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Wiener leads Kim in SF state Senate race
Trump wins White House by Lisa Keen
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or a brief period Tuesday evening, it looked like heavily LGBT Broward County, Florida, might give Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton the boost she needed to win that state’s critical 29 electoral votes. If it had, the race would have been over. It didn’t happen. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the state with 49.1 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 47.7 percent. And by 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Times and some other media outlets were project-
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ay San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener was in first place in his bid for the city’s 11th state Senate District seat as of Wednesday morning, with the unofficial returns showing him likely to defeat his opponent, fellow Supervisor Jane Kim. See page 10 >>
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State Senator-elect Scott Wiener speaks with school board candidate Ian Kalin at Wiener’s election night party at Beaux.
Lesbian Out SF supervisor candidates fall short incumbents win E. Bay T races Rick Gerharter
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esbian incumbents had a good election night in Alameda County, while several other out candidates running in down ballot races faired poorly. Jane Philomen Cleland In Oakland lesbian at-large City Coun- Rebecca Kaplan cilwoman Rebecca Kaplan beat back a challenge from Peggy Moore, a well-known lesbian Democratic campaign consultant, and several other challengers to win a third four-year term in office. And next door in Berkeley, Judy Appel, a lesbian on the city’s school board, secured her second four-year term on the oversight body. She was one of three candidates running for two seats on the Berkeley Unified School District board. See page 23 >>
A similar situation played out in the race for the District 7 suhe two out San Francisco pervisor seat west of Twin Peaks, supervisor candidates on where Joel Engardio, a gay jourTuesday’s ballot appear to nalist who ran for the seat four have both fallen short. years ago, was in second against After landing in second place incumbent progressive Superviduring the first round of votsor Norman Yee. ing, they both remained behind In the first round of voting, the first-place finishers in their Engardio garnered 21.5 percent respective races under the city’s of the vote and Yee was leading instant runoff voting system. with 39.38 percent. In third place It marks the first time since in the five-person race was Ben Harvey Milk’s historic election Matranga, who led the city’s Viin 1977 that the city’s Board of sion Zero project to end pedesSupervisors will not have an out trian deaths, with 18.86 percent elected member on it come Januof the vote. ary when the winners of TuesKhaled Sayed When his supporters’ second day’s odd-numbered supervisor District 11 supervisor candidate Kimberly Alvarenga fell short in and third votes were redistributdistricts are sworn into office. ed, along with those of the other her race. At the end of the year gay Dischallengers, real estate agents trict 9 Supervisor David Campos John Farrell and Mike Young, southeastern neighborhoods at City Hall. will depart due to term limits Yee emerged the winner after five rounds with In the first round Alvarenga had 32.17 perand no LGBT person ran to succeed him. And 57.40 percent or 11,816 votes. Engardio was in cent of the vote, while Safai was in first place second with 42.60 percent or 8,771 votes. gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener appears with 38.81 percent. Since neither captured the headed to the state Legislature, having pulled Engardio conceded Wednesday morning, 50 percent plus one vote threshold needed to off a victory over his opponent, straight District telling his supporters in an emailed message win the seat outright, the ranked choices of the 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, after placing second in that, “While we came in second place, there’s voters for the other three candidates in the race much to be grateful for.” the June primary. were added to Alvarenga and Safai’s totals. In the race to succeed District 11 Supervisor On election night Engardio told the Bay Area After five rounds, Safai emerged the winner Reporter that “it is good to be in second,” as it John Avalos, who is termed out of office, lesbian with 53 percent or 7,663 votes, with Alvarenga in meant his message had resonated with residents union leader Kimberly Alvarenga lost to fellow second with 46.95 percent or 6,782 votes based union leader Ahsha Safai, who is straight and See page 23 >> on the unofficial returns Wednesday morning. a moderate, in their bid to represent the city’s
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