With 2/3 of the precincts reporting in the Fifth Division, challenger Pat Higgins is way out in front of incumbent Charles Ollivier:
| PATRICK HIGGINS | 1393 | 60.70% | |
| CHARLES L. OLLIVIER | 902 | 39.30% |
It’s a bit closer down in the Second Division, but incumbent Roy Curless has a pretty commanding lead with 40 percent of precincts counted:
| CARLOS QUILEZ | 1195 | 40.80% | |
| STEVEN MORRIS | 223 | 7.61% | |
| ROY CURLESS | 1510 | 51.55% |
315 votes separate Curless and Quilez, and SoHum ballots are presumably the last to be counted. Fortuna is Curless country; the Second Division could depend on how effective the Quilez GOTV effort in SoHum was.
UPDATE:
A third report was released at 10:20 p.m. Not much change.
Second Division, 12 out of 26 precincts counted (one more than last time):
| CARLOS QUILEZ | 1224 | 41.16% | |
| STEVEN MORRIS | 225 | 7.57% | |
| ROY CURLESS | 1524 | 51.24% |
Fifth Division, same. No more precincts in.
UPDATE:
Oof.
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| PATRICK HIGGINS | 3171 | 65.10% | |
| CHARLES L. OLLIVIER | 1691 | 34.72% | |
That’s one of the biggest blowouts in a closely fought election that the county’s ever seen. The DA recall three years ago was 60-40. But 65-35? Oof.
Second Division:
| CARLOS QUILEZ | 2035 | 44.90% | |
| STEVEN MORRIS | 318 | 7.02% | |
| ROY CURLESS | 2175 | 47.99% |
SoHum pulled for Quilez as expected, but not enough.
So it’s an interesting split result. But the stunning Ollivier defeat is certainly the story of the night, and a serious blow for backers of railroad and port development. More tomorrow.
This article appears in Everyone Is Connected.
Hmm… quite better than I expected. This after Wilson’s win seems to send message and it isn’t good for the CPD and the NCRA.