In the North Side lakefront 48th Ward, which includes part of Uptown as well as Edgewater and Andersonville, small business owner and progressive organizer Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth’s campaign declared victory over affordable housing developer Joe Dunne.

The two finished atop a crowded 10-way race in February to replace retiring Ald. Harry Osterman. He and many of the city’s major labor organizations endorsed Dunne, while progressives such as mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson and several Asian American elected officials backed Manaa-Hoppenworth, who is Filipina. Dunne finished with 26% of the vote to Manaa-Hoppenworth’s 23% in February.

With 100% of precincts reporting, Manaa-Hoppenworth captured 52% of the vote to Dunne’s 48%, according to unofficial results. She declared victory roughly two hours after the polls closed, though Dunne did not concede.

Dunne campaign manager Erika Caldwell, told the Tribune late Tuesday they would not make a statement until all the mail-in ballots were counted. “We want to make sure every vote is counted,” Caldwell said.

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Even so, Manaa-Hoppenworth’s campaign manager, Joz Sida, declared victory.

“It’s palpable: people are excited, and we’re very excited we were able to execute our field plan and our grassroots program with no money from Super PACs or developers,” Sida told the Tribune.

The ward has been grappling with higher housing costs and vacancies along some of its economic corridors. Dunne, who has worked with the nonprofit Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation, argued he was best equipped to usher through more affordable housing options. Manaa-Hoppenworth backs lifting the ban on rent control.

The two split on their approach to crime. Dunne backed more frequent police patrols. Manaa-Hoppenworth favors alternatives to traditional policing, but emphasized that does not “use the term” abolition when talking about the future of policing.

“We’re spending a lot of our budget on policing, and not everybody feels safe,” she previously told the Tribune. “So we have to look at not only the dollars that we’re spending, and not only the number of officers that we have on the force, but how we’re actually using them, where they’re being deployed.”

[ Live election results: 48th Ward ]

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