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Pleasanton mayoral, council and school board candidates remain fixed in their same spots as Tuesday night, albeit with slight changes to some leads and margins, according to the latest round of election results from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters’ Office.
As of 5 p.m. Thursday, Councilmember Karla Brown continues to lead in the mayoral race with 10,742 votes, or 47.64% — a slight uptick from the 47.50% she held on Election Night, as county officials continue to tally eligible ballots.
Brown has also maintained a slightly more than 12% lead the entire time over fellow council member Jerry Pentin, who currently has 7,932 votes (35.18%). Like Brown, Pentin also holds the same percentage of ballots, more or less, since Election Night.
Tech product manager Monith Ilavarasan received about 400 more votes as of Thursday, for a total 2,193 counted so far. The extra votes boosted Ilavarasan’s total share of mayoral votes by about one-half percent to 9.73% overall.
For the other two mayoral candidates, Druthi Ghanta has 4.92% of the vote and Tom Turpel is at 2.29%.
The top candidates for two open seats on the Pleasanton City Council stayed fixed in their Election Night order, with Pleasanton school board trustee Valerie Arkin’s lead growing with 9,255 votes received overall (23.99%).
Planning Commissioner Jack Balch’s second-place advantage shrunk negligibly; he now sits at 22.06% (down from 22.13% on Election Night) but gained 1,259 additional votes for a current count of 8,511.
That influx of ballots did widen the margin between Balch and fellow planning commissioner Nancy Allen, who now has 7,960 votes (20.63%).
The other candidates are Randy Brown (11.08%), Zarina Kiziloglu (8.63%), Chiman Lee (7.39%) and Jarod Buna (6.06%).
Pleasanton school board president Steve Maher has stayed ahead of the other four candidates running for three Pleasanton Unified School District Trustee positions, with 15,670 voters (30.25%) so far casting ballots for the former principal for a second term.
Retired schoolteacher Mary Jo Carreon remains in second with 10,391 ballots (20.06%), while parent and Youth Commission adult member Kelly Mokashi has gained more distance between her and incumbent Trustee Jamie Yee for the third seat.
The race between Mokashi and Yee for the final board seat still has Mokashi in third place with 9,680 votes (18.69%). Mokashi received 1,560 of those votes during the most recent wave of results.
Yee performed similarly, gaining more than 1,699 votes since Tuesday’s totals, but now holds 17.31% of the vote instead of 17.42% like on Election Night.
Newcomer Chong Wang received another 1,098 ballots in Thursday’s update, bumping his share of the election vote from 13.47% to 13.51%.
County election officials said they plan to release election results updates daily by 5 p.m. until the count is finalized. It is unclear exactly how many eligible ballots are pending in Alameda County.
The Registrar of Voters’ Office stated on social media Thursday that 724,399 vote-by-mail ballots have been returned — about 75% of those issued — but did not say how many ballots remain to be tallied countywide. They reported having counted 393,687 vote-by-mail ballots so far, plus 46,150 ballots cast on Election Day, for an overall voter turnout of 45.53% to date.
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The above data shows the following vote count:
Mayor votes – 22,494
Council votes – 38,520
PUSD votes – 51,705
Should we expect that there will be another 20,000 votes that have not been counted for the mayor race?
No. For the council and school board, you voted for more than one person (council was 2, school board was 3). Mayor is a one person vote.
OK, I get it.
Any idea, how many votes remain to be counted?
No. When I ran in 2016, the county indicated there would be updates, usually each day, at 5:00 p.m. until all the votes were counted. Problem is/was that they are counting the whole county and Pleasanton’s votes are a drop in the bucket compared with Oakland. Shifts were small.
Why is there no update, today after 1700 hours?
Last update was yesterday just before 5:00 p.m.