As of 4:21 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 23, the final results for Assembly District (AD) 47 seat in the California Assembly remained too close to call.

Christy Holstege, the Democratic candidate, continued to lead her Republican opponent, Greg Wallis. But with about 168,000 ballots counted within the whole district, Holstege’s election night lead of nearly 10,000 votes has eroded to 52 votes. She has 50.02% of the ballots counted.

There is no automatic recount for elections in California. Any registered voter may request a recount but would have to pay for it if there were no change in the results. Requests for recounts may be by county or precinct.

Within Riverside County, Holstege has a 10,421-vote lead with slightly more than 134,000 ballots counted. But the San Bernardino portion of the district, which is about 30% of the total district voters, is strongly supporting Wallis. In San Bernardino, where 37,400 ballots for AD 47 have been counted, Wallis has outpolled Holstege by 10,369 votes.

In the San Bernardino County portion of the district, voters registered as Republican exceeded Democratic registered voters by 10,319. Since Wallis’ margin exceeds that, some Democrats and voters with no party preference chose him over Holstege.

Wallis’ percentage of votes in each county far exceeds the number of registered Republicans. For example, in San Bernardino, 43.4% of registered voters are Republican; however, Wallis’ share of the San Bernardino vote is 63.8%. While the voters who registered Democrat numbered 29%, Holstege garnered only 36.2% of that vote.

The same relationship is true in Riverside County. Holstege’s share of total votes was only 10.6% more than the percentage of Democrat voters. However, Wallis’ share of votes was 15.3% greater than the Republican registered voters.

And in Riverside County, Democratic registered voters in AD 47 are 43% of the total voters and exceed Republican registered voters by 30,000. Yet, Holstege has gotten only 54% of the county’s vote and her margin is a third of the Democratic advantage in registered voters.

Turnout

Riverside County has about 4,000 ballots from Election Day Nov. 8 to be counted. About 3,000 of these ballots are provisional. Based on total ballots already counted and the uncounted ballots, total turnout in Riverside County appears to have been about 45.9%.

San Bernardino County has about 10,000 ballots to count. However, it is unknown how many are from AD 47. Turnout for each race could be different because some voters may leave that choice blank or write in a candidate.

Turnout in this district in both counties is about the same. In Riverside County, the turnout was 54.8% and it was 52.4% in San Bernardino County.

House of Representatives

The local Congressional race for District 41, which includes the Hill neighborhoods, had national implications. After the initial ballot count Tuesday night, Democratic challenger Will Rollins had a 9,000-vote lead over incumbent U.S Congressman Ken Calvert. By Thursday morning, Calvert had taken the lead from Rollins and it has slowly but steadily grown. With about 243,000 votes cast, Calvert’s lead is about 11,000 votes. He has 52.4% of the counted votes.

In this district, the number of registered voters is 463,351 and turnout, based on ballots counted, has been about 52.5%. Total county turnout appears to be about 45.9%, including the uncounted ballots.

This was a very competitive race. Both candidates collected more than $3.3 million in contributions by Oct. 19. Data for the weeks leading up to Election Day have not been reported.

Other state legislative races

Eduardo Garcia, the Democratic assemblyman, maintains a lead over his Republican opponent Ian Weeks for the District 36 seat, which includes Garner Valley.

Garcia’s total districtwide vote count is 53.3%. Within the entire district his lead is about 6,060 votes over Weeks. Within just Riverside County, Garcia and Weeks are much closer. Only 656 votes separate Weeks from Garcia, who has about a 5,800-vote lead in the Imperial County portion of the district.

The first announcement of the votes counted for the 32nd State Senate District had Republican Assemblyman Kelly Seyarto leading Democrat Brian Nash. Since election night, Seyarto has continued to build on his lead. As of Monday, he had 61.8% (about 182,800 votes) out of nearly 295,000 votes counted in the four counties that comprise the district.

Riverside County makes up about 80% of the district, which includes portions of Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino counties.

Local county races

As more votes have been counted, the status of the race for Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) commissioner remains unchanged from election night. With 1,314 votes counted for the three IFPD seats, challenger Stephanie Yost is still first, ahead of incumbent Commissioner Rhonda Andrewson by 96 votes. Commissioner Dan Messina is third followed by Commission President Henry Sawicki, who trails Messina by 59 votes for the third seat and appears to have been upset.

In the Hemet Unified School District race for District 7, which includes the Hill communities, former law enforcement officer Jeremy Parsons leads incumbent Megan Haley and challenger Al Fernandes. Parsons has a 716-vote lead over Haley with about 6,900 ballots counted.

In the only Riverside County office race, challenger Brian Benoit has expanded his lead over incumbent Paul Angulo. On Monday, Benoit had 54.3% of the vote and about a 41,000-vote lead over Angulo (45.7%).

In the race for 5th District supervisor, incumbent and board President Jeff Hewitt still trails his challenger Yxstian Gutierrez, Moreno Valley mayor, by nearly 7,400 votes with 100,700 counted. About 39.6% of registered voters in the district cast ballots.

Statewide

The Democrats swept the statewide races. Every Democratic candidate from Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials, including U.S. Senate, are still ahead. With the exception of Malia M. Cohen, Democrat for Controller, all of the Democratic statewide candidates have garnered at least 59% of the vote. Cohen, with a lead of more than 1 million votes, had 55.5% of votes in her race.

So, Newsom, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Attorney General Rob Bonta, Treasurer Fiona Ma and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara were all reelected. Incumbent Tony K. Thurmond will continue as superintendent of Public Instruction.

And Sen. Alex Padilla won his election to finish the term of former senator Vice President Kamala Harris, and won his re-election for a full term beginning in January with 61.2% of the vote.

However, in Riverside County, the majority of voters favored the Republican candidate in all of these races. The Republican advantage in Riverside County will not be nearly sufficient to offset statewide results.

Propositions

The most recent statewide vote counts have not changed the results for the propositions on the ballot. Three (Props 1, 28 and 31) appear headed for approval and four (26, 27, 29 and 30) are losing.

California voters overwhelming declined Prop 27, the online sports wagering measure. So far, 82.3% of voters chose “No” for Prop 27. Its rival, Prop 26, the sports wagering on Tribal lands, garnering only 67% “No” votes, also appears defeated.

Prop 29, the kidney dialysis proposition, could only capture support from 31.6% of voters, the third consecutive defeat for a dialysis measure.

Prop 1, the reproductive freedom amendment to the state constitution, received a “Yes” from 66.9% of voters. Both Prop 31, prohibition on sale of flavored tobacco products, and Prop 28, directing more funding to art and music education in schools, each garnered more than 63% support.

The closest proposition contest is Prop 30, the tax on high incomes to fund zero-emission vehicles, is trailing with 57.7% opposed.