With 66.4% of votes, incumbent Democrat Dawn Addis will likely represent District 30, which includes portions of San Luis Obispo County, based on the current vote count published by the California Secretary of State. The Secretary of State will certify election results by Dec. 11. 

Addis is leading with 82,637 votes, which is 66.4% of the votes counted in the initial results from the California Secretary of State. Her challenger, Republican Shannon Kessler, received 41,891 of the votes counted in the initial announcement, which is 33.6% of the votes.

The Secretary of State has counted at least part of the votes from every precinct as of 8:08 a.m. on Wednesday.

From San Luis Obispo County, 58.2% of voters voted for Addis, while 41.8% voted for Kessler, according to the initial count from the County Clerk’s office. The County Clerk-Recorder has counted at least part of the votes from every precinct in San Luis Obispo County as of 1:47 a.m. on Wednesday.

In the June Primary election, Addis and Kessler received the majority vote and moved forward to the November ballot. Addis led the primary with 54.8% of overall votes and 49.11% of the votes in San Luis Obispo County. Kessler received 35.9% of the overall votes and 43.25% of the votes in San Luis Obispo County.

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First elected in 2022, the win could grant Addis her third term as assemblymember, serving parts of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo Counties, including Cal Poly. She is the first Democratic woman to represent District 30, and her 2022 induction marked the first Democrat to hold the seat since 1947. 

Addis began her work for the government as a councilmember for the City of Morro Bay in 2018. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Budget Subcommittee on Health, overseeing a 175 billion dollar budget and acts as an Assembly Speaker appointee to the Ocean Protection Council, amongst various other positions listed in her biography. 

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Her primary priorities lie in funding schools and lowering education barriers, protecting the environment and expanding access to healthcare. 

During the past four years of acting as an assemblymember, she helped create the Climate Bond in 2024 and introduced AB 2254, the Coastal Monarchs Protection Act. 

Addis has focused on creating affordable housing for students in specific, proposing AB 358, which assisted the building of college housing and co-authoring SB 417, The Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026. 

She discussed more about her campaign and intended policies in an interview with Mustang News in May. 

Addis would assume office the first Monday in December.

Editor’s Note: This article was updated on Wednesday, Nov. 4 to reflect updated vote counts.