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• Humboldt County Election Night — Live!
• As Much as 45% Percent of the Humboldt County Vote Hasn’t Been Counted Yet

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Castellano; Seaman; Arroyo.

The Humboldt County Elections office just released the first of its series of planned post-elections updates. The office has counted 8,722 of the 24,000+ votes that remained uncounted on Election Night, and for the most part results are unchanged.

Backers of Eureka’s Measure I sales tax have perhaps a little more reason to hold out hope, and it looks like there’s a chance that Eureka First Ward candidate Leslie Castellano might end up with a majority rather than a mere plurality of votes, as her colleagues Kim Bergel and Natalie Arroyo seem certain to do.

Shocker in Trinidad, though! At the end of election night, incumbent councilmember Susan Rotwein was leading the field of six candidates for three open seats, with 22.54 percent of the vote. In this new update, Rotwein has fallen out of the money entirely — in fourth place with 19.56 percent.