Race for Sonoma County sheriff could come down to last vote as Engram clings to 50%

Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Eddie Engram is right on the razor’s edge between winning the race for sheriff or having to go to a November runoff election, with more ballots still to be counted.

Updated results announced Friday evening show Engram remains barely above half of the vote, with 33,245 of the 66,355 votes counted so far, or 50.1 percent. If Engram drops below that 50 percent plus one vote, he will head to a runoff election against retired San Francisco police Sgt. Carl Tennenbaum, who had 27.57 percent of the vote in the latest tally.