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The makeup of Chicago’s next school board is becoming clearer.

Two of the three races that were too close to call on election night have been settled, according to the Associated Press. Therese Boyle, a former teacher, prevailed over three other candidates in District 9. Che “Rhymefest” Smith, an artist and activist, won a four-way race in District 10. Both candidates were running their races Tuesday night.

The District 1 contest has yet to be officially called, where Jennifer Custer held onto her lead over Michelle Pierre as the final ballots were counted.

Meanwhile, one of the 10th District candidates trailing in the race said he has retained an attorney after the revelation that some voters were given ballots with the wrong candidates — a problem that an election official said Tuesday it was quickly fixed.

Citywide, 54,150 mail-in ballots and about 5,760 provisional ballots remain to be counted over the weekend, according to the Chicago Board of Elections.

Barring a reversal of results in Ward 1, four teachers union-backed candidates, three pro-school candidates and three independent candidates will have won in the city’s first-ever school board election. The winners will join 11 other board members appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Custer was the candidate endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union in District 1, while Boyle and Smith ran as independent candidates.

A spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections said Tuesday that voters in a number of precincts received ballots with the wrong school board candidates. That happened because the school board’s new district boundaries don’t follow ward and precinct lines, spokesman Max Bever said at the time. He said he believes the issue was addressed fairly quickly, and the board doesn’t know how many constituents experienced it.

Bever did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.

Karin Norington-Reaves, the District 10 candidate who finished second to Smith, said she was not giving up and was considering legal action. She said all mail-in and advance ballots must be counted and argued Thursday that voters who received ballots for the wrong school district were denied the opportunity to participate in the city’s first school board election. She said she has hired a lawyer.

“It’s not about sour grapes,” she said. “When it’s so close and we have so many uncounted ballots and so many irregularities, I don’t recognize it.”

Norington-Reaves said she began receiving calls and texts Tuesday morning from supporters who were handed ballots with candidates in the District 9 race. She said she contacted the Board of Elections about the issues around 10am that day, but in at least one constituency, it took until almost 1pm for the correct ballot papers to be provided to voters. She blamed insufficient training and preparation for election judges for the problems.

“A significant number of voters have been disenfranchised,” she said. “That’s what happens when you come up with these arbitrary configurations that aren’t tied to existing boundaries.”

State lawmakers drew the new school board’s district boundaries after much back-and-forth and three revisions in March, about three years after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law that paved the way for an elected school board in Chicago and just six months before the election.

Michelle Pierre, who is trailing in the yet-to-be-called District 1 race, said she called on her opponent, Jennifer Custer, to drop the race Wednesday.

“I wanted to be respectful to Jennifer and to this race,” she said. “Deep down, Lord knows I’d like the race to go my way. Right now, I don’t see that happening.”

Pierre said he’s also heard from some supporters that they received the wrong ballot, but he doesn’t know how widespread the problem was or how it might have affected the District 1 outcome.

Mila Koumpilova is Chalkbeat Chicago’s senior reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Mila at [email protected].