Santa Clara Mayor: Karen Hardy Narrowly Leads a Six-Way Race
Karen Hardy holds a narrow lead in a crowded race for mayor of the city of Santa Clara, and council District 2 and 3 races are also being decided.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Downtown San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley from the hills. Photo: Michael from San Jose, California, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (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 Santa Clara County results page. Totals were cross-checked against ABC7's results page, which matched or ran slightly ahead in its later updates.
Santa Clara Mayor
Karen Hardy: 23.68% (3,649)
Kathy Watanabe: 20.65% (3,183)
David Kertes: 18.97% (2,924)
Kevin Park: 17.16% (2,645)
Armando Ferraris: 12.17% (1,875)
Mike Wiltberger: 7.36% (1,135)
City Council, District 2
Kimberley Williams: 58.45% (1,332)
Yvonne Inciarte: 41.55% (947)
City Council, District 3
Eric Crutchlow: 55.07% (1,223)
Kyle Madej: 44.93% (998)
ABC7 shows Hardy at 24% (3,649) and Watanabe at 21% (3,183).
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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