Oakland Council: Charlene Wang and Kevin Jenkins Lead
Two Oakland council members hold wide early leads.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
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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.
Oakland District 2
Charlene Wang: 65.62% (5,900)
Nate Adams: 34.38% (3,091)
Oakland District 6
Kevin Jenkins: 82.61% (7,315)
Nancy Sidebotham: 17.39% (1,540)
ABC7 marks Wang and Jenkins 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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