SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Asm. Kevin McCarty has an over 8,000-vote lead over Dr. Flojaune Cofer early Wednesday morning in the race to become Sacramento's next mayor.
The latest numbers from Sacramento County show McCarty in the lead with 46,226 votes to Cofer's 37,542. Approximately, 8,684 votes separate the candidates; the next county report will post 4 p.m. Friday.
McCarty, 52, has spent the past 10 years representing Sacramento in the state Assembly. Prior to that, he served a decade as a city councilman.
Cofer, 41, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and moved to Sacramento two decades ago for an epidemiology fellowship at the Department of Public Health.
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When do we find out who won the election?
Voters will start to see results not long after 8 p.m., but keep in mind, these aren't the final results. Every number seen on election night are unofficial results.
While some elections might be called on election night, that's generally a projection from media outlets or experts. Governments don't call elections. Mail-in ballots, provisional ballots, ballots from registered voters in the military deployed over seas and more all get counted for the final result.
The last day for counties to certify results is Dec. 5. The California Secretary of State will then have until Dec. 7 to certify the vote, with the Statement of Vote certified on Dec. 13.
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