Thursday, 5:10 p.m. – Ryan Coonerty and Ami Chen Mills will face each other in a run-off in November for Santa Cruz mayor. 

Coonerty had earned 47.8% of the ballots counted, or 9,293 of the 20,876 votes cast. In second, Chen Mills has 20.5% of the votes cast, or 3,990, after the county clerk’s office added 349 ballots to the county’s total on Thursday afternoon.

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