As
expected, Donald Trump handily won Yorba Linda's presidential vote
with a 56.6 percent majority, but the count was below the percentages
won by the GOP candidates in 2008 and 2012.
Fewer
Yorba Lindans were registered to vote this year and more who cast
ballots chose not to vote for the listed candidates for president
than in the previous two presidential elections.
Although
Hillary Clinton won a majority county-wide – the first Democratic
win since 1936 – and took the tally in 21 of the county's 34
cities, she only mustered 33.6 percent in this city (better than
Barack Obama's 29.7 percent in 2012 and about even with his 33.7
percent in 2008).
Trump's
56.6 percent was lower than John McCain's 64.3 percent in 2008 and
Mitt Romney's 68.1 percent in 2012 in city voting.
This
year's registered voters totaled 42,534, less than 43,010 in 2008 and
45,494 in 2012, but 2016's 85.6 percent turnout topped 2008's 81.6
percent and 2012's 77.3 percent.
In 2008,
352 Yorba Linda voters didn't mark a ballot-listed choice for
president, a number that dropped to only 282 in 2012. This year,
1,783 didn't vote for one of the five listed candidates.
GOP
Rep. Ed Royce continued his dominance in the Yorba Linda vote,
winning 66.7 percent here, better than his 55.3 percent county-wide,
51.8 percent in Los Angeles County and 60.4 percent in San Bernardino
County, for a 13th two-year term, over Democrat Brett
Murdock.
Despite
losing for state Senate to Democrat Josh Newman, Republican Ling Ling
Chang won 62 percent of this city's vote. She took just 45.5 percent
county-wide and only 48.4 percent in Los Angeles County, but she won
in San Bernardino County with 54.1 percent.
Republican
state Assembly candidate Phillip Chen won over Democrat Gregg
Fritchle by winning in Yorba Linda (65.9 percent), county-wide (56.8
percent) and in San Bernardino County (56.9 percent). He barely lost
in Los Angeles County (49.7 percent).
Tara
Campbell's big win as the top vote-getter for one of three City
Council positions was across-the-board. She won the early vote,
vote-by-mail ballots and the total precinct vote.
She took
34 precincts, as Gene Hernandez, Beth Haney and Cristy Parker won one
each.
(Ties
were recorded in two precincts with a total 22 voters.)
One
interesting factor in the water board contests was Bob Wren's 48
percent of the vote to Al Nederhood's 52 percent to replace recalled
director Gary Melton, even though Wren, the city's former chief of
police services, opposed the recall. Melton and Bob Kiley were
recalled by more than 70 percent of the vote, and Brooke Jones,
Kiley's replacement, won by 72 percent.
Yorba
Linda voters approved five of 17 state propositions, although 12
passed statewide.
The
differences: the city said no to school bonds, high-income tax
extension, sentencing changes, political spending advisory, gun and
ammo sales restrictions, legalizing pot and banning plastic bags.