Chinese-Americans in the East Bay are celebrating the return of Wilma Chan, reports the World Journal. Securing 55 percent of the votes in Tuesday's election, the Chinese-American candidate will soon return to her seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors after 10 years, reports the World Journal. Chan was the supervisor of District 3 in Alameda County from 1994 to 2000, before joining the State Assembly.

Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber Foundation, was excited to hear the news. He described Wilma Chan as an experienced and promising politician. He said the Chinese community always has high expectations of her and hopes she can enhance Chinatown’s economic development and job opportunities.

In 2006, Chan termed out as the state assemblywoman for District 16 and showed interest in running for supervisor again. But at that time her former assistant Alice Lai-Bitker declared her candidacy for the same position, so Chan backed off under public pressure. Lai-Bitker won, but earlier this year she announced she would not run for re-election and offered her support to Chan.

Wilma Chan said she was glad to bring her political experience back to the county office, especially to address the budget shortfall and better city planning.

Things are looking up for other Chinese candidates in the Bay Area as well, according to the World Journal. Sandra Lee Fewer, Tom Hsieh, Mary Jung, Eric Mar and David Chiu were elected to the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC), while Evan Low, Gilbert Wong and Peter Y. Chiu were elected to the Santa Clara DCCC. Stephanie Jeong and Rodney Leong were elected to the San Francisco Republican Central Committee. San Francisco Superior Court Judges Bruce Chan and Newton Jue Lam were also elected after running unopposed.

However, Iraq War vet Garrett Yee was defeated by Bob Wieckowski (47.8 percent to 52.2 percent) for the Democratic nomination for the state Assembly seat in District 20.

Meanwhile, state Senator Leland Yee of District 8, state Assemblyman Paul Fong of District 22 and state Assemblywoman Fiona Ma of District 12, who all ran unopposed, will be the Democratic Party's nominees in the November elections.