After eight days of counting, Jonsen led by 1.44 percentage points. That’s less than half the margin Jonsen had on Election Day, when 49% of votes had been counted. 

Matt Mahan today widened his lead over Cindy Chavez with an estimated 90% of mayoral ballots counted. In order to win, Chavez would need to get more than 60% of the remaining ballots. Her vote totals haven’t come close to that percentage in the eight days of counting since Election Day.

Chavez would have to increase her winning percentage of the approximately 57,000 uncounted ballots to 55%, in order to wipe out Mahan's lead.

The Sunday ballot count in the San Jose mayoral election showed Mahan with 103,241 votes,  or 50.89%. Chavez had 98,610 votes, or 49.11%.

The list of Election Day front runners in Santa Clara County remained unchanged after Friday's count.

The pace of the ballot counting is testing the patience of candidates and their supporters in several tight races, including the mayoral contests in Santa Clara and San Jose and the elections for District 1 supervisor and county sheriff.

Polls showed the big-bucks battle between progressive Chavez and moderate Mahan was likely going to be close.

All local incumbent Democratic members of Congress are easily headed to re-election, despite encountering significant changes in district boundaries because of reapportionment based on the 2020 census.

The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters said Eisenberg had nearly 54 percent of early returns, with Kremen just over 46 percent.

Smith, who announced her retirement on Monday while the jury was deliberating, faced the charges in a civil trial that had been filed by a Santa County Civil Grand Jury in December. Sentencing in such a case could normally result in her removal from office, but the sheriff's surprise resignation two months before the end of her sixth term makes that punishment moot.

Housing officials report that the number of new housing units completed and occupied under Measure A is not quite 25% of the bond's goal of 4,800 new affordable housing units set in 2016.

In a 32-page report released this week, the investigation by San Francisco law firm Renne Public Law Group affirmed seven of 21 allegations Kremen that the board had accumulated from employees, most of them anonymous; rejected 10 allegations and reported there was insufficient evidence in another four.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, from the quake, which occurred along the Calaveras Fault at a depth of 6 miles.

The student, Camdan McWright, 18, was riding an electric scooter that was hit about 6:50am by a school bus at South 10th and East Reed streets, about two blocks from the campus, authorities said.

The 19-second video went viral across multiple social media platforms almost immediately after it was posted on Instagram Oct 6, first by a private individual.

The Los Gatos High School Union High School District settled a sex abuse suit for nearly $3.5 million, and the Los Gatos Elementary Union School District faces a November trial in another sex abuse lawsuit.