Ed Lee will be able to take the “Interim” out of his

Ed Lee will be able to take the “Interim” out of his title and become San Francisco’s first Asian American mayor, beating Supervisor John Avalos by a wide margin. He was appointed to lead the city in January after then-Mayor Gavin Newsom became lieutenant governor in January.

George Gascon will hold onto his position as District Attorney and Ross Mirkarimi will become San Francisco’s next Sheriff.

The Lee campaign threw its considerable organizational muscle behind creating an overwhelming early voting turnout–by some estimates 80 percent of Chinatown voters, a group heavily favoring Lee, voted absentee–and that proved too high a hurdle for Avalos to surmount.

Source AP