West Marin is grappling with the results of Tuesday’s election, in which Donald J. Trump won a second term as president in a remarkable and uncharted resurgence to the nation’s highest office. Surmounting a criminal conviction, two impeachments, multiple indictments and an assassin’s bullet, the former president’s return marks a repudiation of the status quo.

Although some votes remain uncounted, virtually every corner of the country has swung toward Trump, including liberal strongholds like Marin County. Here, Kamala Harris maintained a commanding 80 percent of the vote to Trump’s 18 percent, yet this marked nearly a three-point drop from President Biden’s 2020 numbers.

Down the ballot, Democrats maintained a strong showing in key races. Representative Adam Schiff, a veteran Democratic congressman, won California’s Senate seat, defeating Steve Garvey, a former Los Angeles Dodgers player and political newcomer. Representative Jared Huffman secured a sixth term representing California’s Second Congressional District, while Assemblyman Damon Connolly prevailed over Republican challenger Andy Podshadley in the 12th District assembly race.

Local contests favored incumbents and their endorsed candidates. Tomales resident Jill Manning Sartori, backed by incumbent Clairette Wilson, won the Marin County Board of Education’s Area 7 seat by a solid 10-point margin over Denise Bohman of Forest Knolls. In the Shoreline Unified School District race, incumbent Thomas Tyson retained his seat decisively, securing a commanding 75-point lead over challenger and musician Buddy Faure of Inverness.

In a closely watched North Marin Water District race for Division 1, Ken Eichstaedt, an Olema resident and civil engineer who has been filling a temporary vacancy on the board, handily defeated Mary Stompe, a Novato resident with an accounting and business background. Mr. Eichstaedt’s victory is notable, as West Marin accounts for only 20 percent of Division 1’s voters, with the remaining majority in Novato, where Ms. Stompe’s mother-in-law once served as mayor. With his win, West Marin will maintain representation on the board.

As county election officials continue counting provisional ballots, recent updates indicate that both Measure Q and Measure R, benefiting the Stinson Beach Fire Protection District, passed with overwhelming support of 93 percent and 80 percent, respectively. The latter measure introduces a parcel tax that will generate $700,000 annually, enabling the district to increase salaries, reduce turnover and manage a rising workload more effectively.

Measure C, proposing a $390 parcel tax to upgrade facilities for the Bolinas-Stinson Union School District, teeters on the edge of approval with 69 percent, just over the required two-thirds threshold.

In Sonoma County, Measure J, aimed at limiting large farms, is likely to face a significant defeat, with early returns showing 85 percent opposed.

Statewide, Californians voted to affirm gay marriage rights through Prop. 3 and passed Prop. 35, which channels revenue from a health care provider tax to low-income health programs. 

They also approved Prop. 36, which overturns parts of a past initiative that reduced penalties for certain drug and theft crimes, increasing punishment for repeat offenders while cutting funding for mental health and addiction treatment programs.

Props 2 and 4, which each authorize $10 billion in bonds—one for school facilities and infrastructure, the other for climate resilience projects benefiting low-income communities—are likely to pass. 

Early returns show voters rejecting Prop. 33, which would expand rent control, and Prop. 5, a measure aimed at lowering the threshold for passing affordable housing bonds from a two-thirds majority to a 55-percent majority. Prop. 6, which sought to remove the allowance for forced labor in California prisons from the state constitution, and Prop. 32, proposing an $18 minimum wage, are also likely headed for defeat.