Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez appears poised to lose his reelection bid, with City Councilmember Claudia Jimenez and Ahmad Anderson seemingly headed to a runoff in November based on unofficial election results.
“I’m feeling good that the early results show me leading this, but it’s still a lot of other votes that we need to count,” Jimenez told KQED on Wednesday. “People believe and see what I have done. I am not just saying what I will do, but I am saying, look at this, is what I had done.”
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Jimenez, who represents the North and East Richmond neighborhoods on the City Council, appeared to be the frontrunner with 34% of the vote, according to results posted by Contra Costa County early Wednesday. Anderson, who has positioned himself as a more moderate alternative to Jimenez and Martinez, was in the second spot, with 28.64% of the vote.
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