San Francisco Board Of Supervisors Races Still Undecided
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / BCN) -- San Francisco's elections for four new members of the 11-member Board of Supervisors remained undecided on Wednesday.
With no candidates achieving a 50-percent majority of votes in races in District 2, 6, 8 and 10, San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system will determine the winners in the coming days.
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District board member Janet Reilly and investment banker Mark Farrell led the pack to succeed Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier in District 2 in the Marina and Russian Hill neighborhoods.
Reilly garnered nearly 42 percent of the vote and Farrell 39 percent, according to unofficial results.
In District 6, which covers the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, Board of Education President Jane Kim received 31 percent of the vote, Building Inspection Commissioner Debra Walker 28 percent and Human Rights Commission Director Theresa Sparks 16 percent.
District 8 in the Castro District and Noe Valley will be led by either Deputy City Attorney Scott Weiner, who got nearly 42 percent of the vote, or public law and affordable housing attorney Rafael Mandelman, who received 36 percent.
The top vote-getters in District 10, covering the Bayview District, Potrero Hill and Visitacion Valley, were community activist Tony Kelly, with 13 percent, BART board director Lynette Sweet and Malia Cohen, a public affairs, media and policy consultant, with 12 percent each, and Steve Moss, founder of San Francisco Community Power, with just over 11 percent.
Supervisor Carmen Chu ran unopposed in District 4, which covers the Sunset District.
The jockeying to succeed Gavin Newsom as mayor now also begins.
Newsom appeared headed for Sacramento with a comfortable lead in the California lieutenant governor's race over incumbent Abel Maldonado.
The Board of Supervisors will be tasked with choosing an interim replacement to hold the city's top post until the next election in November 2011.
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