# United States Representative, District 11 Compare records and positions simply between Scott Wiener or Connie Chan for United States Representative, District 11 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (2-year term). - Jurisdiction: Federal - 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/us-rep-11 - 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 4, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 85 out of 100 (Strong), across 13 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Scott Wiener** — State Senator · Democratic - **Connie Chan** — San Francisco Supervisor · Democratic This is an open seat and both November candidates are Democrats: State Senator Scott Wiener led the June 2 primary with 40.7% and San Francisco supervisor Connie Chan took 29.7%. The district covers most of San Francisco. The winner holds one of 435 seats in the U.S. House for a two-year term. A member introduces bills, sits on committees that shape federal legislation, votes on the federal budget and on war powers, and handles casework between constituents and federal agencies. Because this seat is open, whoever wins starts at the bottom of the seniority ladder that governs committee assignments. With two Democrats on the ballot, party is not the axis. One brings a substantial state legislative record and the largest individual-donor base in this part of the ballot; the other brings city government experience and about a quarter of the money. Both are funded overwhelmingly by individuals rather than committees, which is unusual and means neither is notably beholden to institutional donors. ## Scott Wiener Scott Wiener has spent 28 years in San Francisco public service, as a deputy city attorney, a member of the Board of Supervisors, and, since 2016, a state senator (campaign site). He describes himself as "a nationally renowned leader on housing." He has authored state laws that streamlined approval for tens of thousands of new homes, including more than 3,000 affordable units in San Francisco, and helped build the statewide YIMBY movement (campaign site). He chairs the state Senate's Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee (Hoodline). He says he will keep confronting the Trump administration, pointing to a law he authored that he calls "first-in-the-nation legislation to make it illegal for ICE to wear masks" after "masked agents began disappearing people off the streets" (campaign site). On July 1, 2026, he voted no on his own committee on AB 2753, which would have barred anyone on the sex-offender registry from running for office. With two other members abstaining, the bill fell one vote short of the majority it needed to advance. He argued the ban swept too broadly and said he could support a narrower version limited to lifetime tier-three registrants (Hoodline). He promises to keep building "8 million new homes" nationally and to "expand federal funding for transit and cut red tape to deliver projects faster" (campaign site). He also promises to defend federal research funding from cuts and to keep fighting for LGBTQ people, immigrants and "vulnerable communities" against what his campaign calls Trump's "unprecedented assault" (campaign site). **Strengths:** A long record of passing state housing and transit laws, and he wrote the nation's first AI safety law, signed in 2025 (CalMatters). **Trade-offs:** His housing laws remove local hurdles so the state can push cities to build. Chan says that lets developers bypass local review; he calls the claim untrue (CalMatters). **Keep in mind:** His committee vote against a sex-offender candidacy ban drew criticism; he says he wanted the ban narrowed to lifetime registrants, not dropped. ## Connie Chan Connie Chan immigrated to San Francisco from Hong Kong at age 13 with her mother and younger brother, graduated from Galileo High School, and earned her degree at UC Davis (campaign site). She worked as a legislative aide to Supervisors Sophie Maxwell and Aaron Peskin and as a public-safety aide under then-District Attorney Kamala Harris. She won her own seat on the Board of Supervisors in 2020 and has chaired its Budget Committee since February 2023 (campaign site). She says, "I'm a daughter of Chinatown," and frames her candidacy as extending the opportunity she found in "a sanctuary city" to others nationally (Mission Local). In 2020, amid the protests after George Floyd's killing, she supported Mayor London Breed's push to redirect a portion of the police budget toward community investment, a position an opposition group called "Clear Out Connie" later used against her (SF Standard). She won reelection in 2024 by 1,167 votes, having also won her first race in 2020 by just 123 votes (SF Standard). She says her lived experience shapes her politics: "For the longest time, you don't get to go out, you don't get to buy a home, you don't actually get to be here" (Mission Local). She promises to fight for affordable housing, protect small businesses, and be a voice for "working families" who worry about "putting food on the table, childcare and keeping a roof over one's head" (Mission Local). Her campaign says it "will not take money from corporate PACs or AIPAC or its lobbyists and representatives, the NRA or lobbyists and executives from pharma, PG&E, fossil fuel or tobacco companies" (campaign site). If elected she would be the first Asian American to represent San Francisco in Congress (campaign site). **Strengths:** Five years on the Board of Supervisors and the city's Budget Committee, plus deep ties to San Francisco's Chinese American community. **Trade-offs:** She voted against the mayor's rezoning plan, and a debate moderator said her district approved the fewest new homes since 2021. She says she is protecting tenants from displacement (CalMatters). **Keep in mind:** Her most-covered vote in this race is her 2020 support for redirecting police funding toward community programs, which drew organized opposition. ## Record in office This seat is open — no candidate on the November ballot currently holds it. Scott Wiener (Democratic) is a sitting State Senator and is lead author of 35 bills in the 2025–2026 session, 11 of them signed into law. Connie Chan has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Per the California Legislature's public bill data (leginfo bulk download), retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Record details Wiener — SB 40 (2025): Health care coverage: insulin. Wiener — SB 59 (2025): Change of name or gender and sex identifier. Wiener — SB 63 (2025): San Francisco Bay area: local revenue measure: public transit funding. Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Scott Wiener** — $4,561,120 raised (Individuals: $4,450,683; PACs & committees: $93,676) - **Connie Chan** — $1,094,321 raised (Individuals: $940,671; PACs & committees: $152,500) Total raised is all receipts for the 2026 cycle; the breakdown lists direct contributions, so the pieces can sum below the total. Figures are FEC filings through June 30, 2026, per the FEC bulk campaign-finance summaries, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Review notes - Connie Chan for Congress, Connie Chan for Congress, Scott Wiener for Congress, and Scott Wiener for Congress may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote) 2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org) 3. [Scott Wiener for Congress — campaign homepage (bio, career background)](https://www.scottwiener.com/) 4. [Scott Wiener for Congress — Priorities page (housing, transit, opposition to Trump)](https://www.scottwiener.com/priorities) 5. [Hoodline — California Senate committee rejects AB 2753 sex-offender candidacy ban (Wiener's vote and reasoning)](https://hoodline.com/2026/07/sacramento-shocker-california-senate-snubs-sex-offender-office-ban/) 6. [Connie Chan for Congress — About page (bio, career background)](https://www.conniechansf.com/about) 7. [Connie Chan for Congress — campaign homepage (no-corporate-PAC pledge, priorities)](https://www.conniechansf.com/) 8. [Mission Local — Connie Chan kicks off campaign for Congress (her own words on running, background, priorities)](https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/chinatown-immigrant-billionaire-sf-connie-chan-congress/) 9. [SF Standard — Connie Chan wins reelection to Board of Supervisors, 2024 (record, 2020 police-funding stance, Clear Out Connie opposition)](https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/11/san-francisco-election-2024-connie-chan-wins/) 10. [CalMatters — How San Francisco's housing prices are defining the race to replace Pelosi (Wiener's permit-streamlining laws, Chan's vote against the family zoning plan and her stated reasons, each side's criticism of the other)](https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/08/wiener-chan-san-francisco-congress-pelosi/) 11. [CalMatters — San Francisco congressional candidates clash over AI, housing and labor (October 1 debate: Wiener's 2025 AI safety law, the moderator's statement on homes approved in Chan's district since 2021, and her answer)](https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/congressional-district-11-wiener-chan-debate/) 12. [California Legislative Information — public bill data (bulk download)](https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/) 13. [FEC — 2026 House & Senate current-campaign financial summaries (bulk data)](https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/2026/webl26.zip) ## The rest of the ballot United States Representative, District 11 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, "United States Representative, District 11 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/us-rep-11 (sources last retrieved October 4, 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.