2006 Oakland mayoral election

Oakland mayoral election, 2006

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Candidate Ron Dellums Ignacio De La Fuente
Party Democratic Democratic
Popular vote 42,073 27,647
Percentage 50.2% 33.0%

 
Candidate Nancy Nadel
Party Democratic
Popular vote 10,949
Percentage 13.1%

Mayor before election

Jerry Brown
Democratic

Elected mayor

Ron Dellums
Democratic

The 2006 Oakland mayoral election was held on June 7, 2006[1] to elect the mayor of Oakland, California. It saw the election of Ron Dellums.

Incumbent mayor Jerry Brown did not seek reelection to a third term, instead opting to run in the 2006 California Attorney General election.

A 50% margin of the vote needed to be obtained by the victor in order to avoid a runoff being held in November.[1] Dellums surpassed this margin by a mere 115 votes, thus no runoff was necessitated.[2]

  1. ^ a b Heredia, Christopher; May, Meredith; Writers, Chronicle Staff (June 9, 2006). "ELECTION 2006: Oakland Mayor's Race / Dellums still holds slim lead 2 days after election day / Counting continues in close race -- 50% would avoid runoff". SFGate. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  2. ^ Christopher Heredia, Janine DeFao (June 18, 2006). "De La Fuente offers support to Dellums as mayoral winner". San Francisco Chronicle.