{"id":53561,"date":"2024-11-06T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/milpitas-mayor-leads-in-close-race-to-keep-her-seat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T00:19:52","slug":"milpitas-mayor-leads-in-close-race-to-keep-her-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/milpitas-mayor-leads-in-close-race-to-keep-her-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Milpitas mayor leads in close race to keep her seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milpitas Mayor Carmen Montano is leading the 2024 race by just under three points over her closest opponent Councilmember Hon Lien. Montano was first elected Milpitas mayor in 2022 after serving as vice mayor \u2014 making her the first woman mayor in the city\u2019s history. With Milpitas mayors serving two years per term, the 2024 campaign started almost immediately. Montano faced candidates who included Councilmembers Lien and Anthony Phan, as well as community advocate Voltaire Soriben Montemayor who is running for the fifth time as a mayoral candidate. Montano is leading with 36.2% of the vote, Lien in second place&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/milpitas-mayor-carmen-montano-leads-in-close-race-to-keep-her-seat-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milpitas Mayor Carmen Montano is leading the 2024 race by just under three points over her closest opponent Councilmember Hon Lien. Montano was first elected Milpitas mayor in 2022 after serving as vice mayor \u2014 making her the first woman mayor in the city\u2019s history. With Milpitas mayors serving two years per term, the 2024 &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":53562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}