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Manh Nguyen
Manh Nguyen is a former member of the nonpartisan San Jose City Council in California, representing District 4 from 2015 to 2016. Nguyen joined the council after winning the 2015 special election for a one-year term.
Nguyen lost his bid for re-election to a full term in the primary election on June 7, 2016.
Elections
2016
Note: Unofficial results put Diep ahead of Nguyen by 28 votes out of more than 17,000. An automatic recount put Diep's lead at 14 votes. A second recount, funded by Nguyen, confirmed that Diep won the election.
The city of San Jose, California, held elections for five of its nine city council seats on June 7, 2016. While the June election was called a primary, it was functionally a general election.
If no candidate won a majority (50 percent plus one) of the votes cast in a primary, the top two vote-getters in the race advanced to an election on November 8, 2016. The November election was called a general election, but it was functionally a runoff election.[1] Lan Diep defeated incumbent Manh Nguyen in the primary election for San Jose City Council District 4.
| San Jose City Council District 4, Primary Election, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Lan Diep |
50.08% | 8,689 |
| Manh Nguyen Incumbent | 49.92% | 8,661 |
| Total Votes (100% reporting) | 17,350 | |
| Source: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, "Unofficial Semifinal Results," accessed June 27, 2016 | ||
2015
The city of San Jose, California, held a special election for city council on April 7, 2015. A runoff took place on June 23, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was January 9, 2015.
The city held the special election to fill the District 4 seat of former council member Kansen Chu, who won election to the California State Assembly in 2014.[2]
Candidates included Allen Ming Chiu, Bob Dhillon, Lan Diep, Rudy Nasol, Manh Nguyen, Khoa Nguyen, Alex Torres, Johnny Lee, Timothy Orozco and Thelma Boac. Because no candidate received a majority of the votes in the general election, the top two candidates—Manh Nguyen and Timothy Orozco—faced each other in a runoff election on June 23. Nguyen was the winner.[3][4][5]
| San Jose City Council, District 4 Runoff Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Manh Nguyen |
56% | 6,111 | |
| Timothy Orozco | 44% | 4,795 | |
| Total Votes | 10,906 | ||
| Source: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, "Official runoff election results," accessed July 30, 2015 | |||
| San Jose City Council, District 4 General Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Timothy Orozco |
22% | 2,243 | |
| Manh Nguyen |
19.1% | 1,947 | |
| Lan Diep | 19% | 1,934 | |
| Bob Dhillon | 11.4% | 1,157 | |
| Khoa Nguyen | 7.8% | 794 | |
| Alex Torres | 5.7% | 579 | |
| Rudy Nasol | 4.9% | 504 | |
| Johnny Lee | 3.8% | 388 | |
| Allen Ming Chiu | 3.2% | 325 | |
| Thelma Boac | 3.1% | 320 | |
| Total Votes | 8,075 | ||
| Source: Santa Clara County, "Official election results," accessed May 29, 2015 | |||
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See also
- San Jose, California
- Municipal elections in San Jose, California (2016)
- United States municipal elections, 2016
- United States municipal elections, 2015
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ County of Santa Clara Registrar of Voters, "Past Election Information," accessed September 16, 2021
- ↑ City of San Jose, "Special Election General Information," accessed December 4, 2014
- ↑ Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, "City of San Jose, District 4 Unofficial Runoff Results," accessed June 23, 2015
- ↑ Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, "City of San Jose, District 4 Unofficial Results," accessed April 8, 2015
- ↑ City of San Jose Elections, "April 7, 2015, Special Election Candidates," accessed January 12, 2015
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