Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen sailing to re-election for her third term
Bobbie Singh-Allen has clinched a third term as Elk Grove mayor by wide margins, election returns show.
With 56% of ballots counted, Singh-Allen is leading with nearly 70% of the vote over challengers Brian Pastor, at 20%; and Lynn Wheat, who trailed at 10%. The next round of ballot tallies will be released Friday by Sacramento County elections officials.
Singh-Allen thanked voters in a statement Wednesday.
“Thank you, Elk Grove, for your overwhelming support. I am humbled with the strong message that our city is heading in the right direction,” Singh-Allen said. “Let’s continue to be an example of good governance and promoting unity over division.”
Singh-Allen touted the city’s balanced budget, low rates of crime and homelessness along with new businesses and the planned development of a relocated Sacramento Zoo in Elk Grove. The Elk Grove incumbent also won endorsements from fire and law enforcement, business, labor and teachers.
Pastor, a local physician in his third bid to become Elk Grove mayor, campaigned on a platform of combating crime, providing more affordable housing, easing the burden on the city’s seniors and multi-generational families and seeking solutions to homelessness.
Fiscal responsibility was a key in Wheat’s underdog campaign. The longtime local advocate criticized Elk Grove’s pursuit and development of the Sacramento Zoo with its estimated $302 million price tag, saying she would direct more funds to provide more affordable housing. Wheat also said she would decline City Council pay raises authorized under a recent state law.
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