Tuesday’s election had some surprising preliminary outcomes in local races, perhaps the greatest being the Marin Muncipal Water District Board race: Woodacre resident and incumbent Liza Crosse (who is also an aide to Supervisor Steve Kinsey) lost to challenger Larry Bragman, a Fairfax town councilman, by less than two percentage points (51.24 percent to 48.59 percent). Ms. Crosse nabbed the support of her fellow board members and a host of others, and touted her experience on the water district’s Lagunitas Creek Technical Advisory Committee and a water rate committee. But Mr. Bragman ran as an unapologetically anti-pesticide, anti-herbicide candidate at a time when the district is awaiting an environmental impact report on the potential use of some chemicals to combat invasive plants on district lands; Ms. Crosse said she wanted to wait for the report to take a stance one way or the other. Mr. Bragman also raised fears about a potential pipeline between the East Bay and M.M.W.D. that he said would spur development, though Ms. Crosse stressed it was only meant to be a last resort. Christine Cunha, a forceful challenger vying for one of three spots on Bolinas-Stinson Unified School District’s board, lost to the three incumbents by a small margin, too; she received 20.55 percent of the vote, about two points behind Jennie Pfeiffer (22.45 percent), five behind Steve Marcotte (25.65 percent) and 10.5 behind Nate Siedman (31.05 percent). Measure B, a $9 million bond for the school district that Ms. Cunha, Mr. Siedman and Ms. Pfeiffer supported, failed to garner the required 55 percent of votes to pass (51.71 percent voted against it). Bond supporters said the money could have retrofitted buildings for earthquakes, upgraded the multi-purpose room, improved technology and funded a science lab on campus. But Mr. Marcotte, the only board member who opposed putting the measure on the ballot, argued there needed to be more specifics on how the money would be used. In statewide races, the following candidates won: incumbent Jerry Brown (Governor), incumbent Gavin Newson (Lieutenant Governor), Alex Padilla (Secretary of State), Betty Yee (Controller), John Chiang (Treasurer), incumbent Kamala Harris (Attorney General), incumbent Dave Jones (Insurance Commissioner), Tom Torlakson (Superintendent of Public Instruction) and Jared Huffman (House of Representatives, District 2). Prop 1 (the water bond), Prop 2 (state budget) and Prop 47 (criminal sentencing) passed. But Prop 45 (healthcare insurance), Prop 46 (doctor drug testing) and Prop 47 (Indian gaming) failed. Newcomer Mike McGuire won his race for State Senate, incumbent Marc Levine won State Assembly and Fiona Ma for State Board of Equalization, District 2.