{"id":518000,"date":"2026-11-04T06:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518000\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:56:12","slug":"oscar-valadez-leads-fullerton-city-council-district-5-race-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/518000\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Valadez leads Fullerton City Council District 5 race | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Initial counts for the Fullerton City Council District 5 race currently show Oscar Valadez as the race\u2019s frontrunner with 34.4% of votes counted as of 10:37 p.m.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">District 5 encompasses the city\u2019s downtown district, and the winner of the seat would represent the district during city council meetings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Valadez currently has 42.21% of votes, or 1,374 individual votes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Jozef Maldonado is trailing closely behind with 1,365 votes, 41.94% of counted ballots.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">David Fischbein currently holds 516 votes, totaling 15.85%.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Incumbent Ahmad Zahra announced he would not be seeking reelection earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Two of the three candidates have experience at the municipal level in Fullerton, with Maldonado serving as parks commissioner and Valadez serving as the city commissioner. Fischbein is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and a quality assurance specialist.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">All three candidates have stated campaign priorities focusing on infrastructure, improving public safety and improving city transparency.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This story is ongoing and will be updated as votes are counted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial counts for the Fullerton City Council District 5 race currently show Oscar Valadez as the race\u2019s frontrunner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2975,163,165,164,1610,12506,2628,103807],"class_list":["post-518000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-2975","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-city-council","tag-district-5","tag-fullerton","tag-midterm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518000","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=518000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}