Former Stockton city councilmember Christina Fugazi remained ahead of San Joaquin County Supervisor Tom Patti in the race to be the city’s next mayor, according to the latest results released by the county.
Fugazi, a Democrat and Stagg High School assistant principal who previously served on the Stockton City Council from 2015 to 2022, had 29,045 votes or 53% of the total vote, according to the county’s latest unofficial results Friday evening.
That was compared to 25,716 or 47% for Patti, a Republican who was first elected to the county Board of Supervisors in 2016 and lost in 2022 in his run for a Congress seat to incumbent U.S. Rep. Josh Harder, D-Stockton.
The current Stockton mayor, Republican Kevin Lincoln, did not run for re-election because he went up against Harder in Tuesday’s election for the District 9 Congress seat but was trailing by more than 4,000 votes as of the release of the latest vote counts Friday from San Joaquin County as well as parts of Contra Costa and Stanislaus counties that are also part of District 9.
Stockton’s mayoral race became of national interest in the last election cycle following the release of the 2020 HBO documentary “Stockton on My Mind” that followed Lincoln’s predecessor Michael Tubbs, who was elected in 2016 as the city’s youngest and first Black mayor and championed universal basic income programs.
Tubbs lost to Lincoln later in 2020 and has been a member of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration as its special advisor for economic mobility and opportunity. He earlier this year launched a campaign for lieutenant governor in the 2026 election.
Fugazi and Patti received the two highest vote totals in the March primary that included four other people, but neither got a majority of the votes so the race went to a November runoff.
