{"id":857,"date":"2016-11-10T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=857"},"modified":"2016-11-10T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:39:31","slug":"election-results-progressives-wins-in-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Election Results – Progressives Wins in Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jesse-speaking-with-candidates\"<\/a>Arregu\u00edn Elected Mayor; Bartlett, Hahn, CALI Slate Win<\/h2>\n

While thousands of vote by mail ballots remain to be counted, it is clear that Jesse Arregu\u00edn has been elected mayor of Berkeley by large margin. His convincing 47% to 34% margin over District 5 council member Laurie Capitelli is too large to be affected by counting of additional ballots.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Sophie Hahn has a commanding lead over Capitelli-endorsed Stephen Murphy for the District 5 Council seat and Ben Bartlett has a very solid lead in District 3 over Mark Coplan and Deborah Mathews who are running neck and neck for second place.<\/p>\n

This is the biggest progressive electoral victory in many years.<\/strong> There will be a special election for Jesse Arregu\u00edn\u2019s District 4 Council seat. If a progressive wins, Jesse will have four allies on the Council and may have a fifth depending on the outcome in District 2. It\u2019s too bad that this comes with a disastrous presidential election result.<\/p>\n

District 2: It ain\u2019t over \u2013 still a tight race:\u00a0<\/b>In District 2, the initial ranked choice count gives Cheryl Davila a narrow 42 vote lead over incumbent council member Darryl Moore. It\u2019s 1838 to 1796, or 50.6% to 49.4%. Darryl had 40% of the first choice votes. Nanci Armstrong-Temple is finishing third so far with 1116 votes, only 82 votes behind Cheryl Davila. When Nanci\u2019s votes were apportioned, 640 went to Davila and 245 to Moore (231 did not make a second choice). As counting continues, Moore could regain the lead; it\u2019s also possible that Armstrong-Temple could overtake Davila for second place, in which case Davila\u2019s second choice votes would be apportioned.<\/p>\n

CALI slate sweeps Rent Board:\u00a0<\/b>The gap between Igor Tregub, now in fourth place and Judy Hunt, the landlord-backed incumbent, who was the only elected official in Berkeley to opposed affordable housing measure U1, is over 2,500 votes, large enough to ensure victory for Tregub even with thousands of vote by mail and provisional ballots to be counted.<\/p>\n

Measure U1,<\/strong> aka the Landlord Tax, has won easily despite the BPOA\u2019s $800,000+ campaign against it. It currently has 74.1% of the vote.<\/p>\n

See below for more details on the Candidate results and local measures. All counts are as of 1:40 a.m.<\/span><\/span> November 9. The next update will be Friday at 4:30pm. The County will continue updating over the next week or so until all ballots are counted. Check here for more: \u00a0http:\/\/www.acgov.org\/rov\/current_election\/230\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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Candidate Results Details<\/h3>\n
Mayor \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Winner with ballots counted so far: JESSE ARREGUIN<\/div>\n
Jesse\u00a0Arregu\u00edn<\/b> 15,885 votes (47.44% \u00a0 51.84% with ranked choice<\/strong><\/div>\n
Laurie Capitelli 11,262 votes (33.64%)<\/div>\n
Kriss Worthington \u00a0 \u00a02,816 votes (8.41%)<\/div>\n
Bernt Wahl \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 952 votes (2.84%)<\/div>\n
Ben Gould \u00a0 937 votes(2.80%)<\/div>\n
Zachary Runningwolf \u00a0 \u00a0881 votes (2.63%)<\/div>\n
Mike Lee \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 508 votes (1.52%)<\/div>\n
Naomi Pete \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 225 votes (0.67%)<\/div>\n
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Ranked choice result: Jesse at 51.84%, after second choice votes of others were counted; Kriss second choice votes were not needed. These results will update as remaining ballots are counted, but there is no likelihood that Jesse won\u2019t win.\u00a0http:\/\/www.acgov.org\/rov\/rcv\/results\/230\/rcvresults_6767.htm<\/a><\/div>\n
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District 2 City Council<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 Winner with ballots counted so far:\u00a0CHERYL DAVILA \u00a050.58% with ranked choice<\/b><\/div>\n
Darryl Moore \u00a0 1,545 (40.0%)<\/div>\n
Cheryl Davila 1,194 (30.9%)<\/div>\n
Nanci Armstrong Temple \u00a0 \u00a01,115 (28.9.%)<\/div>\n
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Ranked choice result: \u00a0Cheryl Davila with 50.58% when Nanci\u2019s second choice ballots were counted; this is close; could change when additional ballots are counted.\u00a0http:\/\/www.acgov.org\/rov\/rcv\/results\/230\/rcvresults_6868.htm<\/a><\/div>\n
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District 3 City Council<\/b><\/div>\n
Ben Bartlett 2260 \u00a0 56.9%<\/b><\/div>\n
Deborah Matthews\u00a0 81320.5%<\/div>\n
Mark Coplan \u00a0 812 20.5%<\/div>\n
Al Murray \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a081 \u00a0 \u00a02.0%<\/div>\n
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District 5 City Council<\/b><\/div>\n
Sophie Hahn 3451 61.9%<\/b><\/div>\n
Stephen Murphy 2122 38.1%<\/div>\n
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District 6 City Council<\/b><\/div>\n
Susan Wengraf 2683 60.7%<\/b><\/div>\n
Fred Dodsworth 1186 26.8%<\/div>\n
Isabelle Gaston \u00a0 553 12.5%<\/div>\n
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Rent Board<\/b>\u00a0 Winners: all members of\u00a0CALI slate<\/b>; no chance that further results will change this.<\/div>\n
Leah Simon Weisberg<\/b> 17,275\u00a0votes<\/div>\n
Alejandro Soto-Vigil<\/b> 17,201\u00a0votes<\/div>\n
Christina Murphy<\/b> <\/b>16,853\u00a0votes<\/div>\n
Igor Tegub \u00a0<\/b> <\/b>14,691\u00a0votes<\/div>\n
Judy Hunt 12,111\u00a0votes<\/div>\n
Nate Wollman \u00a0 8,158\u00a0votes<\/div>\n

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9th State Senate District:\u00a0<\/b>Nancy Skinner is way ahead of Sandre Swanson in the Alameda County portion of the district, 60.6% to 39.4%; it\u2019s 63-37 in the district as a whole.<\/p>\n

Berkeley School Board<\/b>: the two incumbents, Judy Appel (22,967 votes) and Beatriz Leyva-Cutler (17,336) were easily re-elected over challenger Abdur Sikder (4552 votes).<\/p>\n

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Local Measures Results<\/h3>\n

E-1, BSEP, parcel tax for schools<\/b>, YES 30,204 votes, <\/span>88.3%<\/p>\n

U1, tax on big landlords for affordable housing <\/b>YES \u00a024,394 votes, \u00a074.1% \u00a0(not so different from 76.2% for the soda tax in 2014)<\/p>\n

DD, phony landlord sponsored alternative to U1<\/b>, NO \u00a022,810 votes, 70.8% (that\u2019s the NOs)<\/p>\n

<\/b>T1, Bond measure<\/b> for infrastructure, parks, senior centers YES 28,865, \u00a086,5%<\/p>\n

X1, Public Financing of Elections <\/b>for Mayor and Council YES \u00a019,356 votes, 64.2%<\/p>\n

Y1, 16-17 year olds vote<\/b> for School Board YES, 21,518, 68.5%<\/p>\n

AA, regulating owner move in evictions,<\/b> YES 22,309 votes, 72.3%<\/p>\n

BB, minimum wage<\/b> $15 in 2019, NO 20,789 votes, 66.0%<\/p>\n

CC, minimum wage<\/b> $15 in 2017, NO 20,573 votes, 65.9%<\/p>\n

<\/b>A1, County Bond for affordable housing<\/b>, YES \u00a0264,499, countywide votes, 72.3%<\/p>\n

CI, AC Transit parcel tax<\/b>, YES, 190,019 votes in the district, 81.9%<\/p>\n

RR, BART bond<\/b>, YES, 253,175 votes, 70.9%<\/p>\n

\u2013by Rob Wrenn<\/em><\/p>\n

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Other Election Results:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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In other local election news, measures initiated by citizens to establish rent control programs appeared headed for victory in Richmond and Mountain View but were losing in Alameda, San Mateo and Burlingame. Similarly, soda tax measures were headed to victory in Bay Area cities, with all precincts reporting. The measures, on the ballot in San Francisco, Oakland and the East Bay suburb of Albany, place a penny-per-ounce tax on sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages.<\/p>\n

Richmond\u2019s Measure M, a new property progressive transfer tax, did not pass. Seventy percent of voters said \u2018No\u2019 to the little-discussed ballot measure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arregu\u00edn Elected Mayor; Bartlett, Hahn, CALI Slate Win While thousands of vote by mail ballots remain to be counted, it is clear that Jesse Arregu\u00edn has been elected mayor of Berkeley by large margin. His convincing 47% to 34% margin …<\/p>\n

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