{"id":349479,"date":"2026-06-06T13:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T13:12:26","slug":"how-slo-county-voted-in-the-california-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349479\/","title":{"rendered":"How SLO County voted in the California governor race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Luis Obispo County had the chance to vote for the state\u2019s top leader on Tuesday \u2014 and so far, a Republican gubernatorial candidate has garnered the most votes at both the local and statewide level.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/news\/politics-government\/article315073864.html\">Steve Hilton<\/a>, a conservative former Fox News host, was leading California\u2019s governor race with 27.5% of the vote as of 7:44 p.m. Thursday, according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov\/returns\/governor\">the Secretary of State\u2019s office<\/a>. Democrat Xavier Becerra was close behind with 26%, followed by Democrat billionaire <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article315848295.html\">Tom Steyer<\/a> sitting in third with 20.2% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, had nabbed 11.1% of votes across the state, while Democrats <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article315277533.html\">Katie Porter<\/a> and Matt Mahan were sitting in distant fifth and sixth slots with 4.5% and 4% of votes, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The top two vote-getters will advance to the Nov. 3 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Results will continue to shift as more mail-in ballots are counted in the coming weeks. All election results will be certified by July 10, according to the Secretary of State\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how SLO County voted in the governor\u2019s race so far.<\/p>\n<p>See SLO County vote breakdown for California governor<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slocounty.ca.gov\/departments\/clerk-recorder\/all-services\/elections-and-voting\/elections-conducted-by-county-of-san-luis-obispo\/june-2,-2026,-california-primary-election#CF\">San Luis Obispo County<\/a> also leaned toward Hilton, who was leading among local voters with 30.7% of the vote, as of 3:54 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Becerra had earned 22.5% of the vote, while Steyer and Bianco were sitting at 19% and 13.9% of the vote, respectively. Porter was in fifth with 4.6%, and Mahan was close behind with 3.9% of the vote among SLO County voters.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday afternoon, voter turnout remained low with approximately 25.1% of ballots submitted.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for county elections officials to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/upcoming-elections\/primary-election-june-2-2026\/key-dates-and-deadlines\">certify election results is July 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 5, 2026 at 11:29 AM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  San Luis Obispo Tribune<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/profile\/292949719\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20240617_LS_Interns_639.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Hannah Poukish\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/profile\/292949719\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Poukish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Tribune<\/p>\n<p>            Hannah Poukish covers San Luis Obispo County as The Tribune\u2019s government reporter. She previously reported and produced stories for The Sacramento Bee, CNN, Spectrum News and The Mercury News in San Jose. She graduated from Stanford University with a master\u2019s degree in journalism.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Luis Obispo County had the chance to vote for the state\u2019s top leader on Tuesday \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-349479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349479","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=349479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}