The final election results are here. See who won in SLO County

San Luis Obispo County’s elections office has released the final results of the election on Tuesday afternoon, officially determining who won the various school board, mayor and city council races across the county.

In total, the county Clerk-Recorder’s Office counted a grand total of 153,432 ballots this election, garnering a voter turnout of 84%, second only to the record-breaking 88.4% who voted in the 2020 presidential election.

With the vote count taking longer than usual and a number of local races neck-and-neck until the eleventh hour, the final results came down to the last ballot count.

In the race for the District 1 seat on Paso Robles City Council, Kris Beal won by 126 votes over Sharon Roden. Steve Gregory beat out Michael Rivera for the District 3 seat.

In Atascadero, Seth Peek and Mark Dariz will fill two seats on City Council, after Tori Keen was unable to close a margin of more than 700 votes.

Joey Arnold, Corinne Kuhnle and Jodi Taylor will join the Atascadero school board. After originally being in the running, Veronica DeCoster fell to fourth place and lost to Taylor by 223 votes.

Down south, Mike Fuller took Lucia Mar school district’s Trustee Area 4 seat by only 74 votes.

In Grover Beach, Kassi Dee will be the city’s next mayor, beating Debbie Peterson by 505 votes, the widest margin the race had seen the whole election.

Finally, three school bonds — in the Lucia Mar, Atascadero, and Templeton school districts — all passed with approvals just barely above the 55% threshold.

In total, the elections office received more than 141,000 mail-in ballots this election — over 92% of the total ballots received. That leaves just under 8% of people who voted in person at the polls on election day, or about 12,200 ballots.

Tuesday’s results were final. Now, the official reports will be sent to the Secretary of State’s Office, which will certify the election on Dec. 13.

Here are the final totals on who won local races for city councils, mayors, school boards and more in SLO County.

SLO County mayoral and city council races

The winning candidates are in bold.

Paso Robles City Council

District 1 seat:

• Kris Beal, 43.8%
• Sharon Roden, 39.3%
• Linda George, 16.8%

District 3 seat:

• Steve Gregory, 43.5%
• Michael Rivera, 35.5%
• Jeff Carr, 21.0%

Atascadero City Council

2 open seats:

• Seth Peek, 35.3%
• Mark Dariz, 34.0%
• Tori Keen, 30.7%

Grover Beach mayor

• Kassi Dee, 43.5%
• Debbie Peterson, 34.8%
• Robert Robert, 21.7%

Grover Beach City Council

District 3 seat:

• Kathy McCorry, 52.9%
• Marsha Bolyanatz, 47.1%

District 2 recall of Councilmember Dan Rushing:

• Yes, 55.4%
• No, 44.6%

Arroyo Grande mayor

• Caren Ray Russom, 64.3%
• Gaea Powell, 35.7%

Arroyo Grande City Council

District 3 seat:

• Jamie Maraviglia, 56.3%
• Marlea Harmon, 43.8%

Pismo Beach mayor

• Ed Waage, 64.6%
• Kevin Kreowski, 35.4%

Pismo Beach City Council

2 open seats:

• Scott Newton, 48.2%
• Marcia Guthrie, 36.6%
• Gianni Scangarello, 15.2%

San Luis Obispo mayor

• Erica Stewart, 84.3%
• Donald Hedrick, 15.7%

San Luis Obispo City Council

2 open seats:

• Jan Marx, 36.9%
• Mike Boswell, 34.2%
• John Drake, 18.3%
• Felicia Lewis, 10.6%

School board results

The winning candidates are in bold.

Atascadero school board

3 open seats:

• Joey Arnold, 23.0%
• Corinne Kuhnle, 20.7%
• Jodi Taylor, 20.2%
• Veronica DeCoster, 19.6%
• Matt Pennon, 16.5%

Paso Robles school board

Trustee Area 3 seat:

• Nathan Williams, 63.1%
• Hunter Breese, 36.9%

Trustee Area 5 seat:

• Laurene McCoy, 54.9%
• Tim Gearhart, 45.1%

Trustee Area 6 seat:

• Leo Castillo, 52.7%
• Adelita Hiteshew, 47.3%

Trustee Area 7 seat:

• Kenney Enney, 60.2%
• Tracy Dauterman, 39.8%

Templeton school board

3 open seats:

• Matt Allison, 27.7%
• Ted Dubost, 27.6%
• Cheryl Parks, 26.6%
• Jason Tesarz, 18.1%

San Luis Coastal school board

• Erica Flores Baltodano, 71.9%
• Eve Hinton, 28.1%

Cayucos Elementary school board

Trustee Area 4

• Peter Schuler, 57.0%
• Scott Smith, 43.0%

Trustee Area 5

• Dan Puett, 76.4%
• Susan Brownell, 23.6%

Lucia Mar school board

Trustee Area 1

• Don Stewart, 53.8%
• Paul Bischoff, 46.2%

Trustee Area 3

• Dee Santos, 53.0%
• Paul Hively, 47.0%

Trustee Area 4

• Mike Fuller, 50.6%
• Vicki Meagher, 49.4%

Ballot measures

Morro Bay Measure A-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 59.9%
• No, 40.1%

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

• Yes, 56.6%
• No, 43.4%

Cambria Community Healthcare District’s Measure C-24, needs a two-thirds vote and the simultaneous approval of Proposition 5 to pass:

• Yes, 76.8%
• No, 23.2%

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

• Yes, 55.7%
• No, 44.3%

Arroyo Grande Measure E-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 65.0%
• No, 35.0%

Pismo Beach Measure F-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 62.5%
• No, 37.5%

Grover Beach Measure G-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 64.6%
• No, 35.4%

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

• Yes, 55.3%
• No, 44.7%

Paso Robles Measure I-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 54.4%
• No, 45.6%

Atascadero Measure L-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 70.7%
• No, 29.3%

Atascadero Measure M-24, needs majority vote to pass:

• Yes, 49.2%

• No, 50.8%

Final results from CSDs and Port San Luis Harbor District

The winning candidates are in bold.

Oceano Community Services District

Division 1 seat:

• Linda Austin, 78.5%
• Angela Smith, 21.5%

Division 5 seat:

• Shirley Gibson, 57.6%
• Charles Varni, 42.4%

Nipomo Community Services District

2 open seats:

• John Joyce, 51.6%
• Philip Henry, 37.9%
• James Wejrowki, 10.6%

Port San Luis Harbor District

• Richard Scangarello, 60.7%
• Katie Lichtig, 39.3%

Who won state races?

The winning candidates are in bold.

Congress

District 19

• Jimmy Panetta, 69.3%
• Jason Anderson, 30.7%

District 24

• Salud Carbajal, 62.7%
• Thomas Cole, 37.3%

State Senate

District 17

• John Laird, 65.0%
• Tony Virrueta, 35.0%

District 21

• Monique Limon, 63.3%
• Elijack Mack, 36.7%

State Assembly

District 30

• Dawn Addis, 62.4%
• Dalila Epperson, 37.6%

District 37

• Gregg Hart, 60.7%
• Sari Domingues, 39.3%

Did SLO County voters favor 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 the vote count.

As of the final election results on Tuesday, 53.9% of ballots counted were cast for Harris, compared to Trump’s 43.0%.

The totals were pretty close 2020, when President Joe Biden took home 55.3% of the San Luis Obispo County vote, while Trump garnered 42.2%.

This story was originally published December 3, 2024 at 3:28 PM with the headline "The final election results are here. See who won in SLO County."

Chloe Shrager

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Chloe Shrager is the courts and crimes reporter for The Tribune. She grew up in Palo Alto, California, and graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in Political Science. When not writing, she enjoys surfing, backpacking, skiing and hanging out with her cat, Billy Goat.