All of the votes on Oakland’s mayor race are counted and little has changed since election night.
Libby Schaaf won, according to the final results posted by county officials late Wednesday, after 15 rounds of ranked-choice voting with 63 percent of the votes, easily beating her closest rival, Rebecca Kaplan.
It was clear the morning after the election that Schaaf, a City Councilwoman, had easily defeated Kaplan and one-term incumbent Jean Quan. But the final, though still uncertified, results underscore Schaaf’s victory using Oakland’s system of ranked-choice voting.
Schaaf got 29 percent of first-place votes in the first-round of voting and went on to defeat 13 of her rivals, leaving her to finally beat Kaplan in the final round.
Nearly 102,000 Oakland residents cast ballots in the contest, about half of the registered voters in the city. Turnout in Alameda County was just above 45 percent, said Tim Dupuis, the county’s registrar of voters.
Election workers will now manually review 1 percent of the ballots before they can certify the final results, Dupuis said.
