SFGATE: Chesa Boudin takes lead over Suzy Loftus in neck-and-neck San Francisco DA's race

Chesa Boudin takes lead over Suzy Loftus in neck-and-neck San Francisco DA's race
Published on November 09, 2019 at 06:02AM by Alix Martichoux, SFGATE

A new tally, updated after 4 p.m., shows Chesa Boudin with a razor-thin lead over Suzy Loftus.

If you just look at first-choice votes, Boudin has a wider lead over Loftus: 61,796 to her 55,899. But multiple rounds of ranked-choice voting make the race a lot tighter. After candidates Nancy Tung and Leif Dautch were eliminated, Boudin was ahead 78,809 to 78,653 — a difference of only 156 votes or 50.05% to 49.95%.