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Election Day in Berkeley this year saw the impacts of the more than $1 million poured into the city’s most contentious measures — although the final votes yielded mixed results for the election’s biggest spenders.
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As of Wednesday evening, District 8 City Council candidate Lori Droste led opponent George Beier by a 0.38-point lead, or 16 votes, according to updated ranked-choice voting results from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.
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As of Tuesday morning, updated ranked-choice voting results show that Lori Droste leads by 0.1 percentage points in the race for the District 8 City Council seat, only four votes ahead of runner-up George Beier.
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Newcomer Ty Alper and incumbent Josh Daniels have attained two of three Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education positions, leaving two incumbents vying for the final seat.
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Sean Barry, who ran for the City Council seat in the student-concentrated District 7, conceded the race Sunday to incumbent Kriss Worthington.
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As of Saturday afternoon, updated election results show that incumbent Kriss Worthington and candidate George Beier remain in the lead for City Council seats of District 7 and 8, respectively — although the latter’s lead is now just two votes more than that of the runner up Lori Droste.
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As of Friday afternoon, updated results show that George Beier and Kriss Worthington remain in the lead for City Council seats of District 8 and 7, respectively.
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Incumbent councilmember Kriss Worthington of District 7 and George Beier of District 8 are leading the polls as of Thursday’s updated election results.
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As of Wednesday evening, two City Council races were still too close to call pending the inclusion of mail-in ballots. Though incumbent Kriss Worthington and candidate George Beier led in their races for District 7 and 8, respectively, the numbers were too close to decisively call the winners.
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In between victory speeches, Yes on D campaigners were already gearing up to begin implementing the nation’s first “soda tax” the day after Berkeley voters overwhelmingly passed the measure.
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