Regina Lackey padded her lead for the Area 2 seat on the Manteca City Council by 22 votes in the latest election count released Friday.

Lackey now has 2,338 (41.61 percent) votes while her closest challenger Judy Blumhorst had 2,114 (37.62 percent of the votes.

There are currently 224 votes separating Blumhorst and Lackey as opposed to 202 on Wednesday.

The third candidate, Gabriel Galletta, now has 1,167 votes or 20.77 percent of the tally so far.

In the race to represent Manteca-Lathrop on the Board of Supervisors, current Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal now leads former Manteca Mayor Steve DeBrum 51.29 percent (20,045) to 48.72 percent (19.036.

That is a 909 vote lead, up from Wednesday’s tally when DeBrum trailed by 574 votes.

The current count in other races as of Friday shows:

*Incumbent Congressman Josh Harder leading current Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln 51.64 percent (82,211) to 48.36 percent (76,978).

*Jim Shoemaker leading former Congressman Jerry McNerney 51percent (85.469) to 49 percent (82,109).

*Measure K, the Delta College bond measure at 58.69 percent (90,991) “yes votes” and 37.45 percent (64,057) “no votes.”

*Measure J, the $32 million Ripon Unified school bond had 50.98 percent (3,581) “yes votes” and 49.02 percent (3,443) “no votes.”

*For the Manteca Unified Area 2 seat, Bob Wallace is leading Kelly Alvarez 72.23 percent (2,938) to 27.67 percent (1,124).

*In the race for Mayor of Lathrop Paul Akinjo is at 47.05 percent (3,578), Paul Camarena 24.25 percent (1,844), Mansoor Fazel 21.33 percent (1,622), and Diana Radonic 7.36 percent (560 votes).

*In the Lathrop council race Jennifer Torres-O’Callaghan is at 42.28 percent (4,800), Minnie “Cotton” Diallo 37.05 percent (4m206), and Steve Dresser 20.67 percent (2,346).

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