{"id":344314,"date":"2026-06-03T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344314\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T07:30:09","slug":"macedo-leads-primary-in-33rd-assembly-district-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344314\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedo leads primary in 33rd Assembly District race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incumbent Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo maintained a commanding lead throughout primary night in the 33rd District that straddles Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties.<\/p>\n

The Tulare Republican pulled down 64.5% through multiple updates for a win in the San Joaquin Valley. Democratic challenger Hipolito Angel Cerros, the former mayor of Lindsay, had acquired 35.5% as the numbers became public after 8 p.m. Tuesday. Macedo maintained her lead through 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State\u2019s Office reported 35,328 ballots cast in through 11:30 p.m. There are 219,592 registered voters in the district split among the three counties.<\/p>\n

Macedo first won election in 2024 after the retirement of Republican Devon Mathis, who served a decade in office. A Portuguese-American, Macedo is a small business owner and attorney with roots in agriculture.<\/p>\n

She had far out-raised her opponent in campaign contributions with $1.2 million as of May 29, according to the Secretary of State\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Cerros did not have any campaign contributions paperwork listed on the Secretary of State\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After college, Macedo joined the family business with Macedo Engineering & Consulting Inc., which works with crop and dairy farmers for \u201cenvironmental compliance assistance and consulting along with agricultural design and project management,\u201d according to her website.<\/p>\n

Cerros was the youngest-ever person elected to office in Lindsay in 2022, when his fellow council members voted him to be mayor at age 24. He had previously joined the Lindsay City Council in 2020 after graduating from UC Davis.<\/p>\n

Lindsay has what\u2019s commonly referred to as a weak mayor system, in which the mayor is not elected independently by voters but rather chosen by a vote among council members. Clovis, for example, uses that kind of system, which differs from the strong mayor system in Fresno.<\/p>\n

The members of the council also voted to remove Cerros from the mayor\u2019s role in 2024, according to reporting by the Sun Gazette<\/a>. He previously pulled papers to run in the 33rd District but dropped out of the race that Macedo ultimately won.<\/p>\n

\"Former Former Lindsay Mayor Hipolito Angel Cerros, left, from the city\u2019s Facebook posted on May 3, 2023 and Assembly Member Alexandra Macedo, R-Tulare, from Macedos\u2019 website. <\/p>\n

This story was originally published June 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM.<\/p>\n

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Reporter Thaddeus Miller has covered cities in the central San Joaquin Valley since 2010, writing about everything from breaking news to government and police accountability. A native of Fresno, he joined The Fresno Bee in 2019 after time in Merced and Los Banos.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incumbent Assemblymember Alexandra Macedo maintained a commanding lead throughout primary night in the 33rd District that straddles Fresno,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-344314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}