Live update: Fresno nears finish of vote counting. See which races remain undecided
Fresno County has tallied all but about 13,200 votes from last week’s presidential election, bringing a little more clarity to some local contests that have been too close to call for more than a week.
But there remain a few races with razor-thin margins that mathematically may still hang in the balance, depending on where within the county the remaining uncounted votes came from.
Those now include a Fresno City Council race in which two candidates are separated by 849 votes out of more than 30,000 cast; a $698 million school bond measure for the State Center Community College District, which is winning across four counties but by a scant 488 votes out of more than 332,000 votes counted so far; and a $20 million school bond measure for the Kingsburg Joint Union High School District, which is 37 votes shy of the 55% majority vote needed for passage.
The uncounted votes across Fresno County don’t include ballots for which the voter either didn’t sign their return envelope or the signature doesn’t match voter registration records. People have until Dec. 1 to submit a “cure” letter to resolve any signature issues for their ballots to be counted.
Turnout countywide now stands at about 62.6%, well under the benchmark of almost 75% from the 2020 presidential election. A total of almost 307,000 ballots have been processed and counted as of Friday evening out of about 511,300 registered voters.
Here’s a complete list of results charts for the contested city council races, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, school boards and school bonds, other municipal ballot measures, and special district boards of directors.
