While Primary Day was not a strong day for incumbent San Jose City Council members, unofficial results with more than half the ballots counted revealed one outright winner, plus the likely pairings for November in all but one district.
The margins were wide enough to guarantee an outright victory for David Cohen in District 4, plus the likely General Election opponents in three other council races: Michael Mulcahy v. Olivia Navarro in District 6, incumbent Domingo Candelas v. Tam Truong in District 8 and incumbent Arjun Batra v George Casey in District 10. In District 4, incumbent David Cohen and Kansen Chu were the only primary election candidates.
City Councilmember David Cohen. Candidate photo
In District 2, Joe Lopez held a comfortable position over four other candidates, but Pamela Campos, Babu Prasad and Vanessa Sandoval were in a tight battle for the second ballot position, less than 200 votes apart, as of March 8
As expected, Mayor Matt Mahan easily won re-election, avoiding a November runoff with more than 87% of the ballots.
Candelas, who was appointed to the post last year, led Truong by fewer than 600 votes in District 8. Another council appointee, Batra in District 10, trailed Casey by more than 360 votes at the vote-counting’s halfway mark.
Here are the details of the Primary Election vote, with more votes being counted through March 12:
Mayor
- *Matt Mahan 98,237
- Tyrone Wade 13,900
Council District 2
- Joe Lopez 2,995
- Pamela Campos 2,316
- Babu Prasad 2,126
- Vanessa Sandoval 1,849
Council District 4
- *David Cohen 5,687
- Kansen Chu 4,002
Council District 6
- Michael Mulcahy 6,055
- Olivia Navarro 4,441
- Alex Shoor 2,405
- Angelo Pasciuti 1,859
Council District 8
- *Domingo Candelas 5,545
- Tam Truong 4,855
- Sukhdev Bainiwal 3,697
- Surinder Dhaliwal 290
Council District 10
- George Casey 5,865
- *Arjun Batra 5,525
- Lenka Wright 3,737
* Incumbent
This report was updated at 5pm March 8.
