LOS ANGELES – Assemblywoman Christy Smith was clinging to a slim lead Wednesday in her bid to unseat Mike Garcia in a rematch for the 25th Congressional District post.
With initial vote-counting completed from Tuesday’s election, Smith had 50.5% of the vote, to Garcia’s 49.5%, or 131,218 votes to Garcia’s 128,462 votes, according to results released Wednesday morning on the Secretary of State website. It was not immediately clear how many ballots still remain to be tallied in the race, and mail-in ballots can be received and counted for as many as 17 days after the election.
Smith was hoping to avenge an earlier loss to the Republican Garcia and take back the seat for the Democratic Party.
It was technically the fourth time in nine months the duo faced off at the ballot box. In March, Smith and Garcia finished one-two in a special election to fill out the term of Rep. Katie Hill, who resigned following the online release of salacious photos and allegations of an extramarital affair with a staff member.
On that same ballot, Smith and Garcia also topped essentially the same field of candidates in a separate primary race to fill Hill’s seat for the next two years.
In May, Smith and Garcia squared off in the runoff of the March special election to complete Hill’s original term, and Garcia emerged victorious and was sworn into Congress.
The winner in the current race will take over the seat for the next two years.
The 25th District stretches from the Antelope Valley into Ventura County.
In the race for the 23rd Congressional District, which includes portions of Lancaster, incumbent Kevin McCarthy held a sizeable lead over challenger Kim Mangone. McCarthy had 57.7% of the vote, to Mangone’s 42.3%, or 94,025 votes to Mangone’s 68,949 votes, according to the Secretary of State website.
Results will be certified by December 11, 2020.
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Bart says
… America is now the only English speaking nation which fails to boast free and fair elections –
Loam says
Mike Garcia is ahead on the latest results.
Mike Hawk says
“What’s that up in the road? A head?”
Dennis says
It looks like Garcia is up by .2% on Friday evening. I wish him luck. We sure do not need a liberal in this district.
Dave says
Well, Dennis.
With Biden/Harris in the White House and Speaker Pelosi likely to continue, Garcia will be another useless seat filler in the House like Steve Knight was.
In other words, we won’t be having a representative for the 25th district in Congress.
If Christy Smith was our rep, she’d be in the majority.
Maybe it’s best that Garcia be neutered by being in the minority with McCarthy doing the lying for him.
So, there’s that.
Loam says
And now Mike Garcia is leading by only 200 votes as of Nov 6th. Close race.
Tim Scott says
Garcia has been nothing but a chump for Trump right from the start…booting him out of office is good, punting him into the sun would be better.
Matt says
How about that Trump is just a liar? If you finally come to that realization it will all make sense to u.
Barbi says
… a fake election, election integrity issues stinking up what’s left of our wretched democracy, who knows what to believe?
Matt says
How about that Trump is just a liar? If you finally come to that realization it will all make sense to u.
Mike Hunt says
Hey, Barbikins
Did you complain when Trump broke every rule, law, protocol, tradition and so on?
Now, the Trump people expect others to play nice.
They know what they can do.
Mike Hunt says
If Democrats really wanted to steal this election they would have stolen a couple of senate seats as well.
Tell that to your stubborn, misguided Trump friends.
Mike says
Good. I hope she wins. Garcia was nothing but your average Repuglican Trump ass kisser anyway.
District Race says
KareNation.