Democratic state Senator Dave Min pulled ahead of Republican candidate Scott Baugh on Friday night in the race for the 47th Congressional District.
There’s now just over 1,000 votes between the two candidates, marking 0.38% of the total vote of over 286,000 votes.
The race for the 47th District, which covers much of Orange County’s coastline – including cities like Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach and Irvine, is one of the most competitive in the country.
While Min was leading in initial results on Election Night, Baugh pulled ahead in the later returns.
[Read: Min vs Baugh: Election Night Results 2024]
Min, who’s endorsed by outgoing Congresswoman Katie Porter, has been a state senator for the past four years after beating then-Senator John Moorlach.
[Read: ‘Sky Fell’: Is OC’s Old Brand of Conservative Republican Sunsetting?]
During his state Senate tenure, Min has repeatedly clashed with the Republican city council majority of Huntington Beach, spearheading laws as a direct response to several of their policies and directing the state auditor’s office to investigate them over the controversial air show settlement.
[Read: State Auditors to Investigate Huntington Beach’s Pacific Airshow Settlement]
Baugh ran against Porter in the 2022 election and lost by a narrow margin after spending years out of public office, with his last elected position in the State Assembly ending in 2000.
Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC reporter and corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him at nbiesiada@voiceofoc.org or on Twitter @NBiesiada.
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