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Dublin Vice Mayor Sherry Hu is poised to take the City Council’s helm after maintaining a persistent lead in the mayoral race.
Hu, who is coming to the end of her fourth year in a regular council seat, announced victory in recent days — having gathered 36.35% of the vote (9,264 ballots) in the four-candidate contest, according to the latest results tally from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ Office.
“I am deeply honored to be elected as Dublin’s new Mayor,” Hu said in a statement. “My priorities of public safety, economic growth, quality community programs, and support for education resonated strongly with voters. I am eager to collaborate with my fellow Councilmembers to make Dublin a city we are all proud to call home.”
While an estimated 17,675 ballots across all of Alameda County remain uncounted, as reported on the California Secretary of State website, any switch-up in the Dublin mayoral order is unlikely since Hu leads with about 1,000 votes over second-place Tom Evans, who has clocked in with 8,268 votes (32.44%).
“The mayoral race was not a runaway victory. No one candidate received a majority,” Evans said. “I ran in order to offer Dublin voters a change in how the city of Dublin handles certain aspects of government, particularly with land use. Apparently, only 32% were comfortable with change and the rest were happy with the local government of the past 4-6 years.”
“The top three candidates each had ample support, but in the end more people picked Sherry Hu than either of the other two,” Evans added. “I assume that voters agree with, for the most part, her tough stand against crime, her support of annexing and developing land between Dublin and Livermore, her support of parks, reducing affordable for-sale housing in exchange for small land parcels, adding thousands of dollars to future new-home residents’ property tax bills in order to help the developer.”
Fellow Councilmember Jean Josey, who is polling in third at 7,130 votes (27.98%), is set to continue her leadership as-is after campaigning for mayor in the middle of her second term on the council.
“While the outcome is not what my campaign wanted, I am so grateful for the support along the way,” she wrote in a Facebook post on Nov. 7. “Please know that in my final two years on City Council, I will continue to work for all of Dublin.”
Fourth-place candidate Shawn Costello said he was disappointed to lose but appreciative of the support he did receive.
“I’m happy with the votes that I got,” said Costello, with 825 votes, or 3.24%. “Thank you very much to everyone for voting for me.”
Hu will succeed Michael McCorriston, who stepped in as interim mayor in June after Melissa Hernandez resigned her mayoral position to join the BART Board of Directors. McCorriston opted to run for reelection to his prior council seat rather than for a full term as mayor in the Nov. 5 election, winning the District 1 post unopposed.
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