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Bay Area Democrat Jerry McNerney reelected to Congress

By Jean Merl
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With fewer than 1,900 ballots remaining to be counted Wednesday, Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) won his tough reelection bid against Republican challenger David Harmer.

By midday Wednesday, McNerney held a 2,474-vote lead over Harmer, an attorney and son of a former state legislator, giving the congressman a 48%-to-46.9% edge. American Independent Party candidate David Christensen had 5.1%.

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The race was the last congressional contest in California to be resolved, and the seat was in one of three Democratic districts targeted by Republicans. Although Republicans won enough seats around the country to take control of the House of Representatives in the Nov. 2 election, no California congressional seat changed party hands.

The two other targeted Democrats were Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove and Jim Costa of Fresno. Democrats unsuccessfully targeted Republicans Dan Lungren of the Sacramento area and Mary Bono Mack of Palm Springs.

-- Jean Merl

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Jean Merl

Jean Merl, a hopeless news junkie, covered regional politics for the Los Angeles Times until 2015. She was raised in southern Ohio but moved with her family to Los Angeles at a tender age, which practically makes her a California native. She holds a master’s degree from UCLA and remembers when Otis Chandler was publisher of The Times and Tom Bradley was mayor of L.A.

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