SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Terra Lawson-Remer expanded her decisive victory over former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer in the County Board of Supervisors race, leading by nearly 13 points Friday.
In what figured to be the most hotly contested of this election's three supervisors races, Lawson-Remer led Faulconer by more than 27,000 votes on Friday.
She declared victory on Wednesday.
"I am honored to have been re-elected by San Diego County voters on Tuesday, and I am committed to defending the best interests of all the people of San Diego County from any potential threats that may arise from a second Trump presidency," she said. "We must rise above divisiveness or despair, and recommit ourselves to fighting for our shared values of fairness, opportunity, democracy, and rule of law."
Though supervisor seats are officially nonpartisan, Lawson-Remer, the board's vice chair, is a Democrat and Faulconer a Republican.
Currently, the board's makeup is three Democrats (Lawson-Remer and Nora Vargas, who was also up for re-election, and Monica Montgomery Steppe) along with two Republicans (Joel Anderson, also up for re-election, and Jim Desmond).
Vargas and Anderson were also leading by comfortable margins in their respective races, which would maintain the board's current ideological structure.
The mostly coastal District 3 stretches from the city of Carlsbad through the Silver Strand and is composed of four municipalities -- Coronado, Del Mar, Encinitas and Solana Beach.
District 3 also features the San Diego city neighborhoods Carmel Valley, Little Italy, Midway, Mira Mesa, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, Pacific Highlands, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, Rancho Penasquitos, Sorrento Valley, Torrey Highlands and University City. Unincorporated communities Harmony Grove and Rancho Santa Fe are also part of the district.
According to a 2022 county Live Well San Diego demographic profile, District 3 is home to 645,449 residents.
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