Tordillos' large lead grows in San Jose special election, latest update shows
Anthony Tordillos leads in the special election for San Jose's District 3 Council Member seat, the results page shows as of Wednesday.
The update at 5 p.m. on Wednesday showed that Tordillos' already large lead grew even more, by over 300 votes. Tordillos has 5,328 votes, and Gabby Chavez-Lopez has 2,954 votes, according to the Registrar of Voters.
At the end of Tuesday, Tordillos had 4,449 votes, 64%, and Gabby Chavez-Lopez had 2,413 votes, 35%.
The special election results will be updated again on Thursday at 5 p.m.
Tordillos is the chair of the city's Planning Commission and was endorsed by Matt Mahan and former Assembly Member Evan Low,
Chavez-Lopez was endorsed by San Jose firefighters, state Sen. Dave Cortese and Supervisor Betty Duong, according to her statement.
In the April special election, Chavez-Lopez was the leading candidate with 2,712 votes, 29.9% of the total votes. Since no candidate had a majority of all votes cast, a special runoff election was scheduled for Tuesday, June 24, with the candidate with the next highest vote count.
Tordillos made it to the runoff election by only six votes. The for the April election showed Tordillos had 2,006 votes, with the third most being 2,000.
