Vacaville Mayor Race Close: Roy Stockton Leads Sarah Chapman
Vacaville's mayor race is close.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Vineyards in Napa Valley in autumn. Photo: Brocken Inaglory / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
These are early, unofficial returns from NBC Bay Area's Solano County results page. Totals were cross-checked against ABC7's results page.
Mayor
Roy Stockton: 50.52% (10,430)
Sarah Chapman: 49.48% (10,216)
District 2
Tom Chalk: 57.66% (2,613)
Greg Ritchie: 42.34% (1,919)
District 4
John Vogel: 54.86% (1,333)
Davonna Finley: 45.14% (1,097)
District 6
Jeanette Wylie: 64.82% (2,344)
Kevin Puett: 35.18% (1,272)
ABC7 marks Greg Ritchie and Jeanette Wylie as incumbents.
All results are unofficial election-night and early-morning counts as of Wednesday, Nov. 4. Counties keep counting mail and provisional ballots for days, and certification comes later, so margins can shift, especially in close contests.
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