Here are the preliminary results from Tuesday’s election. Another update will be issued at 4 p.m. today as absentee and provisional votes are still being counted; 44% of registered voters participated.
The presidential race is still too close to call, with several key battleground states still counting ballots.
In California, for the 8th District Congressional seat Republican Jay Obernolte is ahead of Democrat Christine Bubser by about 13,000 votes.
For State Assembly, 42nd District, Independent Chad Mayes is edging out challenger Republican Andrew Kotyuk by 239 votes, less than 1%.
In Yucca Valley, incumbent Jeff Drozd is 25 votes ahead of challenger David Simmons, while incumbent Robert Lombardo easily beat his three challengers for Yucca Valley Town Council.
The winners for city council in Twentynine Palms so far are incumbents Joel Klink beating challenger Jim Krushat by 22 votes, and Steve Bilderain, who ran unopposed.
Winners for two seats on the Morongo Unified School District board are Robert Hamilton and Cathy Nelson.
All three incumbents of the Copper Mountain College—Mary Lombardo, Greg Gilbert, and Dick Rogers—were re-elected.
Karalee Hargrove lost her bid for election to the county board of education to Andrea DeLeon.
Johnny Tolbert and Christina Gorke were elected to the Morongo Valley CSD board.
For the Hi-Desert Memorial Healthcare District board of directors, the winners are Gregory Brown, Diane Markle-Greenhouse, and Dale Mondary.
Stacy Doolittle easily won her seat on the Joshua Basin Water District board of directors.
For county measures, Measure J, the Board of Supervisors’ measure to amend the county charter, failed. Measure K, a citizen initiative to limit county supervisors to one term with an annual salary of $60,000, won by 154,608 votes, or more than 2 to 1.
And voters narrowly defeated Measure U, which would have repealed the FP-5 fire fee, by 2.04 percent.
