Measure Q — a three-quarter of a cent City of Manteca sales tax hike with a 20-year shelf life — was leading 51.39 percent (10,776 votes) to 48.61 percent (9,531 votes) as of 12:30 a.m. this morning.

The count at that time covered 153,496 ballots, or roughly 40.45 percent of all registered voters throughout San Joaquin County.

It wasn’t clear how many ballots were left to be counted.

Overall, the county has 378,657 registered voters.

If there was a 70 percent turnout — which would be a record high — it would mean there would be 111,559 votes left to count.

Again, that assumes a high 70 percent turnout.

It is also next to impossible to determine the number of ballots that remain to be counted for specific local races.

That said, here are where the counts stood on races that impacted Manteca, Ripon, and Lathrop as of 12:30 a.m.

*Incumbent Congressman Josh Harder was leading current Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln 51.13 percent (71,413) to 48.87 percent (68,257).

*In the Manteca City Council seat for Area 2 in the southwest portion of the city, Judy Blumhorst was at 41.63 percent (2,079), Regina Lackey at 37.59 percent (1,877), and Gabe Galletta at 20.78 percent (1,038).

*Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal was leading former Manteca Mayor Steve DeBrum 50.70 percent (17,137) to 49.30 percent (16,663).

*Measure J, the $32 million Ripon Unified bond measure, had 50.55 percent (3,127) “yes votes” to 49.45 percent (3,059) “no votes.”

* Jim Shoemaker was leading former Congressman Jerry McNerney 51.49 percent (75,701) to 48.51 percent (71,332).

*Measure K, the Delta College bond measure had 58.24 percent (79,194) “yes votes” and 41.76 percent (56,791) “no votes.”

*Measure R, requiring drug testing before receiving general assistance, had 74.61 percent (106,912) “yes votes” and 25.39 percent (36,379) “no votes.”

*For the Manteca Unified Area 2 seat, Bob Wallace was leading Kelly Alvarez 72.01 percemt (2,560) to 27.99 percent (995).

*In the race for Mayor of Lathrop Paul Akinjo had 47.62 percent (3,064), Paul Camarena 24.15 percent (1,554), Mansoor Fazel 20.64 percent (1,328), and Diana Radonic 7.58 percent (488 votes).

*In the Lathrop council race Jennifer Torres-O’Callaghan had 42.21 percent (4,044), Minnie “Cotton” Diallo 36.94 percent (3,569), and Steve Dresser 20.85 percent (1,998).

*Incumbent Health Flora was leading Tami Nobriga for the Assembly District 9 seat 68.29 percent (44,259) to 31,71 percent (20,555).

*Rhodesia Ransom was leading Denise Aguilar Mendez for the Assembly District 13 seat 55.40 percent (42,525) to 44.60 percent (34,238).

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com