Progressives may have lost in the mayoral election, but they certainly won in District 9 where Jackie Fielder beat the second-place candidate by nearly 5,000 votes, according to the latest round of returns released Sunday. A few miles north, in District 3, they weren’t so lucky.
Fielder, a climate advocate and democratic socialist, co-founded the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition, co-managed a campaign fighting a San Francisco Police Department use-of-force policy, and most recently worked as the co-director of Stop the Money Pipeline. Trevor Chandler, a former Citizen app employee, got the second-highest number of votes.
Nonprofit executive Danny Sauter challenged Board President Aaron Peskin in the 2020 race for D3 supervisor and got 43% of final round votes. This time, with 55.4% of the votes Sunday, he handily beat Sharon Lai, a former transportation official backed by progressive organizations including the Working Families Party.
In District 7, Supervisor Myrna Melgar successfully fended off her challenger, with the incumbent garnering 52.7% of the vote to Matt Boschetto’s 47.3% in the latest round of returns Sunday.
Other districts are still too close to call.
Supervisor Dean Preston is trailing Bilal Mahmood by about 1,339 votes in District 5. Grow SF put up a huge billboard in the district promising Mahmood would turn the vacant Divisadero car wash site into housing. Mahmood, a moderate backed by tech money, has leveraged business-friendly donors’ frustration with the democratic socialist incumbent.
The District 1 race went from being tied — both Connie Chan and challenger Marjan Philhour received 11,001 votes (including ranked-choice tally) in earlier returns — to the incumbent pulling ahead by 976 votes on Sunday.