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Incumbent San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller seems poised to handily win reelection to his seat representing much of the southern part of the county and the Coastside, according to early results released an hour after polls closed on Tuesday night.
So far, Mueller leads with 86.04% of the vote compared to Coastside advocate and former Half Moon Bay mayor Joaquín Jimenez, who has 13.96% of the ballots counted so far. Only 69,065 ballots — 15.44% of the county’s 447,306 registered voters — have been counted on election night, June 2, which include all vote-by-mail ballots received by the Friday before election night and 764 in-person votes.
The candidate who receives the most votes will be elected since there are only two candidates in the race.
Mueller, an attorney who was first elected to the board’s District 3 seat in 2022, previously served a decade on the Menlo Park City Council, said his first term focused on public safety. Jimenez, a longtime Coastside community advocate and former Half Moon Bay council member, said he ran to improve support and economic opportunity for farmworkers, in addition to wanting to work on housing and environmental issues.
District 3 encompasses Atherton, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Woodside, San Carlos, and parts of Belmont, in addition to much of the Coastside, including Pacifica, Half Moon Bay and unincorporated communities.
Initial results only included mailed ballots received before May 29 and do not include any of the in-person votes. Since then, the county has received at least an additional 33,000 ballots and 3,000 voter center ballots. Tuesday night updates will include in-person voting results but tallys from mailed ballots received after Friday won’t be available until Wednesday evening, according to the county elections office.
In the 2022 primary election, 174,122 people voted.
The tally is scheduled to be updated at 10 p.m.
This story will be updated as new results become available.
