San Jose Inside

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

After manuevering for months, Anthony Rendon and Robert Rivas make a deal on who will be Assembly speaker in the next Legislature. Rendon will stay on, but Rivas will take over at the end of June 2023.

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.

San Jose, a million-person city in which a fifth of its residents choose the mayor, has a history of close elections. Only three of the past seven open elections could be called lopsided victories. The last time an open seat was decided in one round was 40 years ago, in 1982—the year 39-year-old Matt Mahan was born.

As of Nov. 9 with 51% of the ballots counted in the Board of Supervisors’ only contested seat, Arenas held a 3,488-vote lead over Khamis.

With 100% of 103 precincts reporting partial results, with 49% of the votes remaining to be counted, Jonsen, a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s captain, held a 7,761-vote margin over the retired sheriff’s officer.

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.

First returns before 9pm showed Newsom with 62%, and Dahle trailed with 38%, in early, unofficial returns

Here are the preliminary results for the California Legislature seats in Santa Clara County – six in the Assembly and one in the Senate

There were no surprises in the Assembly races, since Democrats outnumber all other parties and independents combined in the county. But in the 10th District Senate race, two Democrats, Lily Mei and Aisha Wahab, were in a dead heat with 100% of precincts reporting. Counting of mail-in ballots will decide the Senate seat.

Six candidates are vying for the three open seats on the council.

Measure D, a Gilroy charter amendment, would require the city to formally bid a public project that exceeds $200,000, up from the current $35,000, which was adopted in 1960. 

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

Vote Centers close at 8pm tonight, but it can take a few hours for all vote centers to report results, and weeks before the final totals are known.

If you are not sure if you are registered to vote, you can check your status at voterstatus.sos.ca.gov.