Jim Dantona adds to lead in District 2 SLO County supervisor race
Jim Dantona widened his lead in the race for District 2 San Luis Obispo County supervisor after the latest release of primary election vote totals Monday evening.
As of 4:30 p.m., with 11,412 ballots counted, Dantona led the race with 52.5% of the vote over Michael Erin Woody, who was trailing with 47.5% of the vote.
Woody had initially jumped ahead with 102 more votes than Dantona after the first report at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. After all poll ballots were counted early Wednesday morning, Woody had widened his lead to 240 votes.
But the last two releases have flipped that narrative on its head.
By Thursday afternoon, Dantona has surged ahead in the race by 210 votes.
On Monday, that margin grew to a 501-vote advantage.
Nearly 95% of the ballots counted so far were cast by mail. The candidate who wins more than 50% of the vote captures the seat.
The two-candidate race is between Dantona, a local business leader and Democrat, and Woody, a Morro Bay engineer not affiliated with a political party. The contenders are vying to represent the county’s North Coast, includes communities from Los Osos to the Monterey County line.
The winning candidate will replace Supervisor Bruce Gibson, who announced last May that he would not seek reelection in 2026.
The SLO County elections office will continue to report vote results at least twice a week, Erin Clausen, the public information officer for the county Clerk-Recorder’s office, told The Tribune.
As of Monday, Clausen said there were 48,606 unprocessed ballots still to be counted. The next count is expected Tuesday and will include around 7,500 ballots. Clausen said the bulk of unprocessed ballots will need to be counted by next week, per state law.
According to a new state law, counties are required to have the bulk of all tabulation done by June 15, though provisional ballots and those needing signature cures will continue to be counted past that date, Clausen said.
The deadline for county elections officials to certify election results is July 2.
This story was originally published June 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM.
