As of 5 p.m. Thursday, Fresno County had counted about 16,000 additional votes, but that leaves an estimated 99,450 ballots to process and count. That figure does not include any ballots postmarked by Election Day that have not yet been delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. Those ballots will be counted if they arrive by Nov. 12.

Ruth Luevanos was a few thousand votes behind with 16,441, or 29.3%. Ron Resnick had 6,268 votes, or 60%, as he jumped out to a lead over Simi Valley Unified School District Area C incumbent Sofya Bagdasaryan,

Despite a push by Florida legislators to require school board candidates to disclose their political affiliations, school board races will remain nonpartisan, with voters rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment.