Sacramento City Councilman Robbie Waters has lost the District 7 seat he has held since 1994.

Sacramento County’s election website showed that Waters, with 1,935 votes, follows two challengers in the polls. District 7 candidates Ryan Chin and Darrell Fong are expected to compete in a runoff, Assistant City Clerk Stephanie Mizuno said Wednesday morning.

District 7 includes the neighborhoods of Greenhaven / Pocket and Valley-Hi.

With all precincts reporting, Chin has 38 percent of the vote. Fong is chasing Chin with 31 percent of the vote. The two candidates are separated by a few hundred votes: Chin has 2,712, while Fong has 2,215.

While Mizuno cautioned that the results are semi-official, she said the percentages showed a runoff for Fong and Chin.

Brad Buyse, the county’s campaign services manager, said Wednesday morning that more than 20,000 vote-by-mail ballots came in Tuesday.

It’s unclear how many, if any, of those 20,000 ballots affect the District 7 seat. Buyse said the vote-by-mail ballots are still in envelopes, Buyse said.

Buyse said the county has 28 days to certify election results, according to state law.

Photo by Anthony Bento.

Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.