Early election results in Tracy City Council race reflect appetite for new representation

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

Tracy City Hall in Tracy, Calif., on Sept. 7, 2023. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News/Catchlight Local)

As of late Tuesday night, Dan Arriola appears to have a wide margin ahead of his opponents in the race to replace outgoing Tracy Mayor Nancy Young, while Steve Abercrombie, Dotty Nygard and Mateo Bedolla lead the race for two City Council seats.

Arriola showed a healthy lead with 48.7% of the vote in the mayor’s race, followed by mayor pro tempore Eleassia Davis who garnered 29.7%. Former councilmember Mary Mitracos closely trailed with 21.6%.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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