Village Farms race becomes tighter after Friday’s ballot release from Yolo County

Ryan Davis widens his lead in Yolo judge race, while Thompson and Jones run 1-2 in Fourth Congressional District

One race became closer, one race widened and one race was seemingly decided in the latest ballot drop from the Yolo County Elections Office that was reported late Friday afternoon.

The tightening race was Measure V, the 1,800-home Village Farms proposal on the northeast side of Davis.

After the release of 5,676 newly counted ballots, “No on V” still holds a slim majority, but its lead has shrunk from 438 votes to just 270.

The raw numbers are 11,451 “No” (50.60 percent) to 11,181 “Yes” (49.40 percent).

All mail-in ballots were due last Tuesday, June 9, and any received after that date will not be counted.

The county did not reveal how many votes are still to be counted.

In the race for a vacant Yolo Superior Court judge seat, Ryan Davis more than doubled his lead over Diane Ortiz from 468 votes to 1,046.

After the release of 10,330 votes, the raw numbers for Davis are 26,963 (50.99 percent) to 25,917 (49.01 percent) for Ortiz.

And finally, a late surge has moved Eric Jones into second place behind incumbent Mike Thompson in the District 4 Congressional race, with those two set to square off in November under California’s Top-Two Primary system.

Thompson leads with 41.0 percent of the vote to 22.2 percent for Jones and 20.8 percent for Ray Riehle in voting from parts of the nine counties that comprise the 4th Congressional District.

Jones had been consistently in third place in previous vote releases since the June 2 election, but seems likely to have secured the second spot with 95 percent of the vote counted.

Thompson and Jones are both Democrats, while Riehle is a Republican.

The next vote release from Yolo County is expected on Tuesday, June 16, at 4 p.m.

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