The margin for Fresno City Council District 6 is still razor thin, with just a few hundred votes separating the two contenders after the latest update on Thursday.
Candidates Nick Richardson and Roger Bonakdar will have to wait until next week to get a clearer picture as Fresno County continues to count tens of thousands of ballots.
Where the race stands: According to the latest totals, Richardson leads Bonakdar 50.49% to 49.37% for the northeast Fresno council seat.
- Richardson has 11,658 total votes, putting him ahead of Bonakdar with 11,399 – a difference of only 259 votes.
Flashback: The final election night tally – which was posted early Wednesday morning – had Richardson up by 319.
State of play: Only 2,086 ballots were processed from election day through Thursday in the District 6 race, putting the total at 23,091 votes cast so far.
What we’re watching: Fresno County estimates that it has just under 100,000 ballots to process across the entire county.
- So far 222,324 ballots have been processed.
- The county estimates it has 94,250 vote-by-mail ballots to count, as well as 5,200 conditional voter registration and provisional ballots.
- It is unclear how many of those ballots come from the District 6 area.
Elsewhere: Fresno City Councilmen Garry Bredefeld and Luis Chavez both held commanding leads in their respective races for the Fresno County Board of Supervisors on election night.
- Those leads held steady with Thursday’s update.
- Bredefeld leads District 2 Supervisor Steve Brandau 55.56% to 44.02%, with an advantage of nearly 6,300 votes.
- Chavez leads District 3 Supervisor Sal Quintero 54.83% to 44.80%, an advantage of nearly 2,400 votes.
