The land conservation bond passed, and it did not pass narrowly. The unofficial count the Supervisor of Elections published through the state’s election night reporting system puts the referendum at 110,300 votes “Yes, For Bonds” and 36,215 “No, Against Bonds,” which the feed prints as 75.28 percent to 24.72, with all 55 precincts participating. The question asked whether the county should issue up to $100 million in general obligation bonds for conservation land, repaid with a property tax of up to 0.15 mills. The board put it on the ballot 3/2 in August, over two dissents on the timing. The answer came back three to one.

The numbers that follow are the feed’s own, as of its last update at 10:54 p.m. on election night. The count is unofficial. The election day and early voting columns were completely reported at that update, the vote by mail column was partially reported, and provisional ballots are not in it. Nothing in this story is a projection. These are the counted totals, and the certified result follows when the canvassing board finishes its work.

Turnout was 64.32 percent, with 156,860 ballots cast of 243,889 registered voters.

The two cities. Jacob Dascomb carried St. Augustine Beach Commission Seat 3 with 2,144 votes to Undine Celeste George’s 1,483, which the feed prints as 59.11 percent to 40.89, with one precinct participating and 3,627 votes cast. The city’s charter amendment carried 3,270 to 453, at 87.83 percent. In St. Augustine, Matt Brown carried Commission Seat 5 with 4,033 votes to Julie Settle’s 2,168, at 65.04 percent, in 4 of 4 precincts. The precinct column matters beside every number here. It says who was allowed to vote. A Beach seat is decided inside one precinct, a St. Augustine seat inside four, a countywide seat inside 55. The electorates behind those percentages differ by an order of magnitude.

School Board District 4. Tammie McClafferty carried the seat with 17,563 votes to Jillian Tozer’s 11,314, at 60.82 percent, with 9 of 9 precincts participating. School board seats here are voted by residence area rather than countywide, and the race drew 28,877 votes.

The countywide boards. All of these ran in all 55 precincts. On the Anastasia Mosquito Control District board, Tim Burton carried Seat 2 with 45,956 votes, 36.85 percent, over Sandra Fein’s 34,357, Catherine Brandhorst’s 34,292 and Ed Slavin’s 10,090. Gary Howell carried Seat 4 with 47,516 votes, 39.11 percent, over Jason Smith’s 40,092, George Tom Anagnos’s 22,779 and Merrill Paul Roland’s 11,115. On the Airport Authority, Jerry Dedge carried Group 2 with 66,486 votes, 57.26 percent, over John H. Wilson’s 49,625, and Sean Griswold carried Group 3 with 53,616, 43.97 percent, over Sean Hess’s 37,857 and Christopher Cannan’s 30,468.

The closest result of the night anywhere on the ballot. The St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach Commission runs in 20 precincts, and Lynda I. Kirker carried Group 1 with 16,161 votes to Melanie Sunshine Neale’s 13,125, at 55.18 percent. Group 5 is the one to watch through certification. The feed puts Clay M. Hansen at 14,089 votes and Tom Rivers at 13,899, which is 50.34 percent to 49.66. The difference is 190 votes, with vote by mail still partially reported.

The community development districts. Eleven CDD seats were on county ballots, most decided inside one or two precincts. Barbara Little carried Brandy Creek Seat 3, Michael James Manzione carried Bannon Lakes Seat 5, Patricia Jacob carried Julington Creek Plantation Seat 1, David Parrish carried Marshall Creek Seat 3 and Kristen Cohen carried Sweetwater Creek Seat 1. Anthony Vetter carried Tolomato Seat 5, Bud Laudenslager and Vincent Sajkowski carried Trout Creek Seats 1 and 2, and Bertram Kamin carried Twin Creeks North Seat 4. The narrowest count in the county sits at Heritage Landing Seat 2. The feed there puts Christine Mallatt at 648 votes and Brad Thompson at 639. Nine votes separate them.

How the county voted on the state ballot. These are St. Johns County’s counts alone. Statewide contests are decided on statewide totals this feed does not carry. In this county, Byron Donalds took 61.09 percent for governor, Ashley Moody 62.59 for U.S. Senate, James Uthmeier 63.24 for attorney general, Blaise Ingoglia 63.21 for chief financial officer and Wilton Simpson 62.72 for agriculture commissioner, while John H. Rutherford took 62.30 percent in the county’s 49 precincts in Congressional District 5 and Randy Fine 60.46 in the 11 precincts of District 6. In the legislature, Kim Kendall took 65.16 percent in House District 18, Sam Greco 53.52 in District 19 and Judson Sapp 66.28 in District 20. The county voted yes on all four retention questions, went against Amendment 1 with 60.69 percent voting no, and backed Amendments 2 and 3 at 60.85 and 65.37 percent yes.

The canvassing board’s certified result, and anything the remaining vote by mail and provisional ballots move, will be reported when the Supervisor publishes it.