SLO County is approaching final election results. Here’s how many ballots are left to be counted

The San Luis Obispo County elections office released second-to-last results Wednesday afternoon, with only about 4,000 ballots left to be counted before election results are finalized next week.

As of 1:40 p.m., the county Clerk’s Office had counted 2,358 votes. Previous voting decline on SaturdayIt almost brought the grand total to 150,106 ballots tabulated and the remaining 3,916 ballots.

At the eleventh hour, some of the tight races that are the focus of this election are as close as ever.

The races for Grover Beach mayor, Paso Robles City Council, Lucia Mar Unified School District, Atascadero City Council and school board were close enough to change even between Wednesday’s drop in voting and final results on Dec. 3.

In Paso Robles, Kris Beal held a steady 125-vote lead over Sharon Roden in the District 1 City Council race, while Steve Gregory held a 306-vote lead over Michael Rivera in the District 3.

In the race for two City Council seats in Atascadero, Seth Peek maintained his lead, followed by Mark Dariz. Tori Keen ranked third, 720 votes behind, at the same level as the previous count, with a difference of 726 votes.

As for the city’s school board, Joey Arnold, Corinne Kuhnle and Jodi Taylor continue to maintain winning spots, with Veronica DeCoster trailing Taylor by 197 votes compared to 192 votes at last count.

In the south, Mike Fuller went from 60 votes to 68 votes Saturday in the race for the Lucia Mar school district Trustee District 4 seat.

In Grover Beach, Kassi Dee gained slightly more points over Debbie Peterson in the mayoral race, marginally increasing her lead to 488 votes from 477 at last count.

Finally, the Lucia Mar school district bond passed the 55% threshold for the first time in this year’s vote count. Templeton’s school bond also maintained its 55.6% approval vote, allowing it to clear the threshold during the final ballot drop. Atascadero was also on its way to victory.

This year’s post-election poll takes longer than usual With more mail-in and provisional ballots available than ever before, each requires an extensive verification process, Clerk-Register Specialist Elaina Cano said.

Clerk-Recorder public information officers Erin Clausen told The Tribune in a statement that the election office received more than 140,000 mail-in votes this election, accounting for 95% of the votes counted so far.

Wednesday’s voting drop was the last update before final certified election results are released on Dec. 3.

The final ballot counting process until then will focus on verifying and counting provisional ballots and those with corrected signatures, Clausen said. These ballots were corrected by the voters who cast their ballots, Clausen said.

Here are the latest numbers on local races for city councils, mayors, school boards and more.

SLO County mayoral and city council races

The frontrunners in terms of number of available seats are shown in bold.

Paso Robles City Council

District 1 seat:

District 3 seat:

Atascadero City Council

mayor of Grover Beach

Grover Beach City Council

District 3 seat:

Recalled District 2 Council Member Dan Rushing:

mayor of Arroyo Grande

Arroyo Grande City Council

District 3 seat:

Mayor of Pismo Beach

Pismo Beach City Council

• Gianni Scangarello, 15.2%

mayor of San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo City Council

School board results

The frontrunners by number of seats shown in bold.

Atascadero school board

Paso Robles school board

Trustee Area 3 seats:

Trustee Area 5 seat:

Trustee Area 6 seat:

Trustee Area 7 seat:

Templeton school board

San Luis Coastal school board

• Erica Flores Baltodano, 71.9%

Cayucos Elementary School Board

Trustee Area 4

Trustee Area 5

Lucia Mar school board

Trustee Area 1

Trustee Area 3

Trustee Area 4

Voting measures

Paso Robles Measure I-24 requires a majority vote to pass:

Pismo Beach Measure F-24 requires a majority vote to pass:

Arroyo Grande Measure E-24 requires a majority vote to pass:

morro bay Measure A-24A majority vote is required to pass:

Grover Beach Measure G-24 requires a majority vote to pass:

Atascadero Measure L-24 requires a majority vote to pass:

Atascadero Measure M-24 requires a majority vote to pass:

Atascadero School District Measure B-24 needs 55% to pass:

Lucia Mar School District Measure H-24 needs 55% to pass:

Templeton School District Measure D-24 needs 55% to pass:

Cambria Community Health District Measure C-24 requires a two-thirds vote to pass, with the simultaneous approval of Proposition 5:

Latest results from CSDs and the Port San Luis Seaport District

Oceano Community Services District

Division 1 seat:

5th Division seat:

Nipomo Community Services District

Port San Luis Seaport District

• Richard Scangarello, 60.6%

Who won the state races?

Congress

District 19

District 24

State Senate

District 17

District 21

State Assembly

District 30

District 37

Did SLO County voters go for Harris or Trump?

Contrary to the election’s nationwide results, San Luis Obispo County voters significantly favored Vice President Kamala Harris over former and future President Donald Trump, according to vote counting.

As of Wednesday’s drop, 53.9 percent of the votes counted went to Harris, compared to 43.0 percent for Trump.

The totals were quite close in 2020, when President Joe Biden received 55.3% of the San Luis Obispo County vote while Trump received 42.2%.