With less than three months away from Election Day, dozens of individuals surfaced Friday as candidates for numerous seats throughout the East Bay.
In the Tri-Cities, there will be some important races with mayoral and city council races occurring in Fremont and Union City and seats up for grabs on school boards in Fremont, Newark and Union City.
Here is a list of candidates of local races who filed with the Alameda County Registrar’s Office. Information was also gathered from the City of Union City City Clerk's Office: (The list reflects candidates who filed as of 12:55 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15.)
CITY RACES
Fremont Mayoral Race
- Aziz Akbari
- Steve Cho
- Bill Harrison
- Anu Natarajan
Fremont City Council Race (two seats)
- Vinnie Bacon
- Suzanne "Sue" Chan (Incumbent)
- John Dutra
- Rick Jones
- Rakesh Sharma
- Mark L. Wadley
Union City Mayoral Race
- Carol Dutra-Vernaci
Union City City Council Race (one seat)
- Jose Estrella
- Jim Navarro (Incumbent)
SCHOOL RACES
Fremont Unified School District (three seats)
- Desrie Y. Campbell
- Ann Crosbie
- Reshma Karipineni
- Lily Mei (Incumbent)
- Hiu Ng
- Yang Shao
Newark Unified School District (three seats)
- Jan Crocker (Incumbent)
- Ray J. Rodriguez (Incumbent)
- Gary A. Stadler
New Haven Unified School District (three seats)
- Jonas Dino (Incumbent)
- Nick Fresquez
- Michelle Parnala Matthews (Incumbent)
- Michael Ritchie (Incumbent)
Ohlone Community College
- Area 1, short term (one seat)
- Vivien Larsen (Incumbent)
- Area 2 (three seats)
- Greg Bonaccorsi (Incumbent)
- Kevin Bristow
- Teresa Cox (Incumbent)
SPECIAL DISTRICTS
Alameda County Board of Supervisors, District 2, short-term (one seat)
- Mark Green
- Mary Hayashi
- Robert Ridgeway
- Mark A. Turnquist
- Richard Valle (Incumbent)
Check back on Patch for updates on who has filed for candidacy in this year’s elections.
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