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OAKLAND, Calif. – The race for California governor is far from over, and thousands of votes from across the state have yet to be recorded.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Associated Press indicated<\/a> that six of the nine Bay Area counties had counted less than 50% of the votes that were cast by their community members in Tuesday’s primary election.<\/p>\n Still, three candidates have emerged with clear leads, and the returns seen thus far paint a picture of how those counties voted.<\/p>\n By the numbers <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Alameda County returned an estimated 164,827 votes in the primary election, of which about 44% has been counted, according to AP. The returns indicated that just under 49,000 votes went to Xavier Becerra, while just above 45,000 went to Tom Steyer.<\/p>\n Over in neighboring Contra Costa County, an estimated 171,817 ballots were cast, with about 63% being counted. Preliminary results showed about 51,500 votes for Becerra, while Republican Steve Hilton was the runner-up with just above 42,000 votes.<\/p>\n Across the Bay Bridge in San Francisco County, an estimated 122,202 votes were cast, with roughly 47% being recorded. About 40,600 votes were for Steyer, while Becerra trailed next with just under 30,000 votes.<\/p>\n Just south in San Mateo County, voters cast an estimated 79,034, with about 52% being counted. Just above 21,000 votes were counted for Becerra, while Hilton received just above 19,000.<\/p>\n In the South Bay, about 205,775 Santa Clara County voters cast their ballots, with about 54% of that number being recorded. A little more than 59,000 votes were recorded for Becerra, while Hilton received nearly 49,900 votes.<\/p>\n North across the Bay, in Marin County, an estimated 34,826 votes were cast, with roughly 45% being counted. Steyer received nearly 10,200 votes, while Becerra was recorded to have received just under 9,900.<\/p>\n In nearby Sonoma County, 74,291 voters cast their ballots, and about 49% have been counted. Becerra received a little more than 23,000 votes, while Steyer won just above 17,200.<\/p>\n In Napa County, 15,981 voters cast their ballots, with 45% being counted. Just above 4,300 votes went to Hilton, while just under 4,200 went to Becerra.<\/p>\n Finally, in Solano County, 61,038 people voted, with 48% being recorded. Hilton led the pack with just above 16,800 votes, while Becerra trailed closely with just under 16,300.<\/p>\n The Source: Associated Press California governor’s primary election results<\/p>\n Election<\/a>Politics<\/a>California<\/a>California Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. – The race for California governor is far from over, and thousands of votes from across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1184,5713,7,9,8,204,100,13,1181],"class_list":["post-346007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ca","tag-ca-politics","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-election","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}