San Ramon Mayor Armstrong Wins Big; District 4 Race Is Close
San Ramon voters are giving Mark Armstrong a landslide for mayor, while one council race is within about 100 votes.
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 Contra Costa County results page. Totals were cross-checked against ABC7's results page, which matched or ran slightly ahead in its later updates.
San Ramon Mayor
Mark Armstrong: 76.03% (13,576)
Paschalis Ntatsos: 14.15% (2,527)
Emma Chigbu: 9.82% (1,753)
District 2
Richard Adler: 69.75% (3,678)
Chirag Kathrani: 30.25% (1,595)
District 4
Marisol Rubio: 51.25% (2,166)
Jeffrey Joh: 48.75% (2,060)
ABC7 shows Armstrong at 76% (13,576).
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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