In San Francisco Richmond District, Race for Supervisor Is Going Down to the Wire

Marjan Philhour leads by just 87 votes in the race for San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors District 1 seat, representing the Richmond District.

The politically moderate candidate and former senior advisor to Mayor London Breed is closely trailed by Connie Chan,  a progressive Democrat and former aide to Supervisor Aaron Peskin.

After six rounds of ranked-choice voting, the race remains too close to call. The city still has an estimated 61,000 ballots to process, 51,000 of which are vote-by-mail, 9,000 provisional and 900 conditional voter registration ballots.

The Department of Elections will likely begin counting provisional ballots from District 1 on Friday and provisional ballots from the remaining districts over the weekend.

— Julie Chang, Kevin Stark (@starkkev)

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