{"id":353935,"date":"2026-06-10T01:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:03:08","slug":"kaplan-above-runoff-threshold-as-vote-count-nears-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353935\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan above runoff threshold as vote count nears finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incumbent City Councilmember Lisa Kaplan maintained a commanding lead and appeared poised for an outright victory in the race for North Natomas\u2019 1st District, according to updated county election results released Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Polls closed a week ago and ballot counting continued steadily. Roughly 23,000 ballots remain to be tallied, with the majority of the vote count expected to be completed by Friday, said Ken Casparis, a county elections spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s update showed incumbent Lisa Kaplan with a 10.6-percentage-point lead over challenger Jenn Chawla as Kaplan sought re-election in the 1st District. With 52.7% of the vote, the incumbent Sacramento City Councilmember appeared to have secured the majority needed to avoid a runoff election and win outright.<\/p>\n

The same could not be said in the race for the Board of Supervisors\u2019 seat for 1st District.<\/p>\n

In the race to replace Phil Serna, epidemiologist and former Sacramento mayoral candidate Flo Cofer expanded her sizable lead<\/a> over rival and Sacramento City Councilmember Eric Guerra compared to Friday\u2019s returns. Still, she remained below the threshold to avoid a November runoff.<\/p>\n

Cofer had garnered 45.6% of the vote, compared to Guerra\u2019s 29.4%.<\/p>\n

A far tighter race also persisted in the battle for Area 3 on the Sacramento County Board of Education. Annie Fischer led with 50.1% of the vote \u2014 59 votes ahead of Paul Keefer, who held 49.9%. On Friday, Keefer held a 2.8-percentage-point lead over Fischer with 51.4% of the vote.<\/p>\n

In most other key races, incumbents maintained comfortable leads from Friday\u2019s update, enough to avoid a rematch in November.<\/p>\n

In the 2nd Supervisorial District, incumbent Patrick Kennedy held 64.1% of the vote, compared with Ronnie Bell, who had 19.6%. Brian Lajda received 16.4%.<\/p>\n

In Sacramento\u2019s 5th District City Council race, incumbent Caity Maple held 68.4% of the vote toward her re-election \u2014 more than 51 percentage points ahead of Henry Harry, who held 16.7%. Santiago Mario Morales Jr. trailed with 14.9% of the vote.<\/p>\n

In the City Council\u2019s 7th District, incumbent Rick Jennings held 56.8% of the vote. Scott Lau received 27.3%, while Mark R. Velasquez trailed with 16%.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento County Board of Education\u2019s Area 1 race, Dominique Donette expanded her lead with 37.8% of the vote. Anna Molander Hermann held 28.8%, while Davon Thomas received 25.6%. Ralph Merletti trailed with 7.9%.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Reeti Malhotra<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Reeti Malhotra is a 2026 summer reporting intern for The Sacramento Bee covering breaking news. She is a junior at Yale University, where she works as a city beat reporter and personal essay staff writer for the Yale Daily News.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incumbent City Councilmember Lisa Kaplan maintained a commanding lead and appeared poised for an outright victory in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-353935","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\/353935","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=353935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}