There's a new sheriff in town: Yesenia Sanchez completes a historic upset of Sheriff Greg Ahern
Alysse Castro is the new Alameda County Superintendent of Schools; Alameda's Measure B passes
ELECTION 2022
—RESULTS UPDATE—In one of the most shocking upsets in Alameda County electoral history, Yesenia Sanchez has upended the long-standing countywide status quo with an outright victory over incumbent Sheriff Greg Ahern.
—With nearly all of the votes counted after today’s update of the June 7 election results, Sanchez defied prognosticators who viewed a November runoff against Ahern as her best-case scenario, with a rousing victory. There will be no runoff in November. There will be no Ahern in the sheriff’s office after this December.
—Sanchez earned more than 52 percent of the vote, which is enough to avoid a November rematch with Ahern. The result was unthinkable even just weeks ago and my be a signal to other aging Alameda County elected officials that they are in the midst of a changing of the guard in county politics.
—ANOTHER UPSET—Alysse Castro also reorganized county government after upsetting incumbent Alameda County Superintendent of Schools L.K. Monroe. Backed by labor, Castro provided another rare rebuke of an incumbent Alameda County official.
—After narrowly trailing Monroe after early returns were released a week ago, Castro stormed back to defeat Monroe by more than four points, 52.89 percent to 47.11 percent.
—PASSAGE SECURED—Alameda’s Measure B, a $298 million school facilities bond, narrowly survived a scare, notching the 55 percent threshold for passage with 55.86 percent of the vote. Measure B had been underwater for most of the week before trending upward over the past few days.
—With today’s results, the November election rematches are now set:
ALCO DA: Pamela Price vs. Terry Wiley
ALCO SUPES-DIST. 3: Rebecca Kaplan vs. LenaTam
AD16: Rebecca Bauer-Kahan vs. Joe Rubay
AD20: Liz Ortega vs. Shawn Kumagai
AD24: Alex Lee vs. Bob Brunton
SD10: Lily Mei vs. Aisha Wahab
CA12: Barbara Lee vs. Stephen Slauson
CA15: Eric Swalwell vs. Alison Hayden
CA17: Ro Khanna vs. Ritesh Tandon
—Below is Tuesday’s updated results:
ELECTION RESULTS UPDATE
ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Pamela Price 109,700 42.81% (+1.15)
Terry Wiley 70,125 27.36% (-1.03)
Jimmie Wilson 50,587 19.74% (-.76)
Seth Steward 25,851 10.02% (-.02)
ALAMEDA COUNTY SHERIFF
Yesenia Sanchez 133,628 52.69% (+0.64)
Greg Ahern 79,853 31.49% (-0.79)
JoAnn Walker 40,140 15.83% (+.16)
ALCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS-DISTRICT 3
Rebecca Kaplan 18,698 40.95% (+.60)
Lena Tam 12,925 28.30% (-.80)
David Kakishiba 8,282 18.14% (-.18)
Surlene Grant 5,760 12.61% (+.29)
ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Alysse Castro 122,851 52.89% (+.96)
L.K. Monroe 109,407 47.11% (-.96)
ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION-AREA 7
Cheryl Cook-Kallio 20,664 53.23% (-.67)
Kate Dao 10,165 26.18% (+1.00)
Eric Dillie 7,992 20.59% (-.45)
10TH STATE SENATE DISTRICT (Including Santa Clara Co.)
Lily Mei 45,809 33.20% (-.60)
Aisha Wahab 41,199 30.0% (+1.00)
Paul Pimentel 29,687 21.50% (-.10)
Jamal Khan 10,087 7.30% (-.20)
Raymond Liu 6,736 4.90% (-.10)
Jim Canova 4,262 3.10% (-.10)
16TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT (Incl. Contra Costa Co.)
Rebecca Bauer-Kahan 72,830 67.0% (0)
Joe Rubay 35,832 33.0% (0)
20TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT
Liz Ortega 22,194 32,08% (+.12)
Shawn Kumagai 16,738 24.20% (-.80)
Jennifer Esteen 15,207 21.98% (+.56)
Joe Grcar 15,035 21.74% (+.12)
24TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT (Incl. Santa Clara Co.)
Alex Lee 25,708 38.50% (-.30)
Bob Brunton 14,247 21.40% (+.20)
Kansen Chu 12,277 18.40% (-.30)
Teresa Keng 9,365 14.00% (+1.00)
Lan Diep 5,169 7.70% (-.60)
ALAMEDA-MEASURE B (Alameda USD facilities bond measure)
YES 10,469 55.86% (+.60) (55% to pass)
NO 8,274 44.14% (-.60)
OAKLAND-MEASURE (Library parcel tax)
YES 60,733 82.09% (+.05) (66.7% to pass)
NO 13,250 17.91% (-.05)
