Marin legislative candidates Connolly, Lucan appear headed toward November election

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News June 3, 2026June 3, 2026

"I Voted!" stickers displayed in San Francisco on Election Day, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Around the Bay Area, ballots are still being tallied in primary races for several statewide offices and local measures. (Andres Jimenez Larios/Bay City News)

Two Democratic Marin County candidates appear to have cleared the hurdle of Tuesday’s primary election in their races for seats in the California Legislature.

State Assemblymember Damon Connolly, D-San Rafael, is vying for the District 2 seat in the state Senate, with 67% of the vote, or 85,542 votes in his favor. Republican Tief Gibbs was a distant second, with 20% of the vote.

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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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