Election

If there were a list of top advocates for the Downtown Merced area in recent years, the name Sair Lara Rodriguez would definitely be on it. The 41-year-old board member and former president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association has stood up at government and community meetings, and led community-based efforts to create safer streets,…

If you ask Cynthia Kelly about the region of Merced she has lived in for the past 17 years, her response might have you thinking she would be a really good…

The total estimated number of ballots to be processed from the March 5 Primary Election was 13,990, as of Wednesday morning, according to the Merced County…

“Make a plan.” That’s the advice from Darlene Ingersoll, the Merced County Registrar of Voters, who is leading the effort to organize the general election this November amid statewide changes to the voting process. It’s not Ingersoll’s first election in the county – that was the 2020 presidential election, when she worked under her outgoing…

If elected, Fue Xiong would become the youngest member of the Merced City Council. He is vying for the District 6 seat as a challenger to incumbent City…

Prosecutor Nicole Silveira is poised to take the top seat at the Merced County District Attorney’s Office after gaining an impressive lead in the…

Fresno Democrat Esmeralda Soria took an early lead Tuesday night in the election to fill the open 27th State Assembly District seat, and she appears to be heading toward a run off in November with Merced County’s own Mark Pazin. Soria, a Fresno City Council member, is in the lead of the four-candidate race as of Wednesday morning with 42 percent…

If the latest election results hold true, a new Merced City Council in December will better reflect the town’s ethnically diverse population and…

By JOHN MILLER & JONATHAN WHITAKER In an Election Night forever to be remembered by razor-thin margins for victory, there was one local candidate in a…

Editor's Note: The following is an update from the Merced County Registrar of Voters, Barbara Levey Today, Nov. 4, the Elections Office began the canvass process of the Presidential General Election. On Election Day Merced County Registrar of Voters Barbara J. Levey reported her office had counted 61,710 complete…