Dawn Addis jumps ahead in race for SLO County’s main Assembly District
Dawn Addis jumped ahead in the race for San Luis Obispo County’s main State Assembly District after the first release of vote totals on Tuesday night.
As of 8:06 p.m., after the first release of vote totals, Addis, a Democrat, led the race for the 30th Assembly District seat with 51.7% of the vote, according to the California Secretary of State’s office. Republican Shannon Kessler was trailing with 40% of the vote, while Susannah Brown was at 8.3%.
Incumbent Addis is competing against Brown, the former chair of the South County Chambers of Commerce, and Republican Kessler, the founder of the local Save Girls Sports campaign.
The eventual winner of the three-way race will represent portions of San Luis Obispo, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.
In San Luis Obispo County specifically, Kessler was slightly ahead with 47.8% of the local vote, followed by Addis and Brown, with 45.7% and 6.5%, respectively.
Over in the race for California’s 37th Assembly District — which includes a small piece of southern SLO County — incumbent Gregg Hart surged ahead with 60.1% of the vote as of 8:06 p.m., with only the initial count of early mail-in ballots tallied. The only other challenger, Sari Domingues, was trailing with 39.9% of the vote.
Domingues, a Republican and retired business analyst, is attempting to unseat Hart, a Democrat, who’s held the seat since he was first elected in 2022. The duo previously faced off in the 2024 general election when Hart won with just over 60% of the vote.
The top-two finishers in both races will advance to the general election in November.
Among San Luis Obispo County voters, Hart led with 61% of the local vote, followed by Domingues with 39%.
Following the first vote results at 8 p.m., updated San Luis Obispo County vote totals will continue to drop about every two hours until all poll ballots have been counted, according to Erin Clausen, the public information officer for the SLO County Clerk-Recorder’s Office. Statewide result drops will vary.
The deadline for county elections officials to certify election results is July 2.
