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All San Ramon Valley incumbents seeking reelection appeared poised to retain their seats based on early election night returns, as county officials continued counting ballots.
Danville
Vice Mayor Robert Storer led the field of three candidates vying for two seats on the Danville Town Council, earning 43% of the vote. Former San Ramon Police Department chief Denton Carlson appeared to be in line for the other seat with 39.5% of the vote, while Pratima Sonavne trailed at 17.3%.
San Ramon
Initial returns also showed incumbent San Ramon Mayor Mark Armstrong with a comfortable lead over his two challengers. Armstrong had 77% of the vote, followed by Paschalis Ntatsos at 14% and Emma Chigbu at 8.9%. Incumbent District 2 Councilmember Richard Adler also jumped out to a commanding lead with 71% of the vote, compared with 29% for his opponent, Chirag Kathrani. Vice Mayor and District 4 Councilmember Marisol Rubio appeared to be locked in a tighter race, though her 51.79% of the vote put her in front of challenger Jeffrey Joh at 48.21%.
Rachel Hurd, the incumbent Area 5 trustee on the San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education, had 66% of the early vote, compared with 33% for her opponent, Joel Woods.
CD 10, special-district races
The initial returns showed Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) with 71% of the vote, far outpacing Republican challenger Jeff Frese at 29% in the race to represent Congressional District 10.
Incumbent April Chan was ahead in the four-way race for the Ward 7 seat on the East Bay Municipal Utility District board, earning nearly 47% of the early vote, followed by Gary Wolff at 40.97%, Luis Reynoso at 8.1% and Joseph Grcar at 3.98%.
Sarah Butler led in the three-way race for the Contra Costa Board of Education seat representing a portion of Alamo with 72% of the vote. Donald Downey was ahead of opponent Kismat Kathrani with 66% of the vote for the Division 1 seat on the Dublin San Ramon Services District board.
Gregory Lorenz, Alan Bonny and Jessica Raefield were ahead in the four-way race for three seats on the Diablo Community Services District Board with 31.6%, 25.9% and 21.59% of the vote, respectively. Steve Lichliter trailed with 20.79% of the vote. Early election night returns accounted for 344 of the 818 Diablo voters eligible to cast ballots in that race.
The initial results were released just after polls closed at 8 p.m., accounting for vote-by-mail and early in-person votes. Additional updates are expected throughout the evening, with final results set to be certified by Dec. 3.
