Manteca for the first time since 1980 will not be split between two supervisorial districts when the final vote is counted on Nov. 5.
Manteca — along with Lathrop — is part of the new District 3 seat.
At the time the Board of Supervisors in December 2021 approved the redistricting as required every 10 years based on the US Census, Manteca had 86,000 — or almost 75 percent of 151,967 residents placed within the district.
Lathrop had 28,000 residents at the time. The rest are residents in the Delta region and those in the northwestern portion of the City of Stockton.
No longer is Manteca, or Lathrop, being used to balance out what for decades had been primarily four districts with the lion’s share of residents residing in Stockton.
The only seat on the five-member board not connected with Stockton is District 5.
It includes Mountain House, Tracy, Ripon, Escalon as well as their respective rural areas plus rural south Manteca.
Robert Rickman in the March 5 primary gained a majority of the vote in a three-way race to win that seat outright securing a second four-year term on the board.
The District 3 voting in March had three candidates, none of whom earned a majority of the vote to avoid a runoff.
Former Manteca Mayor garnered 47.5 percent of the vote
Current Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal garnered 44.41 percent of the vote, former Manteca Mayor Steve DeBrum 40.09 percent and Stockton businessperson Angel Sepulveda 15.5 percent.
Dhaliwal and DeBrum advanced onto the Nov. 5 ballot.
All of the current city limits of Manteca are included in the new District 3 as well as areas in the annexation process and most of the area that has a probability of being annexed between now and 2030.
The rural Manteca area north of East Highway 120, east of Austin Road, north of Southland Road and east of Highway 99 including Raymus Village will be in District 5. That means rural areas around Manteca will be represented by three different supervisors as parts of Districts 3, 4 and 5.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
