{"id":344453,"date":"2026-06-03T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344453\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:19:14","slug":"incumbent-vang-has-slim-majority-in-fresno-council-district-5-race-will-there-be-a-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344453\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent Vang has slim majority in Fresno council District 5 race. Will there be a runoff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno City Councilman Brandon Vang maintained a slim majority Tuesday in his re-election bid for his District 5 seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It appears Vang is all but certain to advance to the November general election, with a major question Tuesday night determining who, or if, another candidate will force a November runoff in the General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of 11:03 p.m. Tuesday, State Center Community College Trustee Danielle Parra trailed behind Vang. He gained 51.99% of the vote, while Para received 30.46%.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"District 5 candidate Danielle Parra, center, is seen at a campaign gathering at Sequoia Brewing in the Tower District Tuesday night, June 2, 2026 in Fresno.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"615\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6eec0c960f4edf2fb4943b4fe42cbed.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>District 5 candidate Danielle Parra, center, is seen at a campaign gathering at Sequoia Brewing in the Tower District Tuesday night, June 2, 2026 in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Former Fresno County Director of Economic Development Jose Leon Barraza was next in line with 12.14% of the vote, and entrepreneur Nickolas Wildstar was last with 5.14%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To secure a seat, a candidate must receive over 50% of the vote Tuesday. If no one gets a majority of the vote, the top two candidates will advance to the general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vang was first sworn into office on April 10, 2025, becoming the first person of Hmong descent to represent District 5 and the second person in the history of the Fresno City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He received just over 50% of the vote in a special election last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the incumbent, Vang has been endorsed by some labor groups including the Fresno Teachers Association and the Fresno City Employees Association. Para is Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer\u2019s pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">District 5 encompasses a large portion of southeast Fresno, including neighborhoods including Sunnyside, Roosevelt, and Fancher Creek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story and will be updated as votes come in through Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno City Councilman Brandon Vang maintained a slim majority Tuesday in his re-election bid for his District 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[65511,141532,112,57009,8019,114,113,141531,33097,71617],"class_list":["post-344453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-brandon-vang","tag-development-jose-leon-barraza","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city","tag-fresno-city-council","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-slim-majority","tag-state-center-community-college","tag-vang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344453","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=344453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}