Two San Francisco Democrats will compete in the district’s first U.S. House election without an incumbent in nearly four decades.
SAN FRANCISCO—Primary voters selected two prominent local Democratic Party candidates, California state Sen. Scott Wiener and city supervisor Connie Chan, during the nonpartisan primary on June 2 in a race to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Wiener, who received 41.3 percent of the vote, and Chan, with 28.6 percent, with 50 percent reporting, will face off in the midterms on Nov. 3 for California’s 11th Congressional District, covering most of San Francisco.
The seat has been held since 1987 by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), whose retirement announcement in November 2025 opened the door for new representation and prompted a field of 11 candidates to enter the race.
Wiener served on the San Francisco City Council from 2011 to 2016 and was elected to the state Senate in 2016, where he chairs the Elections and Constitutional Amendments and Budget and Fiscal Review committees while serving on the Judicial and Public Safety committees.
During his tenure, Wiener led efforts to pass pro-LGBT policies, promoted criminal justice reform reducing sentencing guidelines, and repeatedly blocked bipartisan legislation targeting fentanyl dealers whose drugs cause death.
Chan—who helped create a $400 million city reserve to fund initiatives, including illegal immigrant services, in the event of federal cuts—received Pelosi’s endorsement late in the campaign.
Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti—co-founder of the progressive political action committee Justice Democrats and former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)—self-funded his campaign to the tune of nearly $200 million and received 14.9 percent of the vote.
Attorney Marie Hurabiell, a former Republican who ran as a Democrat, earned 4.7 percent of the vote after campaigning on a moderate platform calling for a new approach that addresses crime and drug addiction differently than party leaders have in the past.
Others competing for the seat included Democrats John Buffler, Keith Freedman, Omed Hamid, and Gregory Haynes; Republicans David Ganezer and Jingchao Xiong; and independent Nathan Deer.
California’s jungle primary system, passed by voters with Proposition 14 in 2010, advances the two contenders that receive the most votes, regardless of party affiliation.
Pelosi won a special election in 1987 and has served in Congress ever since. In 2007, she became the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the House.
