Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 2 representative Elisa Marquez appears to have easily fended off two challengers as she seeks another four-year term for the seat that represents the cities of Newark and Union City, most of Hayward, and parts of Fremont.
As of about 9:45 p.m., with all in-person precincts reporting, Marquez leads BART Board Director Liz Ames and businessman Rohan Marfatia by a large margin of about 50 percentage points.
Marquez was leading the unofficial results on Tuesday night with just under 67% to Ames’ roughly 18% and Marfatia’s nearly 15%.
She will win the seat outright and avoid a runoff in November with more than 50% of the vote.
She recorded 16,114 votes in the unofficial updated tally. Ames had 4,383 votes and Marfatia recorded 3,575.
Marquez won an uncontested election for the seat in 2024 and says healthcare access, maintaining the county’s safety net programs and protecting immigrant and refugee communities are among her top priorities.
Her endorsements included all of the current Alameda County supervisors, the mayors of Hayward, Union City and Fremont and the region’s state Assemblymember Liz Ortega, as well as the Alameda County Democratic Party and many of the county’s largest trade union groups.
The only other sitting member of the county Board of Supervisors up for reelection was District 3 representative Lena Tam, who ran unopposed.