{"id":366412,"date":"2026-06-18T23:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T23:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:51:13","slug":"wahab-qualifies-for-run-off-election-to-succeed-swalwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366412\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahab qualifies for run-off election to succeed Swalwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California state Senator Aisha Wahab of Hayward has advanced to a special election to replace former U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell in the 14th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Complete, but unofficial results from the <a href=\"https:\/\/alamedacountyca.gov\/rovresults\/261\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alameda County Registrar of Voters<\/a> show Wahab with about 43% of the vote. Final results are not expected for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If Wahab fails to reach a majority, she will face the next-highest vote-getter in a special August 18 runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Two contenders could be BART Board Director and former Dublin Mayor Melissa Hernandez. In third place is Rakhi Israni Singh.<\/p>\n<p>If none of the candidates from the June 2 election wins more than 50% of the vote, the two highest vote-getters will compete in a November 3 runoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California state Senator Aisha Wahab of Hayward has advanced to a special election to replace former U.S. Representative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-366412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366412","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=366412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}