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The race for the 3rd District seat on the Yolo County Board of Supervisors remains too close to call, but updated election results released Friday made one thing clear: voters will choose between Dotty Pritchard and Mayra Vega in a November runoff.
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Pritchard, who has led since Election Night, continued to hold the top spot with 39.8% of the vote. Even if she received every uncounted ballot in the county, she would still fall short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
Vega, a Woodland councilmember, remained in second place with 32.4% of the vote, while former Woodland councilmember Xotchl Rodriguez held 27.8%. Rodriguez is unlikely to gain the 529 votes needed to surpass Vega, according to county results. There are not enough outstanding ballots for Rodriguez to finish first.
Because no candidate won more than 50% of the vote, Pritchard and Vega will appear on the ballot again in November to determine who succeeds outgoing Supervisor Mary Vixie Sandy.
The 3rd District includes portions of Woodland, the Wild Wings community, and the Bryte and Broderick neighborhoods in West Sacramento.
Pritchard has led the field since Election Night. Before Friday’s update, she was ahead by about 9 percentage points.
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Pritchard, a longtime teacher and deputy to county supervisors, received significant support in the district’s rural areas and narrowly outperformed Vega in Woodland precincts, county data show. Rodriguez won the district’s West Sacramento precincts.
The new 3rd District supervisor will join a body that recently eliminated 150 jobs to repair a $35 million budget deficit. County officials have said additional budget cuts will likely be necessary in the coming years.
Turnout was higher than expected for a primary election, and a significant portion of ballots arrived after Election Day, likely due to indecision over the governor’s race.
The county has about 1,000 ballots left to count and about 350 signature-cure ballots outstanding, but it is unclear how many of those ballots were cast by 3rd District voters. About one in five registered Yolo County voters lives in the district.
The county will release another vote count update by 4 p.m. Tuesday. Election officials have until July 2 to certify the results.
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