Oaklanders are voting in City Council contests across the Town, and here’s where the races stand in Districts 1, 3, 5, 7 and an at-large seat held by incumbent Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan.
Carroll Fife, a longtime housing activist with the group Moms 4 Housing, leads in an Oakland city council race against Lynette Gibson-McElhaney, an eight-year incumbent in West Oaklandâs District 3.
Incumbents Dan Kalb and Noel Gallo hold solid leads in North Oaklandâs District 1 and Fruitvaleâs District 5, respectively.
Treva Reid leads the District 7 race to take over the seat from her father, Larry Reid, who has represented an area in deep East Oakland for 18 years.
Kaplan leads in her race to keep her at-large seat.
All of these races are subject to ranked-choice voting, which involves multiple rounds of reallocating votes as some candidates are cut from contention.
Fifeâs group, Moms 4 Housing, ran a suite of candidates in several local races this year, including Dominique Walker, an organizer with the group, and Leah Simon-Weisberg, an attorney, who are leading in the race for seats on the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.
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