Oakland – Barbara Lee, the congresswoman withdrawn by supporters as a stabilizing force for a city in a leadership crisis, Hasbet chose the next mayor of Oakland about former member of the Loren Taylor Council, the last released French.
Read Hero to 52.6% to 47.3% on Taylor in the classified choice results, a difference of almost 5,000 votes, in the new yields. It has a bit of about 50% of the votes of the first place to 45% of Taylor, a majority that would give it the victory directly, without instant runoff, if it is a hero in the final results of the elections.
“The results of tonight are encouraging,” Lee said in a campaign statement on Friday. “I decided to run for the mayor to know that Oakland is a deeply divided city, and I ran to unite our community.”
Charlene Wang came out victorious in a race for a seat of the City Council of Oakland, leading the runner-up Kara Murray-Badal from 59% to 40% in the results of a classified option. She will represent District 2, covered by Chinatown, Jack London Square and areas near Lake Merritt, including the neighborhood Eastlake and San Antonio.
Voters also approved 65% a measure of sales taxes aimed at relieving the budgetary crisis of the city.
Alameda County Electoral Officials said Tuesday that they had counted all available tickets. They are expected to arrive more by mail on the weekend, but the county registrar or voters Tim Dupuis said the office received only 90 new tickets on Friday.
The county also needs to cure about 300 tickets that were presented improvisedly before arriving at the Elections Office.
The number of outstanding votes does not seem to be enough for Taylor to overcome its deficit against Lee, who will now lead a city faced a leadership vacuum after the elimination of former SHENG Thao reach last November.
The power of Lee’s political star made her the first favorite, but faced a formidable challenge of Taylor, who took an early advantage in the night of the elections, as he did before losing to Thao in the 2022 elections.
Before Friday’s results, Taylor’s campaign issued a statement thanking his followers for “being with us, for appearing and reminding us what is possible when we do this together.” Taylor and his campaign officials did not immediately respond the telephone calls on Friday night of this news organization.
Taylor and Lee were widely seen as clues in the race of 10 candidates. Only another candidate takes them 1% of the votes after Friday returns. If the voting factor classified in the final results, they are likely to favor Lee, who has had the advantage since the night of the elections.
The mayor’s career carried high bets, with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by unions that backed Lee and for rich technology and finance that support Taylor.
Taylor made clear his intention to run again for the mayor long before the election of Retiro de Thao in November, while the rumors of Lee’s candidacy advanced before the elimination of the former scope became official in December.
The exaggeration of the former congressman was so strong that several possible candidates left the consultation as soon as he entered the race. Taylor, he thought, continued the campaign, a impulse reflected in the pre -electoral surveys that indicated that the race was tight.
On the path of the campaign, Lee promised to unify work and businesses in a city deeply grew deeply the possession of Thao, while Taylor promised to bring a demolition ball to a city government that described as fundamentally broken.
Each tried to represent the other as the choice of the establishment, with Lee collecting generalized political backups when he was again a full -time Oakland resident after 26 years legislating in Washington, DC
Lee’s supporters, in turn, painted Taylor as a “partial town hall source” to the blame of the dangerous budget deficit of the city.
Taylor, who fulfilled a four -year council mandate until 2022, was more interested in mentioning his background as a business consultant and biomedical engineer. He did not avoid his alliances in the technological world, which recently began to spend large in the elections of the Bay area.
Lee and Taylor did not disagree with many specific policies in the city, in addition to whether layoffs would be an option to resolve the city’s budget deficit.
However, there was a clear division in which the respective voters of the candidates live.
Lee leads in the enclosures throughout the west of Oakland, the center of the city and the great strip of the city east of Lake Merritt, to the plains to the border of San Leandro.
Taylor’s support was much more concentrated in the Oakland hills, where the typically richer and more politically moderate communities see a much higher voter participation than in low -income neighborhoods.
Shomik Mukherjee is a reporter that covers Oakland. Call it or send a text message to 510-905-5495 or send an email to shomik@bayareenewsgroup.com.
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