Six Battle For Two Seats On Newark's City Council

NEWARK, CA — Two city council seats and the mayor's office were up for grabs in the city of Newark's municipal election held Nov. 8, 2022, and candidates on the ballot are still waiting for the final vote tallies to see if they secure a spot on that city’s dais.

According to the most recent numbers released by AC Vote, Alameda County's vote counting and reporting agency, in the race for mayor, current council member Michael Hannon leads over Jason Miguel, 3,625 votes (65.35 percent) to 1,922 votes (34.65 percent), respectively.

The winner of that race will replace current Mayor Alan Nagy who announced earlier this year he would not run for reelection.

In the race for the at-large city council seats current councilmember Mike Bucci leads the pack with 3,045 votes or 30.84 percent of the vote followed by Matthew Jorgens (2,051 or 20.78 percent), Terrence Grindall (1,880 or 19.04 percent), Taranjit Singh Gujral (1,070 or 10.84 percent), Barry Taimani (983 or 9.96 percent) and Soraya Ahmadyar (843 or 8.54 percent).

The top two vote-getters will secure a place on the dais.

AC vote has been posting “unofficial results” since the election, so the count as reported has not been finalized with votes still being counted. The next update is expected Friday, Nov. 18.