Phil Kim wins SF school board seat, 2 others remain too close to call

San Francisco Chronicle · Jill Tucker · 2026-11-04 05:04 UTC

Phil Kim wins a San Francisco school board seat as 2 others remain too close to call

Incumbent Phil Kim won reelection to the San Francisco school board, while newcomers Tim Tung and Autumn Brown Garibay claimed the other two seats up for election.

Tung and Brown Garibay maintained their election night leads, with fourth-place finisher Virginia Cheung unable to make up the votes needed to catch them.

For the first time in recent memory, none of the candidates endorsed by the United Educators of San Francisco, the local teachers union, won a seat on the seven-member board. The union’s picks — Cheung, Ryan Hazelton and Reina Tello — finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively.

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