Wiener and Chan advance in race to succeed Nancy Pelosi
LOS ANGELES — State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA) and Connie Chan have advanced to the general election for the seat held by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in the 11th Congressional District.
Wiener’s march to November was confirmed in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but Chan, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, had to wait longer. With 50% of the votes counted, Wiener got 44,521 votes, good enough for a 41.3% share, while Chan had 30,887 votes, or 28.6%.
Saikat Chakrabarti, a tech entrepreneur and former campaign manager for then-candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, finished in third place by some distance, garnering just 14.9% of the vote.
The contest was the first truly competitive race for the Northern California seat in nearly four decades and had a crowded field of 11 candidates.
Pelosi, 86, who is in her 18th term in Congress, is regarded as one of the most powerful women in U.S. political history. She was the first woman to serve as speaker of the House and was the ch…