Lead For Wallis Now More Than 2-Thousand Votes In CA 47th Assembly District Race
As of 6 a-m Thursday Nov 14th 2024. Riverside County has 1,372,289 registered voters. 897,440 ballots have been counted so far. 125,480 people voted in person. 765,882 people voted by mail. 6,078 people dropped off their mail-in ballots at a vote center.
Voter turnout is at 65.4%. In the Nov 2020 Election, Voter turnout was 81%
25,000 Vote-by-Mail and 35,000 Conditional ballots remain to be counted. That’s 60,000 ballots to be counted. 2-thousand of those are damaged ballots. 14,900 of those have incorrect signatures on the envelope or the voter failed to sign the envelope. The next updated results will be posted at 6:00pm on Thursday 11/14/2024
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CA Assembly 47th District in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
Greg Wallis has extended his lead over Christy Holstege by 2,044 votes, 50% to 49%, with Holstege winning by 9,786 votes in Riverside County…53 to 47%, while Wallis is leading by 11,840 votes …63 to 36% in San Bernardino County. Riverside County has 60-thousand ballots left to count, and San Bernardino County has 159,050 ballots left to count.
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Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris and heads back to the White House. Trump won 31 of the 58 counties in California, but Harris won the popular vote and the 54 electoral votes.
Adam Schiff, a vocal adamant critic of Donald Trump, easily defeated Steve Garvey to win a U S Senate seat for the partial term for the remainder of 2024 and the full term starting in January 2025.
Raul Ruiz has been reelected to the 25th Congressional District seat, winning easily in Riverside and Imperial Counties to get the win. Ian Weeks had more votes in San Bernardino County.
In the 41st Congressional District race, Ken Calvert leads Will Rollins 51% to 48%, by 10,066 votes.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been reelected again in California’s 43rd Congressional District in Los Angeles. Waters is 86 years old, has been in Congress for 34 years.
CA State Senate in the new 19th District Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Interesting result here.
Rosilie Ochoa Bogh has defeated Lisa Middleton.
Middleton did well in Riverside County winning 52 to 48 %
Ochoa Bogh won 62 to 37% in San Bernardino County.
Overall, Bogh leads Middleton 54% to 46%.
CA Assembly 36th District–Riverside, Imperial and San Bernardino Counties
Jeff Gonzalez leads Joey Acuna Jr 51% to 48% …by 3,086 votes.
Acuna has a lead of 52 to 47% in Imperial County, while Gonzalez has a lead of 52 to 47% in Riverside County, and Gonzalez has a lead of 63 to 36% in San Bernardino County where a total of 1,625 people voted.
Incumbent Eduardo Garcia did not seek reelection
CA Assembly 47th District in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
Greg Wallis has extended his lead over Christy Holstege by 2,044 votes, 50% to 49%, with Holstege winning by 9,786 votes in Riverside County…53 to 47%, while Wallis is leading by 11,840 votes …63 to 36% in San Bernardino County. Riverside County has 60-thousand ballots left to count, and San Bernardino County has 159,050 ballots left to count.
Judge –Riverside County Superior Court, Elizabeth Tucker cruises to a win over Gerald Pfohl.
Desert Community College Board, the winners are Mary Jane Sanchez, Ron Oden and Mark Meyer.
Rita Lamb and Nancy Ross both won re-election to the City Council in Cathedral City. Ross was unopposed.
Steven Hernandez is the winner of the race for Mayor of Coachella, defeating Frank Figueroa.
Denise Delgado was reelected to the Coachella City Council.
Yadira Perez was elected to the Coachella City Council.
Scott Matas leads Russell Betts by 646 votes in the race for Mayor in Desert Hot Springs.
City Council Desert Hot Springs, District 2, Roger Nunez is in front of Daniel Pitts by 1 vote…1,182 to 1,181.
City Council District 4 in DHS, Dirk Voss has defeated Gary Carroll.
Indian Wells, City Council winners are Greg Sanders, Toper Taylor, and Brian Penna.
Indio City Council….Glenn Miller ran unopposed so he wins reelection to the District 1 City Council seat.
Indio City Council District 5, Ben Guitron has defeated Lupe Ramos Amith.
In La Quinta, Linda Evans had no problem being reelected as Mayor.
Two familiar names have been reelected to the La Quinta City Council, incumbents Steve Sanchez and Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
Palm Desert City Council, the new Districts in town.
In tiny District 1, Karina Quintanilla leads Chris Scott by 163 votes. Only 2,989 votes were cast in District 1 in Palm Desert, in a city with a population of about 52-thousand people.
District 2 in Palm Desert, Joe Pradetto leads Kathleen Kelly by 526 votes.
District 3 in Palm Desert Gina Nestande leads Anyse Smith by 224 votes.
Palm Springs City Council District 4, Naomi Soto leads Joseph Jackson by 247 votes.
Palm Springs City Council District 5, Former City Manager David Ready was unopposed and wins a City Council seat.
Michael O’Keefe and Ted Weill were reelected to the City Council in Rancho Mirage.
Peter Wilson wins the Coachella Valley Water District, Division 4 seat.
Russ Martin wins the Mission Springs Water District Division 3 seat.
Property taxes will be going up, Measure S, bond measure for the Palm Springs Unified School District needed 55% to pass, it is passing with 74% of the vote.
Sales tax is going up in Palm Desert, as 65% of voters approved Measure G, a 1 penny increase in the sales tax.
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Measure Y in Coachella, is passing by a 52 to 47 % margin…a 393 vote lead. It would give the City Council in Coachella authority to raise the hotel tax in town to a rate between 9% and 13%. The current hotel tax in town is 9%. It applies to short term vacation rental units as well. Coachella does not have any hotels in town.
Two female workers at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters office in Riverside CA.
Oct 8th 2024.
Photo Courtesy of the Riverside County Registrar of Voters.
