former staff member accused her of sexual harassment<\/a>, an allegation a Senate investigation later found was not substantiated.<\/p>\nMost other Sacramento-area incumbents cruised to strong leads in their legislative races. The latest results as of Tuesday evening:<\/p>\n
Senate races<\/p>\n
In the 6th Senate District, incumbent Sen. Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, held a comfortable lead with 56.3% of the vote. Democrats Sean Frame and Sara Velasco trailed with 28.5% and 15.2%, respectively. The 6th Senate District includes Roseville, Folsom and Galt.<\/p>\n
Sacramento Democratic incumbent Sen. Angelique Ashby posted the strongest performance among Sacramento-area Senate candidates, earning 68% of the vote in the 8th Senate District. Republican Susan Mason received 27.4%, while Peace and Freedom Party candidate Linda Roberts garnered 4.6%.<\/p>\n
Assembly races<\/p>\n
In the 5th Assembly District, incumbent Joe Patterson, R-Lincoln, led Democrat Neva Parker 60.1% to 39.9%. The district includes Roseville and communities in the Placer foothills.<\/p>\n
Sacramento Democratic incumbent Maggy Krell dominated the 6th Assembly District, receiving 85.9% of the vote to challenger Jagtar Singh\u2019s 14.1%. The district covers Sacramento and Arden Arcade.<\/p>\n
The 7th Assembly District produced one of the region\u2019s tightest races. Incumbent Josh Hoover, R-Folsom, held 51% of the vote, narrowly ahead of Democrat Amy Slavensky at 47.1%. American Independent Party candidate Sanaz Motamedi received 2%. The 7th Assembly District includes Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova.<\/p>\n
In the 10th Assembly District, incumbent Stephanie Nguyen, D-Elk Grove, secured 71.5% of the vote, defeating Republican challenger Vinaya Singh, who received 28.5%. The district encompasses Elk Grove and portions of Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Similar to congressional races, but unlike county-level elections, the top two vote-getters will advance to the November election regardless of whether either candidate wins a majority of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil appeared headed for defeat Tuesday, trailing two challengers in the 4th Senate District primary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[125875,144727,121,123,122,129778],"class_list":["post-354865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-assembly-district","tag-legislative-races","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-senate-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354865","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=354865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}