San Rafael District 3 Separated by 37 Votes; Novato Results
A San Rafael council race is nearly tied, and Novato's districts have leaders.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Inside the Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Photo: Frank Schulenburg / 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 Marin County results page. Totals were cross-checked against ABC7's results page, which matched or ran slightly ahead in its later updates.
San Rafael District 3
Daryoush Davidi: 50.53% (1,766)
Robert Sandoval: 49.47% (1,729)
Novato District 2
Rachel Farac: 62.24% (1,543)
Mike Little: 24.81% (615)
Bob Rasmussen: 12.95% (321)
Novato District 4
Pat Eklund: 43.47% (1,091)
Dan Christian: 39.52% (992)
Chris Carpiniello: 13.67% (343)
Luiggino Galletto: 3.35% (84)
ABC7 shows Davidi at 51% (1,766) to Sandoval's 49% (1,729), and Farac at 62%.
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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