Alan Wong and his supporters react to the 72% vote rate at Hole in the Wall Pizza, where his party is, in the Sunset district of San Francisco on election night, Tuesday, June 1, 2026.
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Alan Wong and his supporters celebrate his election win at Hole in the Wall Pizza, where his party is, in the Sunset district of San Francisco on election night, Tuesday, June 1, 2026.
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Alan Wong and his supporters react to the 72% vote rate at Hole in the Wall Pizza, where his party is, in the Sunset district of San Francisco on election night, Tuesday, June 1, 2026.
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Bobak Esfandiari selfies with Alan Wong and his campaign team at the headquarters next to Hole in the Wall Pizza, where his party is, in the Sunset district of San Francisco on election night, Tuesday, June 1, 2026.
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Alan Wong, D4 supervisor candidate, hosts election night party at Hole in the Wall Pizza in the Sunset district of San Francisco on election night, Tuesday, June 1, 2026.
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From left, campaign manager Daniel Anderson, supervisor candidate Natalie Gee, and supporter Max Leung sit together following the results of the District 4 elections at a watch party at Chug Pub in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 02, 2026.
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District 1 candidate Natalie Gee is seen campaigning ahead of her elections watch party on Irving Street in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 02, 2026.
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Composite clockwise of Natalie Gee, Albert Chow, David Lee, Alan Wong.
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San Francisco District 4 Supervisor candidate David Lee stands for a portrait in the Chronicle studio on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in San Francisco.
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San Francisco District 4 Supervisor candidate Natalie Gee stands for a portrait in the Chronicle studio on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in San Francisco.
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San Francisco School Board candidate Albert Chow stands for a portrait in the Chronicle studio on Thursday, April 16, 2026, in San Francisco.
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San Francisco District 4 Supervisor candidate Alan Wong stands for a portrait in the Chronicle studio on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, in San Francisco.
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Supervisor Alan Wong was elected Tuesday in the supervisor race for San Francisco’s Sunset District in the ranked-choice election. The result is a promising sign for Mayor Daniel Lurie who appointed Wong to represent the Sunset District at the end of last year and who had endorsed his campaign.
With more votes yet to be counted, Wong had the most first-choice votes and was leading with 72% of votes after ranked-choice voting was factored in. Natalie Gee was second with 28% of the vote. At Wong’s election night watch party at Hole in the Wall Pizza on Irving Street, attendees jumped and hugged each other in celebration while Wong shook hands and hugged supporters.
“It’s not a surprise. We just don’t brag like the other campaigns about things openly,” Wong told the Chronicle at his party, referring to his victory. “I’m a military officer. I believe in operational security. When we’re doing stuff, we keep on doing what we’re doing, and we don’t broadcast what we’re doing.”
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Wong credited his boots-on-the-ground campaign, including knocking on a majority of doors in the Sunset, Lurie’s support, as well as his track record as supervisor, for his electoral win. He said that he focused on the “basics of governance,” including taking care of things like advocating for SFMTA to add a left turn signal to the busy Chain of Lakes Drive and Lincoln Way intersection, where residents had complained of how difficult it was to turn left.
“(My parents) came here because they want a safe and clean neighborhood to raise a family, with good quality schools,” said Wong, the child of Chinese immigrants. “That’s what the Sunset has been to me, and that’s what I want to create for the next generation of young people.”
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Wong will fill out the remainder of former Supervisor Joel Engardio’s term, which would have ended in January. Engardio was recalled by voters in September. Another election, in November, will determine who will represent the district for a full four-year term.
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Several Sunset residents lined up to challenge Wong, including Gee, a legislative aide to Supervisor Shamann Walton; Albert Chow, an organizer of the campaign to recall Engardio; David Lee, a political science lecturer; and Jeremy Greco, a campus coordinator. Chow declined to comment Tuesday evening.
A victory for Gee, a longtime legislative aide to Supervisor Shamann Walton, would have meant a boost for the Board of Supervisors’ progressive minority, which has largely found itself outvoted by moderates aligned with Lurie. Though the moderates are not poised to lose their majority on the board, Gee’s success could come as a blow to Lurie, who had endorsed Wong.
Tuesday’s election comes after a politically turbulent chapter for the Sunset following Engario’s recall, which was driven largely by frustrations over his support for a citywide ballot measure that closed a stretch of the Great Highway to cars to create a park. Sunset Dunes park was created in the wake of that 2024 ballot measure. Many voters in the Sunset blamed Endgardio for what they saw as adverse effects on the neighborhood, like the diversion of more traffic into neighborhoods.
The mayor’s first pick to fill Engardio’s seat in the immediate aftermath of the recall, Beya Alcaraz, resigned after only a week in office following revelations about a pet shop she had owned and operated.
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Voters’ strong feelings about the future of Sunset Dunes continued to play an animating force throughout the campaign, even though most candidates support a proposal to reopen the Great Highway to cars on weekends. Only one candidate, Greco, campaigned on a pro-park platform.
But the Great Highway wasn’t the only issue dividing the field. Wong frustrated some voters in the district by voting in favor of the mayor’s “Family Zoning” plan, which allowed for denser and taller residential development in parts of the city, including the Sunset. Wong was backed by moderate, pro-housing groups aligned with Lurie’s administration. All told, outside political groups spent more than $723,000 backing Wong, a sum that drew condemnation from Wong’s challengers, who banded together to decry the outside spending at a rally in April.
Two key factors were on Wong’s side entering the election: his incumbent track record and Lurie’s endorsement.
Rumesha Ahmed, a District 4 resident since 2014, said she liked Wong as soon as she met him at a Wah Mei School event last December. Her support of Wong only grew when she reached out to his office to express concerns about the uneven surface at the Sunset Rec Center playground, where her daughter often plays. She worried that kids would trip and fall. She said Wong’s office responded two days later to say that they had obtained funding to resurface the playground in the fall.
“For me he represents stability,” said Ahmed, who volunteered for his campaign.
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Randy Bi, a Sunset resident of two years, said a “huge reason” he voted for Wong was Lurie’s endorsement of him. A self-described Lurie fan, Bi said he liked how Lurie was “letting San Francisco be itself” by promoting business and doing “common sense” things, such as tackling homelessness.
As Lurie arrived at Wong’s election night party Tuesday, Bi gasped, “holy crap” and supporters cheered. Lurie said he was proud of how hard Wong worked and that the people in the city loved that “the supervisors and mayor are working well together.”
“You know this district,” Lurie said to Wong. “You care deeply about listening to people and making sure the Sunset has a voice.”
San Francisco uses ranked choice voting. If a candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, he or she wins. If not, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and voters who selected that candidate as their first choice have their second-choice votes counted — a cycle that repeats until a candidate gets a majority of votes.
Gee and several of the other challengers in the race also hoped to leverage ranked choice voting to their advantage, urging supporters to leave Wong off their ballots entirely.
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Gee garnered significant support from a coalition of labor unions. She was also endorsed by a range of progressive stalwarts, including current and former supervisors and groups including the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club and the San Francisco Tenants Union. Unlike Wong, Gee has been critical of plans to add more density and height to development in the Sunset and stressed her desire to see additional protections for tenants and small businesses.
In a statement, Gee thanked the people who helped her knock on doors and make phone calls in her campaign.
“I’m proud to have been able to stand up for working families in my neighborhood,” Gee said. “It appears the price to pay to win this seat is to abandon your convictions and abandon working families, and that is not a price I was ever willing to pay.”
She said that the “movement we built is only getting started” and that she looked forward to continuing to be a champion for the Sunset and working people. Gee had previously expressed openness to running in November if she lost but her campaign manager said Tuesday night that they could not yet confirm if she would.
Camille Cohen contributed reporting.