Oakland residents elect Mayor Barbara Lee for a full, 4-year term, CBS News projects

Oakland voters have reelected Mayor Barbara Lee to a full four-year term, defeating three other candidates in a contest to lead the East Bay city, CBS News projects. Lee was elected in 2024 by voters after former Mayor Sheng Thao was recalled. Prior to being mayor, Lee was a U.S. House representative and was first elected to Congress in 1998. The candidates that ran to replace her were Brenda Grisham, Mindy Pechenuk and Julius Robinson. Voters used ranked-choice voting when they casted their ballots for the mayoral race. Election officials will count all first-choice votes, and if a candidate has a majority of the vote, they will win. If no candidate received a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the least number of votes will be eliminated. If an eliminated candidate was a voter's first choice, the voter's next ranked candidate will be counted. The process will then be repeated until a candidate secures a majority of the vote.

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