As of today, Dave Cortese held strong with nearly 33 percent of the vote against 20 percent for former FEC chair Ann Ravel.

The former Brigade CEO, who enjoyed backing from Mayor Sam Liccardo and SVO, had nearly 58 percent of the vote today.

With 85 percent of precincts reporting, David Cohen maintained a four-point lead with 37 percent of the vote.

The D8 incumbent secured her front-runner status and eschewed the need for a runoff with close to 58 percent of the vote. 

Though Dev Davis took a commanding lead, she still falls below the simple majority threshold to win the race outright.

Kansen Chu garnered more than a third of the total vote count, a haul of 13,135 ballots, while Otto Lee hung back at 28 percent.

Super Tuesday got off to a strong start in Santa Clara County with more than 8,000 voters casting their ballots by noon.

In the last installment of our primary election series, we move to the 15th State Senate District, where seven people are in the running.

Candidates are knocking on doors while their sign-carrying minions work the phone banks in a last-ditch effort to #GetOutTheVote.

Supervisor Dave Cortese’s impending departure from the county board has drawn a crowded field of aspiring successors.

The motivations for a directly-elected mayor are the same as ever—concentration of power, self-interest and personal ambitions.

Jenny Higgins Bradanini, Matt Mahan and Helen Wang are vying to replace Councilman Johnny Khamis in the Almaden Valley district.

We’re sure it has nothing to do with the $2.5 million the media scion gifted San Jose through his American Cities Climate Challenge.

The ballot initiative took center stage at a town hall on what city officials describe as “dark money” pouring into local elections.

In District 8, Councilwoman Sylvia Arenas is squaring off with her old Evergreen School Board colleague, Jim Zito.

The state’s top elections official showed up in Mission City today to denounce an effort to shrink the number of council districts.