For Gabby Chavez-Lopez to make up the initial 2,036-vote ballot deficit, she would have needed to get nearly 85% of the estimated 3,000 uncounted District 3 ballots.
The tally reported at 8:45pm showed Anthony Tordillos with 4,449 votes, and Gabby Chavez-Lopez with 2,413 votes, representing 14.62% of the downtown district's registered voters.
In contrast to the nearly $1.2 million spent by and for the top three candidates in the initial four-month campaign for the coveted downtown council seat, spending for the campaigns of Gabby Chavez-Lopez and Anthony Tordillos has totalled just over $70,000 since the April 8 vote.
The recount of the April 8 Special Election, required by the narrow margin at the close of regular vote tallies, showed Gabby Chavez-Lopez with 2,712 votes, Anthony Tordillos with 2006 votes and Matthew Quevedo with 2000 votes.
The New York Times today put the mayor in the national spotlight for leading the city council in a plan to threaten homeless people who don’t accept offers of shelter, saying it’s the latest sign of frustrations over tent encampments in California.
In the April 10 5pm update, the county Registrar of Voters reported Gabby Chavez-Lopez had widened her lead as vote-counting neared its final total in race dominated the PAC spending.
Here are the District 3 leaders after the last Election Day vote count:
Gabby Chavez-Lopez 2,087
Matthew Quevedo 1,592
Anthony Tordillos 1,433
Irene Smith 1,186
The convictions of Omar Torres stole the headlines from Election Day voting to replace the former council member, who resigned in November shortly before his arrest.
Starting Saturday, March 29, two Vote Centers will be open daily from 9am to 5pm through April 7 at the Joyce Ellington Branch Library Community Room and the Olinder Community Center Community Room.
The City Council pledged an undetermined amount of new financial support for the Rapid Response Network, co-founded by the city in 2016 to track actions by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, providing on-the-spot counseling and legal assistance to undocumented immigrants.
Seven candidates qualified as candidates for the April special election. The council had decided that no person could seek election to the coveted downtown council seat if they also sought appointment to the interim seat.
If no candidate receives a majority on April 8, the top two candidates will run against each other in a special runoff election on June 24. The winner will serve the remainder of the term through 2026.
For the last four years, Foley has chaired the Community and Economic Development Committee, a body focused on managing the growth and change of San Jose in order to encourage a strong economy.
The City Council today formally approved the dates for both appointing and electing a replacement for the disgraced former first-term council member, Omar Torres.
