SD-26: Election Results (Price-Davis Runoff Likely)

The results in Tuesday's 26th State Senate District Special Election can be found at the Secretary of State's website. The latest--very early, i.e. 15.5% (55 of 354 precincts reporting)--results are)

Candidate                Votes   Percent
Mike Davis (Dem)          2,968        23.44%
Saundra Davis (Dem)     840          6.63%
Cindy Varela Henderson (P&F) 244          1.93%
Curren D. Price, Jr. (Dem)   3,996        31.56%
Nachum Shifren (Rep)   1,910        15.08%
Robert Cole (Dem)          1,883        14.87%
Mervin Leon Evans (Dem)      76        0.60%
Jonathan Friedman (Dem)        745        5.88%

Another election will be held during the statewide May 19th special election between the top two vote getters if no candidate gets 50% +1 vote in this election. Mike Davis and Curren Price are both sitting Assemblymembers but only one of them is in favor of marriage equality and has had nearly 750,000 dollars of independent expenditures on his behalf: Curren Price.

It will not be a good sign for the forces of equality if Price can not get more than 1/3rd of the vote (and barely 10 points more than his nearest competitor, even in an 8-way race) despite out-raising and out-spending his opposition by something like a 8-to-1 ratio.

UPDATE 11:21PM WE HAVE A RUNOFF!!

Candidate     Votes   Percent
Mike Davis (Dem)     5,158     21.78%
Saundra Davis (Dem)   1,803   7.61%
Cindy Varela Henderson (P&F)  414   1.75%
Curren D. Price, Jr. (Dem)  8,442   35.65%
Nachum Shifren (Rep)   2,731  11.53%
Robert Cole (Dem)    3,133   13.23%
Mervin Leon Evans (Dem)   136   0.57%
Jonathan Friedman (Dem)   1,864  7.87%

Gentleman, start your engines!