Hayward Mayor Mark Salinas holds a wide early lead.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Hayward City Hall. Photo: Pi.1415926535 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
These are early, unofficial returns from NBC Bay Area's Alameda County results page. Totals were cross-checked against ABC7's results page, which matched or ran slightly ahead in its later updates.
Hayward Mayor
Mark Salinas: 75.31% (15,930)
Tom Wong: 24.69% (5,222)
Hayward City Council, District 1
George Syrop: 56.66% (2,272)
Brian Schott: 43.34% (1,738)
ABC7 marks Salinas and Syrop as incumbents.
All results are unofficial election-night and early-morning counts as of Wednesday, Nov. 4. Counties keep counting mail and provisional ballots for days, and certification comes later, so margins can shift, especially in close contests.
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Hayward Mayor Mark Salinas is seeking a second term against Tom Wong, a private security businessman and Alameda County Republican Party leader, with the city's budget deficit at the center of the race. Council District 1 has a contest between George Syrop and Brian Schott, while Julie Roche is unopposed in District 6.
The Nov. 3 measure swaps flat fees and employee counts for gross-receipts rates of $0.30 to $3.75 per $1,000, with a $60 minimum, and is projected to raise about $12 million more a year.
Workers lay on the lawn beside paper tombstones Thursday, warning that Hayward's only emergency room could be at risk again. Assemblymember Liz Ortega urged a yes vote on the billionaire tax.
Federal immigration agents detained at least two people in Hayward early Monday, Oct. 26, near A and Filbert streets. Mayor Mark Salinas called the arrests deeply troubling, and a rapid-response network says three other men in the same truck were let go.
The Hayward City Council approved a 45-day moratorium Tuesday night while two 99-megawatt projects wait in the wings. Richmond voted 7-0 to stretch its own pause to Sept. 15, 2028, and Pittsburg votes next Monday.
