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May 21, 2013 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

SD16: Down to the wire.

Two special elections today…. In the SD-16 Special Primary, candidate Andy Vidak is in a close race to avoid a run-off on July 23rd. With 45% of precincts reporting, Vidak leads Leticia Perez 52.1%  to 40.9% with three other candidates making up the balance of the total. The significance of this special election rolling on to July is that […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: Andy Vidak, election results, Leticia Perez, Lorena Gonzalez, Special Election, State Senate

January 8, 2013 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

La Malfa Vacancy: Nielsen wins Special Election

Nine weeks ago, I wrote this article when it appeared that Jim Nielsen had received just over 50% of the vote in the Special Primary Election. He ended falling up a couple hundred votes short, so after correcting that first post, I’m going to rerelease it again tonight: With Jim Nielsen receiving nearly two thirds of […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: Assemblyman, California, Doug La Malfa, Election, Election Day, House of Representatives, Jim Nielsen, Special Election, State Senate

November 14, 2012 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

JoinCalifornia Correction

I have moved the SD-05 race between Bill Berryhill and Cathleen Galgiani back to “undecided” column on JoinCalifornia’s 2012 Election Results page. Apparently the race has closed significantly in the last few days of counting provisional ballots.

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Corrections, Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Senate Tagged With: Bill Berryhill, Cathleen Galgiani, State Senate, Stockton

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