One sitting member of the Dixon City Council and two sitting members of the Dixon Unified School District Board of Trustees appear to have fallen short in re-election bids in the 2026 elections. 

DIXON, CA (MPG) – Incumbency offered no guarantee of success in Dixon elections on Nov. 3.

One sitting member of the Dixon City Council and two sitting members of the Dixon Unified School District Board of Trustees appear to have fallen short in re-election bids in the 2026 elections. 

City Council member Thom Bogue and school board trustees Jewel Fink and John Gabby were on pace to lose as mail-in ballots trickled in.

In the race for the District 2 seat, Bogue was trailing Dixon businesswoman Christina Cerna, 58.33 percent to 41.67 percent. In the District 1 race, incumbent Jim Ernest led Emily Schroeder, 52.76 percent to 47.24 percent. 

In the school board race, sitting board President Julian Cuevas was on track to be re-elected, but Fink and Gabby look as though they’ll be replaced by Phil Lockwood and Michael Monson. Gabby was first elected in 2007 and had served multiple stints as board president, while Fink was initially elected to the board in 2018.

Lockwood led the seven candidates with 16.51 percent of the vote, followed by Cuevas, 16.10 percent, and Monson, 15.75 percent. Fink and Gabby were fourth and fifth at 14.53 and 13.97 percent, respectively, while Cheryl Summers received 12.60 percent and Michael Ceremello Jr. got 10.54 percent. Voters could select up to three candidates.

All totals are through Nov. 6 and have not been certified by the Solano County Registrar of Voters Office. In California, counties must count and report the results from most ballots by the 13th day after the election. The Secretary of State then certifies the results 38 days after the election.

In the race for the 8th Congressional District, John Garamendi led handily over Rudy Recile, 67.20 percent to 32.80 percent. Dixon moves into the 8th District early next year as a result of state redistricting approved under Proposition 50 last year. Dixon residents have been part of the 4th Congressional District for several years. 

In the 11th California Assembly District, incumbent Lori Wilson had a strong lead over Dixon resident Jenny Leilani Callison, 65.68 percent to 34.32 percent.

In the race for Solano County Board of Education Governing Board, Kathryn Kedarisetty led Tamika Hamilton, 55.59 percent to 44.41 percent, for the Area 6 seat, which represents the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Dixon and southeast Vacaville. 

In the race for the 4th District of the Solano County Board of Supervisors, Vacaville City Council member Mike Silva was in front of John Carli, the current mayor of Vacaville, 55.41 percent to 44.59 percent. District 4 includes all of Dixon, a large portion of Vacaville and unincorporated Solano County.

Dixon City Clerk Lupe Ruiz ran unopposed and was re-elected.

Measure E, which would have increased the business license tax on commercial wind turbines and imposed business license taxes on commercial solar energy systems, front-of-the-meter battery energy storage systems, natural gas extraction facilities and data centers for businesses in unincorporated parts of Solano County, was losing handily, 62.52 percent to 37.48 percent.

Measure H, which would have increased the county's hotel tax from 5 percent to 12 percent, also trailed, 64.62 percent to 35.38 percent.