More election results just came out. See status of key SLO County races
Yet another round of election results were released Monday evening, with leads widening across most races, including the close contests for county supervisor in District 2 and District 4.
Other races like the clerk-recorder’s face-off and who will appear on the General Election ballot in November for Congress and the state Assembly have remained largely unchanged from Election Night.
See a roundup of all the latest vote totals below.
Note: These are still subject to change in the coming days as more vote-by-mail and conditional ballots are counted. The county has until July 2 to certify the election.
Dantona pulls ahead in tight race for District 2
Dantona grew his lead for District 2 San Luis Obispo County supervisor after the latest release of results Monday.
With 10,165 ballots counted in the district, he led with 52.5% of the vote over Woody, who trailed with 47.5%.
The two were now separated by 501 votes, significantly widening Dantona’s lead after he jumped into the front during the previous count.
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.
Paulding continues to lead in District 4 against Verdin
Jimmy Paulding also continued his lead in the race for District 4 San Luis Obispo County supervisor after the latest round of results was released Thursday afternoon.
With 12,719 votes counted, Paulding led with 54.4% of the vote over Adam Verdin, who trailed with 45.6%.
The race continued to widen Paulding’s lead, with the two now separated by 1,115 votes.
The race is between Democrat Paulding, the one-term incumbent who is trying to keep his spot on the board, and Republican Verdin, a political newcomer and longtime local business owner, who is aiming to replace him as the District 4 supervisor.
The candidate who gets more than 50% of the vote wins the seat.
Clerk-recorder Elaina Cano stays well ahead in race for county’s top elections official
Elaina Cano held onto her sizable lead in the race for San Luis Obispo County clerk-recorder as of Monday’s results drop.
With 49,652 ballots counted, Cano led with 64.6% of the vote, followed by Vanessa Rozo with 25.6% and Gaea Powell with 9.9%.
Cano needs to top 50% of the vote to win the seat outright and prevent a runoff in November.
The clerk-recorder is the top elections official in SLO County, in charge of voter registration, coordinating poll workers, overseeing ballot tabulation and reporting race results.
The nonpartisan office is also in charge of county records and documents, including marriage licenses, birth and death certificates and property recordings.
Cano, the incumbent, has held the seat since 2021. She’s opposed by Rozo, a local business owner and paralegal from Grover Beach, and Powell, a former Arroyo Grande mayoral candidate who currently faces a trial for eight felony charges of election and voter fraud.
Salud Carbajal, Jimmy Panetta advance in races for SLO County Congress seats
Two incumbent members of Congress representing San Luis Obispo County are already advancing to the General Election.
As of Monday, the latest round of results from the Secretary of State’s Office continued to show Democrat Rep. Jimmy Panetta well ahead in the race for the 19th Congressional District seat with 59.5% of the vote, trailed by Republicans Peter Coe Verbica with 21.2% and Democrat Sean Dougherty with 10.3%.
They were followed by Republican Tuka Gafari with 6%, Ana Luz Acevedo-Cabrera (no party preference) with 1.5%, Libertarian Lars Mapstead with 1.1% and Tomas Coxe (no party preference) with 0.5%.
The crowded race contains six candidates who are vying to replace Panetta and represent the L-shaped district that runs from southern San Jose to northern SLO County.
If the margins hold, Panetta would face Verbica in November.
In San Luis Obispo County specifically, voters favored the incumbent as well, with Panetta bringing in 43.6% of the 19,031 votes cast in the race, followed by Verbica (33.1%), Gafari (15.9%), Dougherty (4.4%), Acevedo-Cabrera (1.2%), Lars Mapstead (1%) and Coxe (0.9%).
In the race for the 24th Congressional District, incumbent Democrat Salud Carbajal was well ahead with 54.2% of the vote as of Monday, after the latest release of results from the Secretary of State’s Office. Republican Bob Smith was next with 36.6%, followed by Democrat Sarah Bacon at 7.1% and Peace and Freedom candidate Helena Pasquarella at 2.1%.
If these margins hold, Smith would move on to face Carbajal in the General Election, attempting to beat an incumbent who’s held his seat for the past decade in a House district that spans from Cayucos south through Santa Barbara County and part of Ventura County.
As in District 19, San Luis Obispo County voters favored the incumbent here as well, with Carbajal bringing in 53.9% of the 35,998 local votes counted as of Monday, followed by Smith (39.7%), Bacon (4.8%) and Pasquarella (1.7%).
The top-two vote-getters in each district will advance to the general election in November.
Dawn Addis, Shannon Kessler ahead in race for SLO County’s main Assembly District
Dawn Addis continued as the top vote-getter in the race for San Luis Obispo County’s main State Assembly District after the latest release of vote totals on Monday.
In second place was Republican Shannon Kessler with 35.6% of the vote and poised to advance to November if the margins hold.
After the most recent release of vote totals, Addis, a Democrat, was well ahead in the race to see who will compete for the 30th Assembly District seat in November, with 55.4% of the vote, according to the California Secretary of State’s office. Trailing in third was Democrat Susannah Brown at 9%.
The top-two finishers will advance to the General Election in November.
Kessler is the founder of the local Save Girls Sports campaign, and Brown is the former chair of the South County Chambers of Commerce.
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, Addis was ahead with 49% of the local vote, followed by Kessler with 44.3% and Brown with 6.6%.
Over in the race for California’s 37th Assembly District — which includes a small piece of southern SLO County — incumbent Gregg Hart was still well ahead with 63.2% of the vote as of Monday. His only challenger, Sari Domingues, was trailing with 36.8% of the vote.
Because there are only two candidates, both will advance to the General Election in November.
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.
Among San Luis Obispo County voters, Domingues was still slightly ahead with 51.6% of the vote, while Hart was trailing with 48.4% of the local vote as of Monday.
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SLO County agent is one of top vote-getters for CA insurance commissioner
A longtime San Luis Obispo County insurance agent who’s running to be California’s next insurance commissioner was still sitting in third place for the statewide seat on Monday.
Out of 11 candidates, Grover Beach resident and Republican Stacy Korsgaden had 16.3% of the vote, trailing State Sen. Ben Allen, a Santa Monica Democrat, who’s in second place with 19.6%.
Jane Kim, a Democrat and former San Francisco supervisor, is the current top-vote getter with 25.8% as of Thursday, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
The top-two finishers will move on to the November election.
The state insurance commissioner is in charge of regulating California’s property insurance market — the largest in the nation — including approving home and auto rate increases and upholding consumer protections.
The job has taken on more significance after several major insurers stopped issuing new homeowners policies in California following years of destructive wildfires, compounded by climate change.
Korsgaden has run an insurance agency in SLO County since 1988 and received a boost in the race when the California Republican Party endorsed her earlier this year.
What happens next?
The SLO County elections office will continue to report 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 deadline.
The deadline for county elections officials to certify election results is July 2.
This story was originally published June 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM.
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