electmalia.org

Candidate Malia Cohen uses the Chinese name Kuo Han on Chinese language ballots

It remained difficult to pick a winner in two of San Francisco's supervisorial races on Tuesday afternoon, a full week after the election.

In the race for District 10, Malia Cohen was leading theater professional Tony Kelly by a very slim margin after ranked-choice votes were included in their vote tallies, according to a report published Tuesday afternoon by the San Francisco Elections Department.

Lynette Sweet and Marlene Tran are also among the pack of candidates who are leading the race to represent the highly multicultural district, which includes swaths of poverty and pockets of affluence.

"I can guarantee you with absolute certainty that no one thought Marlene Tran was a contender," David Lee, executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee said. "The fact that she would best well-known candidates like Lynette Sweet and Malia Cohen, so-called leading candidates, and come within 15 votes of Tony Kelly, speaks volumes to the growing power of the Chinese vote in district ten."

In District 2, Mark Farrell held a slight lead over Janet Reilly, a Tuesday elections report showed.

Jane Kim appears set to win District 6, and Scott Wiener is comfortably leading in District 8.

Wiener said his opponents had already called him to concede the election.

“The people in District 8 and, frankly, throughout the city want City Hall to work,” Wiener said by telephone. “They’re looking for elected officials who are not ideological, who just want to find a solution.”

The counting of mail-in ballots and reallocation of losing candidates’ votes under the city’s ranked-choice voting system could continue until late November.

The San Francisco Chronicle used Tuesday's report to predict that Cohen will represent District 10 and Farrell will win in District 2.