Several SF election contests still up in the air

A week has passed since the election, but three San Francisco supervisors races and the hard-fought contest for the state Senate seat representing the city and northern San Mateo County are still several days from being decided.

A total of 105,000 late-arriving mail ballots and provisional ballots remained to be counted in San Francisco on Monday, and even more mail ballots were likely to arrive before the city Elections Department’s cutoff of 5 p.m.

On Monday afternoon, workers sorted the lavender envelopes into mail bins in the basement of City Hall.

Wiener has maintained a consistent lead since election night, and on Monday it totaled 13,833 votes — 161,012 to Kim’s 147,179 — a margin that translates into a 52.2 to 47.8 percent advantage.

Three races are still undecided, and elections officials must wait until all the votes are tabulated before they can run the ranked-choice process that will determine the winners.

The raw vote total has narrowed since election day in District 11 between moderate Ahsha Safai and progressive Kimberly Alvarenga.

The two are battling to fill termed-out progressive Supervisor John Avalos for the seat representing the Excelsior, Merced Heights and Ingleside neighborhoods.

In District Seven, progressive Supervisor Norman Yee looks to be in good shape in his re-election contest against four challengers led by Joel Engardio.