Rowena Brown holds narrow lead in first-choice votes for Oakland at-large council seat

Rowena Brown was narrowly leading her closest challenger for Oakland’s at-large City Council seat Tuesday night with 28.42% of first-choice vote based on early returns from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office.

Of the nine other candidates, former Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong was second with 27.95% of the first-choice votes and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee Charline Wang had 20.63%. None of the rest of the candidates cracked double digits, with Shawn Danino getting 4.99%, Cristina ‘Tina’ Tostado getting 4.32%, Mindy Pechenuk getting 4.03% and Kanitha Matoury getting 4.01%, with Fabian Robinson, Nancy Sidebotham and Selika Thomas all under 3%.