rd District seat.

Incumbent Jeff Stone, who got his start in politics as a Temecula City Council member, won 27,592 votes, or 66.19 percent. Challenger Joe Scarafone got 14,096 votes, or 33.81 percent.

Other races of interest
Another incumbent supervisor who won the hearts of many Temecula residents -- and the ire of others -- by voting alongside Stone to reject Liberty Quarry was Bob Buster. He won the race for the 1st District narrowly. He got 15,226 votes, or 38.42 percent. State State Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries came in a close second with 12,452 votes, or 31.42 percent. Temecula residents will not, however, be able to vote in this race.

In a contentious race, longtime music promoter and community volunteer William "Bill" Gould came in a close second for the county Board of Education, landing himself on November's ballot. He got 12,012 votes, or 44.93 percent, just below the first-place winner, Bruce N. Dennis, who got 14,724 votes, or 55.07 percent.

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