As of late Friday afternoon, Bernie Sanders crept past Hillary Clinton in the vote totals for Santa Barbara County, the 24th Congressional District, and San Luis Obispo County, according to the latest election office update. The new figures — which are not final — show Sanders with 1,293 more votes (50.3 percent to 49 percent) in the congressional district than Clinton, who carried the district by a small margin on election night. The congressional district includes Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and small part of Ventura counties.
In Santa Barbara County, Sanders had just 108 more votes than Clinton, as of Friday afternoon. The county — which had visits from both Sanders and Clinton in the past two weeks — still has 13,000 vote-by-mail ballots and 7,000 provisional ballots left to count. In San Luis Obispo County, Sanders showed 954 more votes than Clinton (50.3 percent to 48 percent) as of Friday.
In California, Clinton had a sizable lead — 12.4 percent — on Sanders.