Second Place Finish Between Darrell Park, Bob Huff Still Too Close to Call

SAN DIMAS, CA - The close race between a businessman and a state senator to appear on a November runoff ballot for a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors got a little closer Friday, but is still far from being decided.

Unofficial results from Tuesday's election initially showed entrepreneur Darrell Park finishing second in the race to replace Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, with Sen. Bob Huff, R-San Dimas, trailing him by about 400 votes.

But with thousands of ballots still remaining to be counted, it remained too close to determine if Park or Huff would make it to the November ballot to square off with Antonovich chief of staff Kathryn Barger, who finished first on Tuesday's ballot.

Updated results released today showed Huff narrowing the gap in the Fifth District race, now trailing Park by just 280 votes.

More than a half-million provisional and vote-by-mail ballots from across the county still need to be counted. About one-fifth of those are believed to be from the Fifth District.

Another update of the election results is expected to be released Tuesday.

--City News Service, photos courtesy of the campaigns