Monterey County election results update

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As you may know by now, the Midterm General election has been wrapped up now for over a week, but the Monterey County Elections Office is still gathering all of votes that have come in. As of Wednesday, November 14 over 56% of the votes have been calculated. In the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction Marshall Tuck has earned over 50.3% of the vote and Tony Thurmond over 49.6%.
A number of local races for open School Board positions in South Monterey County are still very tight. In the race for a Gonzales Unified School Board position Maria Cuevas has over 25.4% of the vote, Jose Lopez is at over 25.3%, Araceli Flores is at over 24%, Rosalie Sanchez is at over 15.9% and Monique Marie Martinez has picked up over 9.1% of the vote. In the race for a Soledad Unified School District 4-year term Alfredo Flores has earned over 36.3% of the vote, Monica Pantoja has grabbed over 31.4%, Jodi Massa over 16.2% and Jaime Fernandez has 15.9%, while in a head to head race for a 2-year-term on the Soledad Unified School District Jess Berreras now has over 52.4% of the vote and Lucio Rios has over 47.5%. Over half a dozen people are trying to get elected for a few open seats on the Greenfield Union School District and the numbers as of Wednesday, November 14, have Cynthia Aguirre with over 27% of the vote, David Kong has earned over 13.1% of the vote, Denise Jaime and Marisol Isabel Arizpe have over 12%, while Juergen Smith, John Ekelund and Eric Jones have picked up over 11%. Measures Q and R have still both received solid support from voters for the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District as Measure Q has picked up over 59% in yes votes and Measure R has earned over 60% in yes votes. Plus, in the race to become the Soledad Community Health Care District Director is still a little tight as Jack Franscioni has now earned over 42% of the vote, Anne Trebino over 34.9% and Robert Bigiogni has over 22.3% of the vote.

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