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Both elections for Alameda County Superior Court judge remain at single-digit percentage differences in the latest results update Friday afternoon, with the closer contest from Election Night widening and the other race getting tighter with more ballots left to count.
Michael P. Johnson saw his advantage shrink to 6,530 votes over Cabral Bonner in the election for judicial Office No. 13. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ Office reported at about 4 p.m. Friday that Johnson had 51.61% of the vote (104,678 votes) to Bonner’s 48.39% (98,148 votes)
Johnson, a consumer protection attorney and temporary judge, finished Election Night counting on Tuesday with a lead of 52.60% (73,602 votes) to the 47.40% (66,327 votes) of Bonner, a civil rights lawyer and former temporary judge.
For the separate judicial seat on the ballot, Office No. 19, Selia Warren has widened her narrow Election Night lead up to nearly 16,000 votes, sitting Friday at 105,258 votes (54.11%) to Patricia Miles’ 89,285 votes (45.89%).
The contest was among the closest in all of the Bay Area on Election Night, with trial attorney Warren at 50.92% and administrative law judge Miles at 49.08% – a difference of 2,479 votes.
The registrar’s office expects its next numbers release to come on Monday (June 8), with a final announcement scheduled for next Friday (June 12).
Election officials say they have an estimated 125,463 unprocessed ballots left countywide after processing 244,535 ballots through Friday afternoon. Nearly 77,000 ballots were tabulated between Wednesday and Friday, they said.
