Update: Kenney Enney expands early lead in Paso Robles school board election
Candidate Kenney Enney expanded his lead in the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District Board of Education special election as Election Day drew to a close.
Voters had Enney leading with 51.34% — 5,009 votes — as of 10:40 p.m., according to the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder’s Office and Monterey County elections office.
Angela Hollander was trailing behind with 48.66%, or 4,747 votes.
That left Enney with a 262-vote lead.
About 30,700 San Luis Obispo County voters were registered to cast a ballot in the special election. The school district also extends partly into southern Monterey County with 171 registered voters there, according to its elections office.
The election night results accounted for all of the vote-by-mail ballots received before Tuesday’s election, as well as a portion of those cast on Election Day.
As of 10:40 p.m., 10 of the 18 precincts were reporting, according to the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. Monterey County had counted 58 ballots as of 8 p.m., its website showed.
The remaining ballots are expected to be counted and results released by the county elections offices late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.
The special election for a seat on the seven-member school board comes after Enney was ousted from his appointed position in December by a community-led petition.
This story was originally published April 18, 2023 at 8:14 PM.
