Nov. 10 Election Update: Lead Flips in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale School Board Races, Hardy Continues to Lead for Mayor

Votes continue to be counted , but the candidates’ relative positions haven’t changed in Santa Clara city elections. The leads in two school board races have changed, with Kamal Yassin leading Jim Canova in Santa Clara Unified and Rommy Kushner leading Michelle Maginot in Sunnyvale School District. Karen Hardy remains the leader in the Santa Clara mayor’s race. The relative positions of the candidates haven’t changed since election night, but Kathy Watanabe has added slightly more votes than Hardy in recent counts, trimming Hardy’s lead to 412 votes. Hardy now has 6,531 votes, and her percent of the vote remains at 23%. Watanabe is now at 6,119 votes (21%), with David Kertes in third place with 5,621 (20%). Gary Ferraris and Mike Wiltberger continue to trail with 11% and 7%, respectively. Kevin Park has conceded. Kimberley Williams’ lead grew slightly in Council District 2, where she appears to be the likely winner with 2,368 votes (56%) to Yvonne Inciarte’s 1,832 (44%). SPONSORED In District 3, Planning Commission Chair Eric Crutchlow’s lead has grown slightly, with 2,244 votes (55%) to Kyle Madej’s 1,831 (45%). The lead has flipped in the Santa Clara Unified School District Trustee Area 1 race, but it is still too close to call. Challenger Kamal Yassin leads by 58 votes: 1,466 (51%) to incumbent Jim Canova’s 1,408 (49%). Canova started in the lead on election day, but that lead narrowed each day until Yassin passed him Monday . Over the weekend, Rommy Kushner took the lead in Sunnyvale School District Trustee Area 3, with 1,856 votes (51%) to Michelle Maginot’s 1,793 (49%). The Registrar reports 67,000 ballots remain to be counted. The city of Santa Clara has 62,000 registered voters, about 6% of the county’s 1,081,000 registered voters. In 2022, a total of 28,900 votes were cast in the mayor’s race, and turnout countywide was 55%. So far, 28,800 votes have been counted in this year’s mayor’s election. This update is as of Nov. 10, 5:30 p.m. The Weekly will continue to post updated results on our Facebook page as they come in. Carolyn Schuk can be reached at [email protected] .