Connie Chan
Connie Chan is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California, representing District 1. She assumed office on January 8, 2021. Her current term ends on January 8, 2029.
Chan (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 11th Congressional District. She declared candidacy for the primary scheduled on June 2, 2026.[source]
Biography
Connie Chan obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis.[1]
2026 battleground election
Ballotpedia identified the June 2 top-two primary for California's 11th Congressional District as a battleground election. The summary below is from our coverage of this election, found here.
Nine Democrats and one Republican are running in the top-two primary for California's 11th Congressional District on June 2, 2026. As of March 2026, Saikat Chakrabarti (D), Connie Chan (D), and Scott Wiener (D) led in fundraising, endorsements, and local media attention.[2][3]
Incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D) is not running for re-election. Mission Local's Joe Eskenazi said: "Nobody still in the business has run a real San Francisco congressional race. Pelosi has held this seat since 1987. There hasn’t been a serious and competitive race for two generations."[4] As of March 2026, Pelosi had not endorsed any of the candidates.
Chakrabarti is a former software engineer and staff member for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D). Chakrabarti co-founded Justice Democrats after the 2016 presidential election.[5] In his Candidate Connection survey, Chakrabarti said he was running because "San Franciscans are being crushed by the cost of living and betrayed by leaders who are too comfortable in power to fight for us."[6] Eskenazi said, "Chakrabarti’s lane is narrow...[he is] in the unusual position of appealing to San Francisco voters who gravitate to national left-wing politics without yet having the backing of San Francisco voters who gravitate to San Francisco left-wing politics."[4] Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D) endorsed Chakrabarti.[7]
Chan is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Before her election in 2020, Chan worked in the city government, including as a staffer for then-District Attorney Kamala Harris.[8] Chan says she is running "for all the people who feel like they’re getting priced out of their own city. I’m running for those who are under attack by the Trump Administration."[9] Eskenazi said Chan's potential base of support includes "Asian/Chinese voters, the Westside and then an assortment of Great Highway refuseniks, disgruntled neighborhood dwellers and others who are chafing against what used to be referred to as 'Downtown.'"[4] Sen. Adam Schiff (D) endorsed Chan.[10]
Wiener is a member of the California Senate. Before his election to the Senate in 2016, Wiener served for five years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.[11] Wiener says he is running "to defend San Francisco, our values, our people, and the Constitution of the United States with everything I have."[12] Eskenazi said Wiener "has a stronghold in District 8, the neighborhood that consistently has the highest voter turnout, and is also the only significant moderate or LGBTQ candidate in the race."[4] California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) endorsed Wiener.[13]
Also running in the primary are Cole Bettles (D), Omed Hamid (D), Darren Helton (D), Marie Hurabiell (D), Daniel Wheeler (D), Jingchao Xiong (R), and David Ganezer (R).
In a top-two primary, all candidates running for a given office appear on the same primary ballot. The top two finishers—regardless of party affiliation—advance to the general election. The Democratic Party of California endorsed Wiener.[14] As of March 2026, the Republican Party of California had not endorsed any candidate.[15]
As of March 2026, major election forecasters rated the general election Safe/Solid Democratic. In 2024, Pelosi defeated Bruce Lou (R) 81%–19%.
Elections
2026
See also: California's 11th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Nonpartisan primary
Nonpartisan primary election for U.S. House California District 11
The following candidates are running in the primary for U.S. House California District 11 on June 2, 2026.
Candidate | ||
| Cole Bettles (D) | ||
| John Buffler (D) | ||
 | Saikat Chakrabarti (D)  | |
 | Connie Chan (D) | |
 | Keith Freedman (D) | |
 | Omed Hamid (D) | |
| Gregory Haynes (D) | ||
 | Darren Helton (D) | |
 | Marie Hurabiell (D) | |
| Daniel Wheeler (D) | ||
 | Scott Wiener (D) | |
| David Ganezer (R) | ||
 | Jingchao Xiong (R) | |
 | Nathan Deer (No party preference) | |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Nancy Pelosi (D)
Polls
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Candidate spending
| Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Bettles | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| John Buffler | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Saikat Chakrabarti | Democratic Party | $1,769,248 | $1,656,981 | $112,266 | As of December 31, 2025 |
| Connie Chan | Democratic Party | $174,385 | $54,854 | $119,531 | As of December 31, 2025 |
| Keith Freedman | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Omed Hamid | Democratic Party | $34,968 | $0 | $34,968 | As of December 31, 2025 |
| Gregory Haynes | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Darren Helton | Democratic Party | $5,247 | $5,247 | $0 | As of December 31, 2025 |
| Marie Hurabiell | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Daniel Wheeler | Democratic Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Scott Wiener | Democratic Party | $2,785,939 | $511,574 | $2,274,365 | As of December 31, 2025 |
| David Ganezer | Republican Party | $59 | $16 | $43 | As of December 31, 2025 |
| Jingchao Xiong | Republican Party | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
| Nathan Deer | No party preference | $0 | $0 | $0 | Data not available*** |
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Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2026. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." |
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Satellite spending
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Endorsements
Chan received the following endorsements. To send us additional endorsements, click here.
- U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D)
- California Teachers Association
- National Nurses United
- SEIU California
- San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
- San Francisco Labor Council
2024
See also: City elections in San Francisco, California (2024)
General election
General election for San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 1
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Connie Chan in round 4 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 35,478 |
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Chan in this election.
2020
See also: City elections in San Francisco, California (2020)
General election
General election for San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 1
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Connie Chan in round 6 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 36,076 |
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2026
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Campaign websites
Chan's campaign website stated the following:
Lowering the Cost of Living, Expanding Opportunity
Connie Chan understands that the affordability crisis is driven by both skyrocketing costs and shrinking opportunities for working people. For the past 40 years, productivity has gone up, but real wages have been stagnant for most workers. Small businesses have been squeezed by ever larger corporations. And in recent years, costs have gone through the roof, making it more difficult for all but the very wealthiest Americans to get by.
Connie is committed to addressing both sides of the affordability crisis: costs and earnings.
Connie will work to build housing working people and families can afford, protect the Affordable Care Act and expand Medicaid to bring down health premiums, and lower utility and energy costs for all by expanding our green infrastructure. San Francisco has been a leader in addressing child care costs but with federal support, we can do more - she will work to pass legislation that brings down the cost of child care while ensuring early child care educators earn a living wage.
At the same time, Connie will support investments in manufacturing and construction to support middle income job creation and sectoral diversification, push for funding for career technical education to expand high-paying options for workers, and work in solidarity with organized labor to raise the national minimum wage and secure fair wages for all workers – in the United States and our major trading partners.
She’ll also work to ensure that the benefits of technological progress are broadly shared by all. Connie will ensure that our public K-12 schools are fully resourced; restore and redouble national investment in our research universities and the innovations they drive; and stand up for sensible oversight of fair, competitive, and innovative financial markets.
Finally, Connie will fight Donald Trump’s ridiculous and costly tariff policies which are hurting American workers and small businesses while pushing prices even higher for working families.
Housing
We need to build and support housing that our families can afford in ways that support vibrant, sustainable communities. Connie understands that a lack of funding has stalled far too many long-approved projects and that deregulation won’t build the housing San Francisco needs. The federal government can do much more to provide grants and low-interest loans to finance low- and middle-income housing, expand the housing tax credits that spur sustainable mixed use development, increase rental assistance to vulnerable tenants, and support innovative social housing programs designed to enable working families to remain in our cities.
Connie knows that relying on corporate developers to build affordable housing hasn’t worked - we need direct federal investments in housing and transit so we can guarantee our City workforce can afford to live and thrive in San Francisco. She will make a commitment to secure the resources needed to create both low-income and middle-income housing, expand the paths to home ownership for first-time buyers, and protect tenants.
Immigration
San Francisco is a city that was built by immigrants. No city in the nation understands more the importance of standing up for our immigrant communities and all those who have been targeted by Donald Trump. As a first generation immigrant, Connie feels this deeply and supports creating a pathway to citizenship, protecting and reaffirming birthright citizenship, and protecting San Francisco as a sanctuary city.
Connie will stand up to the Trump Administration and demand an end to the raids that terrorize our immigrant communities, violate due process, and undermine our rights. She will call for full accountability of any administration official who has violated the law and the due process of our residents. And she’ll push for comprehensive immigration reform, humane border security, and an end to the inhuman abuses and discriminatory practices of ICE and CBP.
Workers' Rights
Connie has been a strong supporter of labor unions, collective bargaining, and workers’ rights. As Supervisor, she worked to strengthen protections for workers, raise wages, and combat wage theft. In Congress, she’ll work to empower American workers by protecting their right to organize and unionize.
Connie will cosponsor the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to provide more workers with the freedom to organize and negotiate with their employers. And she will work to strengthen the Occupational Safety and Health Act and its related agencies to ensure that workers are protected on the job - and that we have the oversight to make sure safe workplace rules are enforced.
Health Care
Connie Chan supports Medicare for All which guarantees that every American has a right to health care, everyone is covered, and the health care system is no longer driven by insurance companies. Connie will work to enact this critical legislation when elected to Congress.
Connie also knows we have to protect the hard-won gains Americans have made thanks to the Affordable Care Act. She will push to restore funding to Medicaid, and renew subsidies that allowed families to buy insurance on the ACA exchanges. She will also support additional funding for community health clinics and restore the program to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
Connie also knows that health care research, funded by the federal government, has been fundamental in improving countless lives over the last century. San Francisco has been at the heart of these ground-breaking medical discoveries. She will fight against cuts to medical research and will demand a return to sound and non-politicized science at the FDA, CDC and other agencies that research or approve health care treatments.
Reproductive Rights
Connie will always fight for access to the full range of reproductive health care including abortion and affordable contraception. She will support and champion restoration of our fundamental right to make decisions about our own bodies and when and if to have children. And she will work to make sure no insurance or health care policy prohibits women from seeking the care they need and deserve.
Connie will also push to restore full funding for Planned Parenthood which provides critical health services to over 2 million Americans every year.
LGBTQ+
Connie Chan will fight back against the bigoted and transphobic Trump agenda and work with likeminded colleagues to protect our LGBTQ+ community. She will support legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or sex, work to end the Trump prohibition on transgender men and women serving in the military, support the No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act, and she will work to ban conversion therapy nationally.
Connie will also work to strengthen health access by pushing to lift any prohibitions for people on Medicare, Medicaid or other federal health programs to receive gender affirming care. She will work to increase funding for programs that support individuals living with HIV, for research into a cure for AIDS/HIV, and to support the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth – including the right of transgender youth to participate in sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
Education
Connie Chan learned English attending a San Francisco public school. Public schools were a doorway to her new home in America and she believes those doorways must stay open for all students. She will vote to fully fund all federal mandates on public schools and opposes Trump efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.
San Francisco has been a leader in addressing child care costs but with federal support, we can do more. Connie will work to pass legislation that brings down the cost of child care while ensuring early child care educators earn a living wage.
San Francisco was a pioneer in creating Free City - free access to community college for every resident. Connie will champion this initiative in Congress and also push for more support for career and technical education, apprenticeships, and trades so that every young person, regardless of the path they take, has the skills and tools for a good-paying job.
Connie also understands that higher education is unaffordable for many students. She supports efforts to reduce and eliminate student debt burdens and make public higher education tuition free.
Climate Change
As a legislative staffer, Connie was proud to work with Supervisor Sophie Maxwell in shutting down the Mirant Power Plant that was polluting our communities. And she was proud that her first bill as a Supervisor was to ban oil extraction in San Francisco. She understands that climate change is a threat to our environment, our economy, and our health - one that disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities.
Connie supports a Green New Deal to invest in clean energy that reduces greenhouse gases, moves us away from fossil fuels and foreign oil, and creates good paying jobs. She will support federal investments in public transit, walking, and biking to help us have healthier, more livable communities. Right now, it can be very difficult for local governments to fund transit and too often, they resort to regressive sales taxes. As our representative in Congress, Connie will be a partner in bringing home the resources needed to support these programs.
Clean Power
San Francisco’s recent citywide power outage left hundreds of thousands of residents in the dark, shut down small businesses during the busiest time of the year, disrupted public transit, and put vulnerable seniors and families at risk without heat or food. This failure exposed the consequences of relying on a privatized monopoly that prioritizes profits over delivering safe, reliable power. San Francisco and California deserve better.
Connie is committed to holding Pacific Gas & Electric accountable and continuing to fight for a public energy system that works for our city. She will push to expand CleanPowerSF and advance state and federal policies that give cities the authority to build publicly owned, community-controlled energy systems.
Global Security
The Trump Administration has been a disaster on foreign policy (as well as domestic). Connie Chan firmly opposes the Trump destruction of programs that supported vulnerable children and families overseas and their foolish trade war that has hurt our relationships and raised prices for consumers.
Connie is firmly committed to a foreign policy that prioritizes peaceful solutions and supports democratic ideals and human rights. She will push to de-prioritize the use of military force and work for fair trade that uplifts workers and protects the global environment. And she will work to restore critical and life-saving foreign aid programs.
Middle East
Connie Chan will be an immediate sponsor of the Block the Bombs Act which would prohibit the United States from transferring weapons that have been used by the Israeli military in Gaza. She understands that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly violated human rights and that his cynical attempts to evade criminal charges has prolonged the conflict. Connie Chan will advocate for a permanent ceasefire as a first step to a just solution for both the Jewish and Palestinian people. And she would push for a major expansion of food, medical and humanitarian aid in response to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
The division over this conflict has led to increased anti-semitism and Islamophobia here in America and Connie will always stand against and fight bigotry in any form.
Asia
Connie will always prioritize the pursuit of productive diplomatic solutions that promote mutual benefits in all regions of the world, including Asia. The world is large enough for every country to pursue sustainable and harmonious development. As the two largest economies in the world, both the United States and China can engage with one another through mutual respect, accountability and peaceful coexistence, safeguarding our national security while seeking common areas of agreement. While differences may exist on certain issues, Connie firmly believes these can and should be resolved through equal and constructive dialogue.
Connie’s family roots trace back to mainland China. She was born in Hong Kong and attended elementary school in Taiwan, and she still has family members living in Hong Kong. Having lived and grown up in different regions, she has come to deeply appreciate the importance of peace and stability.
Central America
The Trump Administration has been a disaster for our national security. Nowhere is that more clear than the illegal bombing campaign against small boats in the Pacific and Caribbean. These executions, without any due process or evidence, are clear violations of international law and Connie Chan will fight to stop them, investigate them fully, and hold those responsible accountable.
— Connie Chan's campaign website (March 5, 2026)
Chan's campaign website stated the following:
Connie Chan: On the Issues
We need to fight back against the Trump Administration - and then we need to do more. Connie Chan will work to undo the damage created by Trump policies. And she'll advocate for solutions to long-standing issues so we can rebuild our middle class, strengthen the safety net and protect our rights.
Lowering the Cost of Living, Expanding Opportunity
Connie Chan understands that the affordability crisis is driven by both skyrocketing costs and shrinking opportunities for working people. For the past 40 years, productivity has gone up, but real wages have been stagnant for most workers. Small businesses have been squeezed by ever larger corporations. And in recent years, costs have gone through the roof, making it more difficult for all but the very wealthiest Americans to get by. Connie is committed to addressing both sides of the affordability crisis: costs and earnings. Connie will work to build housing working people and families can afford, protect the Affordable Care Act and expand Medicaid to bring down health premiums, and lower utility and energy costs for all by expanding our green infrastructure. San Francisco has been a leader in addressing child care costs but with federal support, we can do more - she will work to pass legislation that brings down the cost of child care while ensuring early child care educators earn a living wage.At the same time, Connie will support investments in manufacturing and construction to support middle income job creation and sectoral diversification, push for funding for career technical education to expand high-paying options for workers, and work in solidarity with organized labor to raise the national minimum wage and secure fair wages for all workers – in the United States and our major trading partners. She’ll also work to ensure that the benefits of technological progress are broadly shared by all. Connie will ensure that our public K-12 schools are fully resourced; restore and redouble national investment in our research universities and the innovations they drive; and stand up for sensible oversight of fair, competitive, and innovative financial markets.Finally, Connie will fight Donald Trump’s ridiculous and costly tariff policies which are hurting American workers and small businesses while pushing prices even higher for working families.
Housing
We need to build and support housing that our families can afford in ways that support vibrant, sustainable communities. Connie understands that a lack of funding has stalled far too many long-approved projects and that deregulation won’t build the housing San Francisco needs. The federal government can do much more to provide grants and low-interest loans to finance low- and middle-income housing, expand the housing tax credits that spur sustainable mixed use development, increase rental assistance to vulnerable tenants, and support innovative social housing programs designed to enable working families to remain in our cities. Connie knows that relying on corporate developers to build affordable housing hasn’t worked - we need direct federal investments in housing and transit so we can guarantee our City workforce can afford to live and thrive in San Francisco. She will make a commitment to secure the resources needed to create both low-income and middle-income housing, expand the paths to home ownership for first-time buyers, and protect tenants.
Immigration
San Francisco is a city that was built by immigrants. No city in the nation understands more the importance of standing up for our immigrant communities and all those who have been targeted by Donald Trump. As a first generation immigrant, Connie feels this deeply and supports creating a pathway to citizenship, protecting and reaffirming birthright citizenship, and protecting San Francisco as a sanctuary city.Connie will stand up to the Trump Administration and demand an end to the raids that terrorize our immigrant communities, violate due process, and undermine our rights. She will call for full accountability of any administration official who has violated the law and the due process of our residents. And she’ll push for comprehensive immigration reform, humane border security, and an end to the inhuman abuses and discriminatory practices of ICE and CBP.
Workers' Rights
Connie has been a strong supporter of labor unions, collective bargaining, and workers’ rights. As Supervisor, she worked to strengthen protections for workers, raise wages, and combat wage theft. In Congress, she’ll work to empower American workers by protecting their right to organize and unionize.
Connie will cosponsor the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to provide more workers with the freedom to organize and negotiate with their employers. And she will work to strengthen the Occupational Safety and Health Act and its related agencies to ensure that workers are protected on the job - and that we have the oversight to make sure safe workplace rules are enforced.Health Care
Connie Chan supports Medicare for All which guarantees that every American has a right to health care, everyone is covered, and the health care system is no longer driven by insurance companies. Connie will work to enact this critical legislation when elected to Congress.
Connie also knows we have to protect the hard-won gains Americans have made thanks to the Affordable Care Act. She will push to restore funding to Medicaid, and renew subsidies that allowed families to buy insurance on the ACA exchanges. She will also support additional funding for community health clinics and restore the program to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
Connie also knows that health care research, funded by the federal government, has been fundamental in improving countless lives over the last century. San Francisco has been at the heart of these ground-breaking medical discoveries. She will fight against cuts to medical research and will demand a return to sound and non-politicized science at the FDA, CDC and other agencies that research or approve health care treatments.Reproductive Rights
Connie will always fight for access to the full range of reproductive health care including abortion and affordable contraception. She will support and champion restoration of our fundamental right to make decisions about our own bodies and when and if to have children. And she will work to make sure no insurance or health care policy prohibits women from seeking the care they need and deserve.Connie will also push to restore full funding for Planned Parenthood which provides critical health services to over 2 million Americans every year.
LGBTQ+
Connie Chan will fight back against the bigoted and transphobic Trump agenda and work with likeminded colleagues to protect our LGBTQ+ community. She will support legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or sex, work to end the Trump prohibition on transgender men and women serving in the military, support the No Place for LGBTQ+ Hate Act, and she will work to ban conversion therapy nationally. Connie will also work to strengthen health access by pushing to lift any prohibitions for people on Medicare, Medicaid or other federal health programs to receive gender affirming care. She will work to increase funding for programs that support individuals living with HIV, for research into a cure for AIDS/HIV, and to support the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth – including the right of transgender youth to participate in sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
Education
Connie Chan learned English attending a San Francisco public school. Public schools were a doorway to her new home in America and she believes those doorways must stay open for all students. She will vote to fully fund all federal mandates on public schools and opposes Trump efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. San Francisco has been a leader in addressing child care costs but with federal support, we can do more. Connie will work to pass legislation that brings down the cost of child care while ensuring early child care educators earn a living wage.San Francisco was a pioneer in creating Free City - free access to community college for every resident. Connie will champion this initiative in Congress and also push for more support for career and technical education, apprenticeships, and trades so that every young person, regardless of the path they take, has the skills and tools for a good-paying job.Connie also understands that higher education is unaffordable for many students. She supports efforts to reduce and eliminate student debt burdens and make public higher education tuition free.
Climate Change
As a legislative staffer, Connie was proud to work with Supervisor Sophie Maxwell in shutting down the Mirant Power Plant that was polluting our communities. And she was proud that her first bill as a Supervisor was to ban oil extraction in San Francisco. She understands that climate change is a threat to our environment, our economy, and our health - one that disproportionately impacts historically disadvantaged communities. Connie supports a Green New Deal to invest in clean energy that reduces greenhouse gases, moves us away from fossil fuels and foreign oil, and creates good paying jobs. She will support federal investments in public transit, walking, and biking to help us have healthier, more livable communities. Right now, it can be very difficult for local governments to fund transit and too often, they resort to regressive sales taxes. As our representative in Congress, Connie will be a partner in bringing home the resources needed to support these programs.
Clean Power
San Francisco’s recent citywide power outage left hundreds of thousands of residents in the dark, shut down small businesses during the busiest time of the year, disrupted public transit, and put vulnerable seniors and families at risk without heat or food. This failure exposed the consequences of relying on a privatized monopoly that prioritizes profits over delivering safe, reliable power. San Francisco and California deserve better. Connie is committed to holding Pacific Gas & Electric accountable and continuing to fight for a public energy system that works for our city. She will push to expand CleanPowerSF and advance state and federal policies that give cities the authority to build publicly owned, community-controlled energy systems.
Global Security
The Trump Administration has been a disaster on foreign policy (as well as domestic). Connie Chan firmly opposes the Trump destruction of programs that supported vulnerable children and families overseas and their foolish trade war that has hurt our relationships and raised prices for consumers.
Connie is firmly committed to a foreign policy that prioritizes peaceful solutions and supports democratic ideals and human rights. She will push to de-prioritize the use of military force and work for fair trade that uplifts workers and protects the global environment. And she will work to restore critical and life-saving foreign aid programs.Middle East
Connie Chan will be an immediate sponsor of the Block the Bombs Act which would prohibit the United States from transferring weapons that have been used by the Israeli military in Gaza. She understands that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly violated human rights and that his cynical attempts to evade criminal charges has prolonged the conflict. Connie Chan will advocate for a permanent ceasefire as a first step to a two-state solution. And she would push for a major expansion of food, medical and humanitarian aid in response to the genocide of the Palestinian people.
The division over this conflict has led to increased anti-semitism and Islamophobia here in America and Connie will always stand against and fight bigotry in any form.Asia
Connie will always prioritize the pursuit of productive diplomatic solutions that promote mutual benefits in all regions of the world, including Asia. The world is large enough for every country to pursue sustainable and harmonious development. As the two largest economies in the world, both the United States and China can engage with one another through mutual respect, accountability and peaceful coexistence, safeguarding our national security while seeking common areas of agreement. While differences may exist on certain issues, Connie firmly believes these can and should be resolved through equal and constructive dialogue.
Connie’s family roots trace back to mainland China. She was born in Hong Kong and attended elementary school in Taiwan, and she still has family members living in Hong Kong. Having lived and grown up in different regions, she has come to deeply appreciate the importance of peace and stability.Central America
The Trump Administration has been a disaster for our national security. Nowhere is that more clear than the illegal bombing campaign against small boats in the Pacific and Caribbean. These executions, without any due process or evidence, are clear violations of international law and Connie Chan will fight to stop them, investigate them fully, and hold those responsible accountable.
— Connie Chan's campaign website (January 16, 2026)
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2024
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2020
Connie Chan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chan's responses.
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- To recover from COVID-19, we must expand wage-worker protections, ensure our workers are paid a living wage, and have a voice to fight for safer working conditions.
- We also need to prioritize helping small businesses recover and revise our small business tax code to hold corporate and chain businesses to equal standards as our local merchants.
- To weather the coming recession we need to expand protections for tenants and look to mortgage relief and assistance to keep people housed.
2. Economy and Labor: Help small businesses by streamlining the permit process, providing dedicated assistance to accessing state and federal help, and reforming our tax code to ask large corporations to pay their fair share and ease the burden on our small businesses. Strengthen protections for our workers, including fair wages and safer working conditions.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 17, 2020
- ↑ San Francisco Examiner, "Word on the Street: A 'once-in-a-generation' race for SF voters," January 8, 2026
- ↑ Mission Local, "And then there were three: The race to succeed Nancy Pelosi takes shape," November 24, 2025
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Candidate Connection survey submitted to Ballotpedia on November 14, 2025.
- ↑ Saikat Chakrabarti campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 5, 2026
- ↑ Connie Chan campaign website, "Meet Connie," accessed March 3, 2026
- ↑ Connie Chan campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 3, 2026
- ↑ Instagram, "Connie Chan on March 4, 2026," accessed March 5, 2026
- ↑ Scott Wiener campaign website, "Meet Scott," accessed March 3, 2026
- ↑ Scott Wiener campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 3, 2026
- ↑ Scott Wiener campaign website, "Endorsements," accessed March 5, 2026
- ↑ Democratic Party of California, "2026 Primary Election Endorsements," February 22, 2026
- ↑ Republican Party of California, "2026 Endorsements," accessed March 3, 2026
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed December 12, 2021
- ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed December 12, 2021
- ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," December 12, 2021
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