Theo Ellington appeared victorious on election night to be San Francisco’s new District 10 supervisor, early results show.
Running against two other top candidates, J.R. Eppler and Dion-Jay “DJ” Brookter, Ellington received about 67% of votes in the final round of the ranked choice voting process, which allows voters to rank candidates based on preference. The tally included most vote-by-mail ballots received before Election Day and all ballots from Election Day polling places.
District 10 covers the southeast corner of the city, including the Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, Visitacion Valley and Candlestick Point neighborhoods. Current Supervisor Shamann Walton has represented the district at City Hall since 2018.
Ellington was born and raised in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood and is on the Board of Directors for the Ruth Williams Opera House, a performing arts center in the Bayview District. He has served on several city commissions, led homelessness initiatives with the Salvation Army, and worked as the director of public affairs for the Golden State Warriors.
Ellington has played an active role in the fight to properly clean up the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “Superfund” site contaminated with hazardous materials after decades of naval activities that led to the accumulation of radioactive material in the soil and water near the site.
Ellington was one of the plaintiffs who sued property developers of a parcel at the site of the former shipyard in a lawsuit after Tetra Tech EC, a company hired by the Navy to clean up the site, was accused of falsifying radiological test results of soil.
Brookter, a former commissioner on the San Francisco Police Commission and a former member of the Sheriff’s Oversight Board, finished second in the ranked choice voting process. Brookter received Walton’s endorsement in the election.
Eppler finished third via ranked choice. He’s an attorney and has served as the president of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association. In 2022, he was chosen by then-board president Walton to serve on the city’s Board of Appeals.
All election night results are preliminary, and the tallies will continue to be updated with the remaining ballots, which include those received on or after Election Day.
On Wednesday, the San Francisco Department of Elections will publish the number of ballots that still need to be counted. It will also post updated results at 4 p.m. each day through Nov. 13.
