Elections
Scenes from the Richmond Progressive Alliance’s campaign party on November 8 as they celebrated their massive wins on the city council and rent control.
On Wednesday afternoon, one day after Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States, a group of Richmond High School seniors walked out of school in protest, marching to City Hall and briefly stalling traffic on the I-80.
In what may be the biggest electoral victory in the Richmond Progressive Alliance’s 13-year history, the political group has won two more City Council seats—giving it a majority on the council.
The RYSE Youth Center held a mock election tonight for kids, where children showed an overwhelming preference for Clinton and Sanders.
More photos from the scenes of Richmond’s elections.
A misunderstanding about pens held up voting at the Veterans Memorial Hall this morning.
Election day is just around the corner. Before everything comes to a close, we walked around Richmond, stopping at Civic Center Plaza and Marina Bay, to ask residents what they thought about the upcoming vote.
With the election days away, a battle over Measure M, a ballot initiative that would increase so-called documentary transfer tax rates, is suddenly heating up. In the last month, the National Association of Realtors and the California Association of Realtors spent a combined $75,000 on mailers, online ads, and telephone calls.
Richmond Confidential has launched a site dedicated to the 2016 election.