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Two congressional incumbents in Tri-Counties win new terms

Element 5 Digital

Democratic Congressman Salud Carbajal of Santa Barbara, Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley of Westlake Village top challengers.

It will be back to Washington, D.C. for new terms for two members of Congress from the Tri-Counties.

Democratic Congressman Salud Carbajal of Santa Barbara and Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownley of Westlake Village won new terms.

Carbajal defeated Republican challenger Thomas Cole by a 63% to 37% margin to keep his 24th District seat for a fifth term.

And Brownley won her seventh term for the 26th Congressional seat, topping Republican Michael Koslow by a 54% to 46% margin.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.