In a city whose voters, including LGBTQ voters, are overwhelmingly Democratic, D.C. Democratic elected officials – including four members of the D.C.
Council and D.C. Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton – are considered the strong favorites to win re-election in the city’s Nov.
5 election. Also expected to win is gay Ward 2 D.C. State Board of Education member Allister Chang, who is running unopposed on the ballot for re-election to a second four-year term in office.
Chang is one of two out gay members serving in a D.C. elective office other than Advisory Neighborhood Commission position. The other gay non-ANC elected official is D.C.