# San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8 Compare records and positions simply between Darshini Patel, Michael T. Nguyen, and 2 more for San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on San Francisco's 11-member Board of Supervisors. They vote on city-county laws, the budget, and land use. - Jurisdiction: County - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/sf-supervisor-8 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: October 6, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 96 out of 100 (Very strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Darshini Patel** - **Michael T. Nguyen** - **Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel** (Withdrew.) - **Gary McCoy** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Four names are on the ranked-choice ballot for an open seat, but one of them, Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel, withdrew on October 1, 2026 and is no longer running: Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman is termed out, and the Castro, Noe Valley, Glen Park and Diamond Heights choose a new supervisor for the first time in eight years. None of the three still running has held elected city office — the field is a veteran City Hall and policy aide, an attorney and Democratic committee member, and a tech-operations organizer. The winner holds one of 11 seats on the Board of Supervisors, the city-county's legislature. It writes ordinances, approves the budget the mayor proposes, and decides the land-use questions that determine what gets built where. The term is four years, with a two-term limit. With no incumbent, this is a choice among theories of preparation: years inside City Hall as an aide and policy advocate, law and party organizing, or operations experience from industry and national campaigns. The ranked-choice ballot means second choices matter — you rank the field, not just one name. ## Gary McCoy A longtime aide to U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and former vice president of policy and public affairs at HealthRight 360, a health and recovery services provider, with earlier roles in the city's parks department and legislative offices (per the Examiner). **Strengths:** The field's deepest resume of government work — federal constituent service, city legislative staff experience, and policy leadership at a major health nonprofit. **Trade-offs:** All of it is staff and advocacy work: the record shows service in others' offices, not legislative votes of their own. **Keep in mind:** Aide-to-office is a well-worn San Francisco path; the judgment their resume asks for is whether insider fluency reads to you as readiness or as continuity with the City Hall you already have. ## Michael T. Nguyen An intellectual-property attorney, drag performer, and LGBTQ advocate, elected to the San Francisco Democratic Party's central committee in March 2024 (per the Examiner). **Strengths:** A working lawyer's command of process, plus a March 2024 election win for a Democratic central-committee seat. **Trade-offs:** Party office is not city office — the committee role carries no legislative record — and their early fundraising trailed the field's leaders (per the Examiner). **Keep in mind:** A first campaign for city office run from outside City Hall: their case rests on community advocacy and legal training rather than government experience. ## Darshini Patel A tech-operations veteran who helped launch DoorDash's meal-delivery service in hundreds of markets, with field-organizing experience on Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and Kamala Harris' 2024 get-out-the-vote effort in New Hampshire. Their platform centers childcare, housing, and transit (per the Examiner). **Strengths:** Operations experience at scale from industry plus national campaign field work — a background unlike anyone else's in this race. **Trade-offs:** The thinnest documented San Francisco civic record in the field, and fundraising far behind McCoy's, per the Examiner's race coverage. **Keep in mind:** Their bet is that delivery skills transfer from industry to district services; there is no city record yet to test that against, so their platform specifics carry the weight. ## Manny Yekutiel withdraws Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel withdrew from this race on October 1, 2026. That day, Mission Local reported a new sexual-assault allegation against him. Mayor Daniel Lurie and several supervisors then withdrew their support. Yekutiel owns Manny's, a civic events space and restaurant in the Mission. He co-founded the Civic Joy Fund with Lurie. He led the field's early fundraising. His name is still on the ballot. Ballots were printed before he withdrew, and California does not reprint them for a late withdrawal. The San Francisco Department of Elections still lists him as a qualified candidate. He is still a choice on this ballot, but he is no longer running for the seat. ## Financial info - **Darshini Patel** — $80,354 raised (Small donors: $1,564; Individuals: $16,790; Self-funding: $2,000; Public matching funds: $60,000) - **Michael T. Nguyen** — $144,728 raised (Small donors: $7,699; Individuals: $46,965; Businesses & other orgs: $500; Self-funding: $200; Public matching funds: $89,364) - **Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel** — $764,341 raised (Small donors: $9,815; Individuals: $487,545; PACs & committees: $7,300; Businesses & other orgs: $1,500; Public matching funds: $255,000) - **Gary McCoy** — $322,356 raised (Small donors: $10,363; Individuals: $91,969; PACs & committees: $2,500; Public matching funds: $217,524) Separately, independent committees — not the candidate's campaign — reported $162,758 in spending supporting Gary McCoy: Building a Working SF Sponsored by Labor Organizations (per Form 496 filings). Separately, independent committees — not the candidate's campaign — reported $8,011 in spending opposing Gary McCoy: GrowSF Voter Guide (per Form 496 filings). Public matching funds are city money earned through small-donor support; totals combine reported contributions with approved public funds. Figures are CA Form 460 filings through 2026-06-30, per the SF Ethics Commission's e-filed transaction exports and campaign-finance dashboard, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Review notes - Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel is withdrawn; re-read this contest's editorial for claims that describe them as still running. ## Sources 1. [SF Department of Elections — Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election](https://www.sf.gov/candidates-november-3-2026-general-election) 2. [San Francisco Examiner — 2026 Board of Supervisors race coverage](https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-board-of-supervisors-2026-election-candidates/article_e0b5bd6d-0063-4de8-9707-0bd31ba0315a.html) 3. [SF Department of Elections — Certified results, June 2, 2026 election](https://www.sfelections.org/results/20260602/) 4. [Mission Local -- "Mayor Lurie, S.F. supervisors drop Manny Yekutiel after new sexual assault claim" (Oct. 1, 2026): reports that Yekutiel withdrew from the District 8 race on Oct. 1, 2026 after Mayor Daniel Lurie and several supervisors pulled their endorsements over a new sexual-assault allegation; a companion Mission Local piece notes his name stays on the printed ballot. The SF Department of Elections candidate list (checked 2026-10-06) still shows him as qualified with no withdrawal notation -- California does not reprint ballots for a late withdrawal, so this is the basis for status 'withdrawn' rather than dropping him from the roster.](https://missionlocal.org/2026/10/san-francisco-manny-yekutiel-sexual-assault-district-8-supervisor/) 5. [SF Ethics Commission — campaign-finance dashboard and public-financing dataset](https://campaign.sfethics.org/elections/2026-11-03/) ## The rest of the ballot San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/sf-supervisor-8 (sources last retrieved October 6, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.