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CD9 is down to 286 votes

Jose Ugarte led Estuardo Mazariegos by nearly 2,500 votes on election night. After LA County’s count Monday afternoon his lead is down to 286, 19,002 votes to 18,716, and it has shrunk in 13 straight county updates. Mazariegos took 58.6% of Monday’s CD9 ballots (207 of 353), the best he’s done in any count since election night.

How it ends depends on how many CD9 ballots are still out, and the county doesn’t publish that by council district. If late ballots lean toward CD9 the way they did in June’s primary, about 1,800 are left and Mazariegos needs about 58% of them, just under what he got Monday. But if CD9 keeps the share of the county’s ballots it’s had all along, it’s more like 600, he’d need about 74%, and Ugarte likely wins.

Monday’s count leaned toward the first case. CD9 made up 2.7% of the 12,880 ballots the county counted, more than double its 1.2% share of everything counted so far. The registrar now estimates about 44,000 ballots are left countywide, and its next count is Tuesday at 4 p.m. Our live results page updates as soon as it posts.

New maps for Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego

We’ve mapped 553 local races in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties, precinct by precinct. That’s 204 races for mayor, city council and other city offices, 189 school and community college board races, 85 special district races from water boards to hospital districts, 70 local measures and five county races. Each map updates itself when its county posts a new count, and you can tap any precinct to see every local race on its ballot. All four are on one page alongside our LA map.

Local races in these counties have long been undercovered, and real-time results that are easy to find and easy to read have been scarce. The Basin was built on the premise of making information that should be public... public!

Fontana’s mayor race swung hard on Monday evening. Jocelyn “Joz” Sida led longtime mayor Acquanetta Warren by 14 votes after Saturday’s count, and San Bernardino County’s Monday count gave her 63.9% of the two candidates’ new votes, so she’s now ahead by 1,356. The Fontana map shows a city split almost cleanly in two.

	Fontana mayor by precinct after Monday’s count, Sida in blue and Warren in orange.

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