San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston on Sunday conceded to challenger Bilal Mahmood in the race to keep his District 5 seat in last week's election.
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston on Sunday conceded to challenger Bilal Mahmood in the race to keep his District 5 seat in last week's election.According to the latest results released by the San Francisco Department of Elections on Sunday afternoon, Preston won more first choice votes but ended up trailing after the city's ranked choice voting system eliminated other candidates in the race and left Mahmood with 13,083 ranked choice votes compared to 11,744 for Preston.
'Mahmood is a former policy analyst in the Obama Administration who went on to found and work for several nonprofit philanthropic organizations. He was endorsed by Mayor London Breed and state Sen. Scott Wiener, among others.
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