KGO: Race for SJ Mayor Heads for November Runoff Election
(KGO) - The race for mayor of San Jose is headed for a runoff election this fall.
KGO's Jeannie Lynch reports neither Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese nor San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo received a majority of votes for mayor.
Cortese had 33 percent of the vote and Liccardo pulled in 25 percent. After them, the other top vote-getters for mayor were San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen with 21 percent of the vote, San Jose City Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio with almost 10 percent and Councilwoman Rose Herrera, who garnered six percent of the vote.
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NBC Bay Area: Dave Cortese, Sam Liccardo to Face Off for SJ Mayor
By Jeff Burbank
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo will face each other in a runoff election in November to be mayor of San Jose.
Cortese garnered more than 33 percent of city voters for mayor to Liccardo's 25 percent.
Cortese, a former San Jose councilman and vice mayor who has two years remaining in his second term as supervisor, has pitched a "three point plan" to beef-up the city's police patrols, suppress street gangs and bring residents, businesses and schools together to resolve problems. He also advocates city-run ...
KPIX: Liccardo, Cortese Headed For Runoff in San Jose Mayor’s Race
In a low-turnout primary election in Santa Clara County Tuesday, the races for mayor of San Jose and three of five San Jose city councilmembers are headed for runoff elections this fall, Sheriff Laurie Smith was re-elected, and all eight ballot measures passed, according to unofficial results.
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo, neither of whom received a majority of votes for mayor, will face each other in a runoff election on Nov. 4.
Six candidates who finished first and second in the balloting for the open seats in City ...
KQED: San Jose Mayor’s Race: It’s Cortese and Liccardo in November
Update, Wednesday, 7:35 a.m.: With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Santa Clara Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo will compete in November to replace outgoing Mayor Chuck Reed. The top three vote-getters, according to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, are:
Dave Cortese: 33.6 percent
Sam Liccardo: 25.1 percent
Madison Nguyen: 21.2 percent
Update, Wednesday 1:20 a.m.: With 477 of 485 precincts reporting, Sam Liccardo is likely to hold onto his lead over Madison Nguyen and will face Dave Cortese in the general ...
KTVU: Cortese, Liccardo in runoff for San Jose mayor
By Azenith Smith
SAN JOSE, Calif. —In a low-turnout primary election in Santa Clara County Tuesday, the races for mayor of San Jose and three of five San Jose city councilmembers are headed for runoff elections this fall.Meanwhile, Sheriff Laurie Smith was re-elected, and all eight ballot measures passed, according to unofficial results.
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose Councilman Sam Liccardo, neither of whom received a majority of votes for mayor, will face each other in a runoff election on Nov. 4.
Six candidates who finished first and ...
Silicon Valley Business Journal: In San Jose mayor’s race, it’s union-backed Cortese vs. Liccardo, a pension reformer
By Greg Baumann
The race for the San Jose mayor’s office, a symbolic battle in the fight over how to manage skyrocketing public-employee pension costs in cities across California, looks to be a contest between union-backed Dave Cortese and Sam Liccardo, a pension reformer who drew unprecedented levels of support from Silicon Valley CEOs.
Cortese, a Santa Clara supervisor, received 33.5 percent, or 27,677 votes in the primary, which leads up to a November runoff election, according to preliminary results from the registrar of voters website. Liccardo, the San ...
Mercury News: San Jose mayor’s race: Dave Cortese vs. Sam Liccardo in November
By Mike Rosenberg
SAN JOSE -- Dave Cortese and Sam Liccardo are on their way to a November runoff in the race for San Jose mayor, a battle that will largely be a referendum on the Chuck Reed administration.
Cortese, a Santa Clara County supervisor, had clearly emerged triumphant in Tuesday's primary with about one-third of the votes. Liccardo grabbed the other spot with a bit more than 25 percent of the vote, according to semi-final results, with all precincts reporting early Wednesday morning.
Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, who had threatened to score one of the ...
Mercury News editorial: Liccardo for mayor, Harris for judge and other election musts
Mercury News Editorial
San Jose picks a new mayor every eight years when term limits sideline an incumbent, and this is the year. Santa Clara County rarely has an incumbent judge who needs to be removed, but it does now.
Voters, this is no year to sit out a primary election.
SAN JOSE MAYOR
Sam Liccardo is the best candidate to succeed Chuck Reed. On this and the opposite page, there are arguments for each of the five qualified candidates for mayor, and longer versions appear online. Pay special attention to the former police chiefs' argument for Dave Cortese ...
Tom McEnery and Ron James: Liccardo knows what to do and how to pay for it
By Tom McEnery and Ron James
Special to the Mercury News
How are we going to make San Jose safer -- and pay for it?
Those are the two questions a responsible mayor must ask and, more important, must answer.
As mayors who you once entrusted to lead San Jose, we -- joined by Mayor Susan Hammer -- have chosen to support Councilman Sam Liccardo. We do so with confidence that Liccardo will best lead a safer San Jose -- and he will find a way to pay for it.
Liccardo's career as a deputy district attorney gives him a unique insight, among all of the candidates, about ...
KPIX 5 / Survey USA Poll Finds 2 Candidates Breaking Away in San Jose Mayor’s Race
By: Len Ramirez
San Jose (KPIX 5) – With less than a week until the primary election, a new KPIX 5 / SurveyUSA poll found two candidates for San Jose mayor are separating themselves from the crowded field of candidates.
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese is among those who have broken away from the pack, with 26 percent of the vote.
“Always makes me a little nervous because I’m used to being the underdog,” Cortese told KPIX 5.
San Jose City Councilmember Sam Liccardo, who is the frontrunner in raising money, is in second place with 20 percent of ...