Election update: Rosa Kim takes 13-vote lead in Fremont Union High race as county count reaches 618,904 ballots
San Jose's three council leaders hold, and Measure RTM rises to 55.32% yes. Mountain View's second council seat narrows to 12 votes.
Rosa Kim moved ahead of Jason Lin by 13 votes in Fremont Union High School District's Trustee Area 3, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters' latest unofficial results show. Lin had led by 46. The update, posted Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 4:52 p.m., adds 53,290 ballots, for 618,904 counted.
That is 57.27% of the county's 1,080,711 registered voters. Results are not final, and leads can still change.
San Jose
- District 5: Peter Ortiz 52.86%, Nora Campos 47.05%.
- District 7: Bien Doan 60.84%, Van Le 39.05%.
- District 9: Genny Altwer 53.45%, Gordon Chester 46.45%.
- Measure RTM, the regional transit sales tax, which needs a simple majority: 55.32% yes in the county, up from 54.83%.
Close races elsewhere
- Fremont Union High, Trustee Area 3: Kim 8,275, Lin 8,262.
- Mountain View City Council (three seats): Erik Poicon leads Silja Paymer by 12 votes for second place, down from 20. Robert Cox, fourth, trails Paymer by 488.
- Milpitas mayor: Carmen Montano leads Hon Lien by 380, up from 300.
- Santa Clara Unified, Trustee Area 1: Kamal Yassin leads Jim Canova by 114, up from 58.
Our Nov. 11 update has the earlier count.
Source: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, unofficial election results.