AP Calls California's 7th District for Rep. Doris Matsui Over Fellow Democrat Mai Vang
The Associated Press declared at 7:46 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 10, that Democratic U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui won election in California's 7th Congressional District, defeating fellow Democrat and Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang and keeping the House seat she has held since 2005. The AP's latest count shows Matsui with 124,027 votes, or 53.3 percent, to Vang's 108,703 votes, or 46.7 percent, with about 88 percent of the vote counted.
Under California's top-two primary system, two Democrats advanced to the general election in the 7th District, so the seat was never in doubt for the Democratic Party; the question was which Democrat would hold it. The district is centered on Sacramento and includes Elk Grove, Galt, Lodi and Placerville, taking in parts of Sacramento, El Dorado and San Joaquin counties. In the unofficial returns available on Tuesday afternoon when the AP called the race, Matsui had 104,144 votes, or 55.8 percent, to Vang's 82,372 votes, or 44.2 percent.
Matsui, 82, first won the seat in a 2005 special election held after the death of her husband, Rep. Robert Matsui, and has represented the Sacramento area ever since; she was born in a Japanese internment camp in Arizona during World War II. Vang, 41, campaigned on generational change and had finished first ahead of Matsui in the June primary. As of November 12, the AP has called 423 House seats, with Democrats holding 255 and Republicans 168, and 12 seats still uncalled. (Source: The Associated Press)
Source: The Associated Press
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Photo: 图：联邦众议员 Doris Matsui 官方肖像。公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
