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The Alameda County Registrar of Voters is now reporting that 44,104 vote by mail ballots have been received from Berkeley voters, for a Berkeley turnout of 61.9%. These figures are not final, but are probably closed to final. Based on the latest figures, there were 6549 fewer people registered to vote in Berkeley this year than there were for the 2018 midterms. Turnout was 73.7% in 2018 but will certainly, when all the votes are counted, be significantly lower this year. 

As of today, about 75-76 % of ballots received from Berkeley voters have been counted. 

Berkeley City Council District 1 

Kesarwani - 2261 

Mikiten - 1905 

Freeman - 374 

Kesarwani will win this race as her lead has widened as more votes have been counted since Election Day; she now leads by 356 votes . After the ranked choice vote count of third place candidate Freeman’s second choice vote, Kesarwani ends with 53% of the vote to 47% for Mikiten. About 28% of the votes in District 1 have not yet been counted. 

Berkeley Rent Board -Vote for 5 

Ida Martinac has passed candidate Carole Marasovic for the fifth place and leads Marasovic by 131 votes. This is the one race in Berkeley where the outcome remains unclear, but members of the Right to Housing slate have been gaining votes in the count this week.  

Other Races  

Measure L, the $650 million bond, which requires two-thirds for passage is still way behind with 57.5% of the vote.  

Pamela Price increased her lead over Terry Wiley in the race for Alameda County District Attorney; she now leads by 6245 votes, with 51% of the votes cast. 

District 7 City Council incumbent Rigel Robinson, running unopposed this year, now has 181 votes, and will be elected to Council with the smallest number of votes in at least the last 50 years of Berkeley elections.