After nearly 60% of the ballots were counted in California’s gubernatorial primary election, the race was still too close to call Friday, with Republican Steve Hilton leading the pack.

Among the tabulated votes across the state with 58 counties, the former Fox News host received 27.2% of the votes.

Democrat Xavier Becerra was closely trailing behind with 26%, followed by Tom Steyer at 20.2%.

By looking at the map of California, Hilton may seem like a clear frontrunner. From Shasta County in Northern California to San Bernardino County in Southern California, the Republican candidate, endorsed by President Donald Trump, maintained a solid lead over his opponents in regions that cover a big swatch of the Golden State.

However, despite the size of the land, red counties typically have less population and fewer registered voters in blue states. For example, LA County’s population was 4 times that of San Bernardino County.

Hilton’s comfortable lead in California’s red counties

Steve Hilton appears to be the favorite among voters in conservative-leading counties.

In Orange County, the most populous red county in California, Hilton may be the heavy favorite: he secured more than 37% of the votes counted by Friday morning, compared to Becerra’s 22%.

The trend was similar in Ventura, Kern and San Luis Obispo counties.

In San Bernardino County, Hilton was in first place. However, he was leading Becerra by only about 4,000 votes. Hispanic voters, the largest demographic group in the county, may have supported Becerra, whose campaign pushed the nickname “Tio Becerra” to shore up support from the Latino voting bloc.

Becerra outpacing opponents in populous blue counties

Becerra, who represented California’s 34th Congressional District, which includes downtown LA and East LA, until 2013, had a 6% lead over Tom Steyer in LA County as of Friday.

Given his deep ties to LA County communities, a large portion of 688,000 yet-to-be-counted ballots could go toward Becerra.

Despite having little personal connection to blue counties like San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, Becerra was ahead of Steyer.

In Becerra’s hometown of Sacramento County, though, the former Health and Human Services secretary was second place behind Hilton, but only by some 400 votes.

Steyer’s NorCal stronghold?

Steyer had a solid lead over Becerra in six progressive-leaning counties, most of them in Northern California.

In San Francisco and Marin counties, Steyer was well ahead of Becerra and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who conceded Tuesday night. The billionaire candidate, who owns property in San Francisco, was in comfortable first place after receiving 34% of the votes, compared to Becerra’s 24%.

Santa Barbara County appears to favor Steyer, too. He was 5% ahead of Hilton. Becerra was in third place as of Friday.

Bianco leads in 2 red counties

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco was in distant fourth place, according to the latest overall vote count from Friday morning.

The number of votes for Bianco didn’t grow much after he secure about 11% of the counted votes.

Two of the conservative leading counties appeared to favor Bianco over others: Riverside and Lassen counties.

In Riverside County where Bianco is the top law enforcement official, he was in first place at 27%, closely followed by Becerra at 25%.

More than 44% of Lassen County voters cast their ballots for the sheriff, who scheduled a campaign event on the Lassen County Fairgrounds Friday evening.