Monterey County Midterm election update

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As you may know by now, the Midterm General election has been done for about 1 week, but votes in the Monterey County Elections Office are still being gathered. As of Friday, November 9 over 43.8% of the votes have been calculated as many absentee ballots arrived by mail on either November 8 or 9. In the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction Marshall Tuck has earned over 50% of the vote and Tony Thurmond over 49%. A number of local races for open School Board positions in South Monterey County are still too close to call. In the race for a Gonzales Unified School Board position Maria Cuevas has over 25% of the vote, Jose Lopez is at over 24%, Araceli Flores is at over 23%, Rosalie Sanchez is at over 16% and Monique Marie Martinez has picked up over 9.8% of the vote. In the race for a Soledad Unified School District 4-year term, Alfredo Flores has earned over 35.8% of the vote, Monica Pantoja has grabbed over 30%, Jodi Massa over 16.8% and Jaime Fernandez has 16.5%, while in a head to head race for a 2-year-term on the Soledad Unified School District, Jess Berreras has over 51% of the vote and Lucio Rios has over 48%. Over half a dozen people are trying to get elected for open seats on the Greenfield Union School District and as of Friday, November 9, Cynthia Aguirre has over 26.7% of the vote, David Kong has earned over 13% of the vote, Marisol Isabel Arizpe, Juergen Smith, Denise Jaime and John Ekelund have over 12%, while Eric Jones has picked up over 11% of the vote. Measures Q and R have still both received very good support from voters for the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District as they've both picked up over 57% in yes votes and over 42% in no votes. Plus, the race to become the Soledad Community Health Care District Director is still a little tight as Jack Franscioni has earned over 41% of the vote, Anne Trebino over 34% and Robert Bigiogni has over 24% of the vote.

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