results posted early Wednesday morning<\/a>. Both state senators and three members of the state Assembly seeking re-election were also leading.<\/p>\nSacramento City Council<\/p>\n
The most competitive race at Sacramento City Hall was in North Natomas, where Councilmember Lisa Kaplan is seeking a second term in District 1. Kaplan had earned 53% of the vote as of early Wednesday and needs to remain above 50% to avoid a November runoff.<\/p>\n
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Kaplan, in a statement to Abridged, said she was \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about the results. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe results tonight show that my hard work and accomplishments for my community are recognized,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, the results are still early, but I feel cautiously optimistic this race will be over in June.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jennifer Chawla, a former FBI investigative specialist and political newcomer, received 42% of the vote as of Wednesday. <\/p>\n
In the city\u2019s District 7, covering the Pocket\/Greenhaven and Land Park area, incumbent Rick Jennings had a healthy lead over a pair of challengers. Jennings had received 56% of the vote in early returns.<\/p>\n
Councilmember Karina Talamantes secured another term on the City Council after running unopposed. Councilmember Caity Maple also appeared headed for re-election; she had 63% of the vote as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n
California Senate and Assembly races<\/p>\n
Both state Senators who represent significant portions of Sacramento County had comfortable leads on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sen. Angelique Ashby had received roughly 63% of the vote, building a significant cushion over her two challengers to represent a district covering the cities of Sacramento and Elk Grove. Meanwhile, Sen. Roger Niello, whose district covers eastern Sacramento County and southern Placer County, was closing in on a victory after securing 59% of the early vote.<\/p>\n
Two local assemblymembers had built hefty leads and a third appeared to be on a path toward victory.<\/p>\n
Assemblymember Maggy Krell had received 84% of the vote as of Wednesday to earn another term in her Sacramento-based district. Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen had 68% of the vote in the district covering Elk Grove and South Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Assemblymember Josh Hoover was leading with 54% of the vote in his district, which covers Sacramento\u2019s eastern suburbs, including Folsom, Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks and Rancho Cordova.<\/p>\n
Other Sacramento races<\/p>\n
Epidemiologist Flojaune Cofer and Sacramento City Council member Eric Guerra appear headed for a November runoff<\/a> for the Sacramento Board of Supervisors District 1 seat; neither was close to receiving the required 50% to avoid a runoff. Cofer had 39% of the early vote, followed by Guerra\u2019s 30%.<\/p>\nSupervisor Patrick Kennedy earned a fourth term in District 2 and Supervisor Pat Hume, who ran unopposed, won a second term.<\/p>\n
Ryan Lillis is the Associate General Manager of News at PBS KVIE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: Candidates seeking re-election for local and statewide positions in Sacramento County were leading in early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-345509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345509","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=345509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}