San Diego Preliminary Council Results: Crosby, Abraham, Lee and Martinez Lead Early District Counts

SAN DIEGO — Nicole Crosby, Martha Abraham, Kent Lee and Antonio Martinez led the reported counts in four separate City Council contests in San Diego County’s first election-night snapshot for November 3, 2026.

The narrowest of these reported margins was District 4, where Abraham led Henry Foster III by 653 votes. All four races remain unofficial; this article does not project outcomes.

District 2

San Diego council District 2 — unofficial
Candidate	Votes	Share of reported candidate votes
Nicole Crosby	18,158	54.50%
Richard Bailey	15,162	45.50%

District 4

San Diego council District 4 — unofficial
Candidate	Votes	Share of reported candidate votes
Martha Abraham	10,168	51.66%
Henry Foster III	9,515	48.34%

District 6

San Diego council District 6 — unofficial
Candidate	Votes	Share of reported candidate votes
Kent Lee	14,761	59.70%
Mark Powell	9,964	40.30%

District 8

San Diego council District 8 — unofficial
Candidate	Votes	Share of reported candidate votes
Antonio Martinez	8,918	55.39%
Gerardo Ramirez	7,183	44.61%

These percentages apply to the reported candidate votes within each contest. They are not a citywide poll and do not measure how much of each district’s final vote has been counted.

What this release includes

Source timestamp: November 3, 2026, 8:05:46 p.m. Pacific. Figures come from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters’ official results dashboard, reached through sdvote.com.

The registrar says its first report includes mail ballots received before Election Day and ballots from early vote centers between October 24 and November 2. Later election-night reports add Election Day vote-center ballots; additional mail-ballot processing continues afterward.

These are preliminary, unofficial figures. Candidate shares do not indicate the percentage of the final vote counted. Totals and margins can change, and this article declares no winners. Read the county’s counting explanation and check its dashboard for later updates.

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