Kelvin Driscoll claimed victory Friday, Nov. 6 in Santa Clarita’s City Council District 5 race, and opponent Bob Khalsa offered his congratulations. Ballot counting is still underway, and results remain unofficial.

In the county’s Friday 11 p.m. update, as reported by SCVNews, Driscoll had 8,238 votes (50.45%) to Khalsa’s 6,582 (40.31%). Liliia Chernova had 1,508 votes (9.24%).

“This victory belongs to the people of District 5,” Driscoll said in a campaign statement reported by The Signal. Khalsa thanked his supporters and added: “Once again, congratulations to Kelvin Driscoll. I wish him and the entire City Council success as they work on behalf of our community.”

District 2 remains a close race. Brett Haddoak’s lead over Denise Lite grew to 243 votes in the Friday 11 p.m. tally: 6,770 votes (40.48%) to 6,527 (39.02%). Gloria Mercado-Fortine had 3,429 votes (20.50%).

In District 4, Mayor Laurene Weste had 7,997 votes (51.12%) as of Friday night, ahead of Valerie Bradford’s 4,504 (28.79%).

The next county ballot update is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7 at 4 p.m. About 414,000 ballots remained to be processed countywide, according to the registrar’s estimate reported by SCVNews. That is not an estimate of Santa Clarita ballots alone.

The county is scheduled to certify results by Nov. 27. Until then, these are unofficial counts, not certified final results.