Aram Ayra pulled ahead of Gracie Torres in the Ward 2 City Council race on Tuesday, Nov. 10 — his first lead since polls closed a week earlier — while Chuck Conder holds a firmer lead in Ward 4 and Noemi Hernandez Alexander leads the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) board race, according to semifinal results released Tuesday.
Ayra led Torres 3,821 votes to 3,794, or 50.2% to 49.8%, as of the Riverside County Registrar of Voters’ 5:33 p.m. report on Nov. 10. The 27-vote margin is less than half a percentage point, and the race remains too close to call.
Tuesday was also the last day mail ballots postmarked by Election Day could arrive at the registrar’s office and still be counted…