An update from the Stanislaus County Registrar of Voters office was released on Monday, Nov. 9 regarding the results from the Tuesday, Nov. 3 General Election.

The vote totals are not yet official; the next update from the county is due on Nov. 12.

In local races, the six candidates vying for two seats on the Oakdale City Council saw former councilman Fred Smith leading the way with 28 percent of the vote, followed by Christopher Chavez with 23 percent. Incumbent Kayleigh Gilbert was close behind with 21 percent.

Challengers Mary Buchanan, 11 percent; Sal Hernandez, 9 percent; and Benjamin Amaral, just over 7 percent, appear to be out of the running.

For the Riverbank City Council, the race for a District 1 seat saw incumbent Luis Uribe with a lead, getting 35 percent of the vote, followed by Jeanette Reyes at 25 percent, Sherry Fenn at 23 percent and Nai N. Sosongkham at 17 percent.

Sammi Martinez had a commanding lead in the District 3 council race, at 55 percent, with Carissa Commons at 42 percent and write-in candidate, former councilman Cal Campbell, with three percent.

In the Riverbank Measure M vote, it was passing with a 60 to 40 percent margin. Measure M asked voters to cast ballots on a ‘Citizen Initiative Measure’ to require voter approval of urban development on agricultural or open space lands west of the city limits.

The measure, if adopted, would then require that a “majority of city voters approve at an election any decision of the Riverbank City Council that would authorize or facilitate development of urban uses on agricultural or open space lands located west of the current city limits of the City of Riverbank.”

Riverbank Unified School District had a race in Area 2, with Martha Gonzalez polling 55 percent of the vote, well ahead of Katie Wedge at 45 percent.

Statewide, Stanislaus County voters favored Xavier Becerra by a 53 to 47 percent margin over Steve Hilton in the race for Governor while Fiona Ma had the same lead, 53 to 47 percent, over Gloria Romero in the race for Lieutenant Governor.

County officials said on Monday that additional vote by mail ballots have been added to the Election Night vote count. A total of 124,344 ballots have now been counted. The ballots cast, out of 301,333 registered voters, represents just over 41 percent of voters turning out.

The approximate number of ballots remaining to be processed includes:

Vote by mail – 33,192 remaining from Election Day and received timely by mail with a post mark of no later than Nov. 10, 2026, consistent with Assembly Bill 37;

Provisionally voted ballots – 113;

Conditionally voted ballots – 1,662;

Miscellaneous ballots – 505.

More information regarding the General Election is available on the Stanislaus Registrar of Voters website at: stanvote.gov