San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney won the 17th Assembly District seat for San Francisco on Tuesday after an eventful campaign against opponent and former Supervisor David Campos.
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At the latest tally as of Wednesday morning, Matt Haney won 38,916, at 63%. Campos won 22,567 votes, at 36%, according to election tracking website, 270 to Win.
"Incredible what we can accomplish when we run on a positive, hopeful pro housing, pro labor, pro human dignity message, grounded in real experiences of residents," Haney wrote on Twitter Tuesday night following the win. "It cuts across neighborhoods & across political divides. That should be the expectation for our politics & leaders."
Haney congratulated Campos and his staff for their hard work Tuesday night. "As I said last night, I respect David and his supporters, and I look forward to working together for our city," he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
The assembly seat covers a large portion of San Francisco, which includes Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, downtown, the Mission and the Tenderloin. The seat became available last year after former Assemblymember David Chiu became the San Francisco City Attorney, as previously reported by KCBS Radio.
Haney has served on the Board of Supervisors for the last four years, representing District 6, and Campos served District 9 for eight years, from 2008 to 2016. He is currently the Vice Chair of the California Democratic Party.
Haney, positioning himself more in the middle of the political aisle than Campos and receiving Mayor London Breed’s endorsement recently, "scored an overwhelming victory," said KCBS Radio Insider Phil Matier Wednesday morning.
The win is likely to impact the next election in the city, the recall vote for District Attorney Chesa Boudin, said Matier.
"Campos is Chesa Boudin's Chief of Staff," said Matier. "And in the last couple of weeks he was trying to distance himself from Boudin."
Haney's win is signaling a larger trend of the city moving more towards the center, instead of as extremely left-leaning, he said.
"This is a moderate shift, a moderate swing," he said. "And we're going to see how it plays out as more and more moderates surface in San Francisco as viable candidates and often winning now."
Breed will have to appoint a new supervisor to fill Haney's seat.
And Haney will run again in June for the statewide primary election. Then again in the Nov. 8 general election.
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