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# SD County Registrar: Highest Midterm Turnout in 36 Years
- URL: https://ivn.us/sd-county-registrar-highest-midterm-turnout-36-years/
- Published: 2018-12-07T18:01:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T20:05:30.000Z
- Author: Jeff Powers
- Tags: News

**San Diego, Calif.-** The San Diego County Registrar of Voters has [finished counting](http://www.livevoterturnout.com/SanDiego/LiveResults/en/Index%5F5.html?ref=ivn.us) votes from the November midterm election.

County Registrar Michael Vu's office announced voter turnout totaling 66.4 percent. It marked the highest the county has seen in a midterm election since 1982.

For some perspective, voters turned out at 81.5 percent during the 2016 November Presidential election.

### **Highlights Included:**

\-New County Board of Supervisors including Nathan Fletcher, who finished with a resounding victory over Bonnie Dumanis. Fletcher received 67 percent of the vote. Jim Desmond took the District 5 seat, beating Michelle Gomez with 56 percent of the vote.

\-San Diego City Council District 8 went to Vivian Moreno who beat San Ysidro school board member Antonio Martinez by 549 votes.

\-It was a historically tough election for City Council incumbents. The City of San Diego has new council members for districts 2 and 4\. Former Dr. Jennifer Campbell beat incumbent Lorie Zapf in District 2 with nearly 58 percent of the vote. District 4 went to Monica Montgomery who defeated incumbent and Council President Myrtle Cole with 57 percent of the vote. The new council will be sworn in at 10 a.m. Dec. 10.

\-And San Diego voters approved Measure G, the SDSU West initiative. The final tally was 54 percent yes. The SocceryCity initiative, Measure E, finished with just 32 percent voting yes.