The 10th Assembly District race between Jack Sieglock and Alyson Huber moved in the Republican's favor Thursday, with Sieglock moving to a 943-vote lead over Huber, a Democrat from El Dorado Hills.

Sieglock, from Lodi, had 76,267 votes for 46.9 percent of the vote, to 75,324 and 46.3 percent for Huber.

Meanwhile, another Assembly race moved onto the California Secretary of State's "Close Races" watch, with Democrat Fran Florez now within less than 1,500 votes of overtaking Republican Danny Gilmore in the 30th Assembly District.

Shafter Mayor Florez had 39,420 votes as of 4 p.m. Thursday to 40,849 for Gilmore, a retired CHP officer and commander from Hanford. That gave Gilmore 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent for Florez.

The race was considered a rare Republican pickup in the state Assembly, with incumbent Assemblywoman Nicole Parra (D-Hanford) termed out and endorsing Gilmore amid a feud with Florez's family.

According to the California Secretary of State's Web site, Kern County, which contains Shafter and where Florez significantly outpolled Gilmore, had more than 40,000 uncounted ballots as of Monday afternoon.

However, it was not clear how many of those ballots come from the portion of Kern in AD 30.

Kings County, which is where Hanford is, had 973 uncounted ballots as of Monday. Kern and Kings counties make up the bulk of the district, and Kings is entirely within AD 30.

Tulare County, partially within the district, had 25,400 ballots to be counted Monday, and Fresno County, also partially within the district, had 43,500 unprocessed ballots Monday.

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