San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom won more than 77 percent of the votes with just 48,104 ballots counted in San Francisco County on Tuesday at 8 p.m. That was more than enough for Newsom to declare his victory to almost 300 campaign volunteers and others gathered for a post-election celebration.

Alongside his girlfriend, Jennifer Siebel and his father, Newsom talked for 15 minutes to his voters at the Ferry Building: "To my critics, this is an opportunity, and in some ways a reconciliation. I commit to working with you for the next four years, and I commit to resolving those areas where you still believe we can do better," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

As a priority, Newsom told that he is going to ask San Francisco voters to approve a bond next fall to pay for the rebuild of San Francisco General Hospital, the most important trauma hospital of the city. Homelessness, housing, health care and education were numbered among his other priorities during his new four-years mandate

His opponents had very weak chances in the run for the mayor office, gathering a very low number of votes from the people. Professor at San Francisco City College, Wilma Pang has received almost 6 percent, Harold Hoogasian, owner of a small business gathered 7 percent, Josh Wolf, who spent 226 days imprisoned for refusing to turn over video recordings of a 2005 protest, received .93 percent, according to the City and County of San Francisco Department of Elections. Among other names that ran for elections were showman Chicken John Rinaldi, nudist George Davis, sex club owner Michael Powers, former teacher H. Brown and physician Ahimsa Porter Sumchai. 

Political consultant Jim Stearns had a few comments upon Newsom’s victory: "People respond to the candidate appeal - the emotional appeal of a person or a battle between people. That just wasn't present, so this wasn't unexpected," San Francisco Chronicle reported.

At her own party at the Far East Café in Chinatown after the election, candidate Wilma Pang said that she was satisfied with her third place, her main concern being the immigrants: "My platform was don't forget the immigrants, and it worked. I'm a professor and seen as a person of integrity, and people paid attention to that."

Newsom seems to have won the competition although not all votes were counted. This places him for the second time in the position of San Francisco’s mayor. The results on the election will be revealed in the next few days or even weeks due to the new state rules in effect for counting ballots, media sources said.