Raj Salwan, who has served on the Fremont City Council for a decade, is currently holding a strong lead in the four-person race to become the East Bay city’s next mayor. Salwan had garnered nearly half of the votes counted in the race so far — about 13,000 — and was ahead of his closest opponent, former two-term City Councilmember Vinnie Bacon, by about 15 points in initial election results as of 1 a.m. Wednesday. The next update from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters is expected Thursday afternoon. Together, they have earned about a fifth of the votes thus far. “It’s a significant gap,” Salwan said Wednesday of his lead, though he noted there are more votes to count.
