State Senate District 15 Results: Campbell, Los Gatos, Cupertino

LOS GATOS, CA — The polls closed Tuesday evening in Santa Clara County, where residents in Los Gatos, Campbell, Cupertino and San Jose finished voting in the primary for the open State Senate District 15 seat.

In the 15th district, term-limited Democrat Jim Beall is stepping down. The candidates running to replace him are Democrats Nora Campos, Ann Ravel and Dave Cortese, as well as Republicans Ken Del Valle and Robert Howell, Libertarian Tim Gildersleeve and independent Johnny Khamis.

As of Wednesday morning, with 93 percent of precincts reporting, Cortese — currently a county supervisor — held a 13-point lead over his closest rival, former FEC Chair Ann Ravel.

Most of the candidates shared their top priorities with Voter's Edge California, a nonpartisan resource aiming to inform the electorate.

REAL-TIME RESULTS

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Turnout was expected to be strong for Tuesday’s election in California, as many of Santa Clara County's nearly 1 million registered voters made their choice in the presidential primary, voted on the largest proposed bond issue in state history and picked candidates in state and local races.

Statewide, there are 20.6 million registered voters, an increase of 3.3 million since the last presidential election in 2016. In fact, nearly 82 percent of eligible Californians are registered to vote, the highest heading into a California Presidential Primary in the past 68 years.

“California entered 2020 with a record 20.4 million registered voters—and I only expect that figure to climb as we reach the Presidential Primary in March and General Election in November,” Secretary of State Alex Padilla said.

The statewide races dominating the headlines in California have been those for the presidential primary and Proposition 13, the largest proposed bond issue in state history.

Here in Santa Clara County, voters also weighed in on an open Board of Supervisors seat and races for the statehouse and U.S. Congress. Two candidates are also running unopposed for the county's Superior Court.

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