SLO County election results: What you missed while you were sleeping

While you were sleeping, San Luis Obispo County voters delivered tight races for two supervisor seats and clear advances for incumbents in congressional and Assembly contests.

See where the numbers stood early Wednesday morning, though more ballots still remain to count in the coming days.

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• District 2 supervisor: Morro Bay engineer Michael Erin Woody held a slim lead over Democrat Jim Dantona, 51.9% to 48.1%, separated by just 240 votes with 100% of precincts reporting, in the race to replace retiring Supervisor Bruce Gibson on the North Coast.
• District 4 supervisor: Democratic incumbent Jimmy Paulding led Republican challenger Adam Verdin 52.3% to 47.7%, a margin of 386 votes, in a race that narrowed slightly as early mail-in ballots were tallied.
• Clerk-recorder: Incumbent Elaina Cano grabbed a commanding lead with 61.1% of the vote, followed by Vanessa Rozo at 27.4% and Gaea Powell at 11.5%, in the race for SLO County’s top elections official.
• 30th Assembly District: Democrat Dawn Addis led with 53.1%, while Republican Shannon Kessler was second with 38.1% and Democrat Susannah Brown trailed at 8.8%, positioning Addis and Kessler to advance to the November general election.
• 37th Assembly District: Democratic incumbent Gregg Hart surged ahead with 59.8% over Republican challenger Sari Domingues at 40.2%. Both will advance to November because only two candidates ran.
• 24th Congressional District: Democratic Rep. Salud Carbajal led with 52.5% of the vote, with Republican Bob Smith next at 39.5%, setting up a likely Carbajal-Smith matchup in the district that runs from Cayucos south through Santa Barbara and part of Ventura counties.
• 19th Congressional District: Democratic Rep. Jimmy Panetta was well ahead with 58.3% in the six-candidate field, with Republican Peter Coe Verbica second at 22.8%, in the L-shaped district that runs from southern San Jose to northern SLO County.
• What’s next: Result may still change significantly. The San Luis Obispo County elections office will continue to count remaining mail-in and conditional ballots in the coming days, with the deadline to certify results set for July 2.

The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.

This story was originally published June 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM.