All four of the Fresno City Council races appeared to be headed in the same direction as election night results after an updated vote count Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Some mail-in votes remain to be counted countywide. Another update can be expected sometime next week. Fresno County Clerk\/Registrar of Voters James Kus said he plans to certify the election by June 26.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an updated look at the vote count for the four Fresno City Council races as of 2:32 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Fresno City Council District 1 race<\/p>\n
State Center Community College Trustee Rob Fuentes remains in the lead with 37.30%. Central Unified Trustee Naindeep Singh is in a close second with 36.08%. They appear to be headed to a November runoff.<\/p>\n
Two other candidates were vying for the spot to replace outgoing Councilmember Annalisa Perea, who is running for State Assembly. Joe Hinojosa was next in line with 13.23%, and Monte Forkas had 13.05%.<\/p>\n
Fresno City Council District 3 race<\/p>\n
State Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula remains in the lead with 28.23%, followed by Fresno Unified Trustee Keshia Thomas at 26.85% in another tight race. Both appear to be headed to a November runoff.<\/p>\n
A total of seven candidates were vying for the spot to replace outgoing Councilmember Miguel Arias. Former West Park Elementary School Board Trustee Fernando Alvarez was in third with 15.92%.<\/p>\n
Fresno City Council District 5 race<\/p>\n
Incumbent Brandon Vang\u2019s slim majority lead has stuck, which increased slightly to 52.21% as of Thursday\u2019s updated count. If it holds, Vang will win outright. If not, a runoff with State Center Community College Trustee Danielle Parra, who is in second at 30.48%, is plausible.<\/p>\n
The two other challengers, Jose Leon Barraza, a former Fresno County Director of Economic Development, snagged 11.97% of the vote, and entrepreneur Nickolas Wildstar grabbed 5.11% as of Thursday\u2019s count.<\/p>\n
Fresno City Council District 7 race<\/p>\n
Nav Gurm, an attorney and former City Hall staffer, remains in the lead with 38.36%. Community Activist Ariana Martinez Lott was still following closely behind at 36.83%. They appear to be headed for a November runoff.<\/p>\n
Business advocate AJ Rassamni remains in third with 15.76% in the race to succeed termed-out Councilmember Nelson Esparza, who is running for the Board of Equalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All four of the Fresno City Council races appeared to be headed in the same direction as election…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,8019,622,114,113,14569,142446,46459],"class_list":["post-347623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city-council","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-unified","tag-state-center-community-college-trustee","tag-vote-count"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347623","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=347623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}