San Francisco -- San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris made history Wednesday, becoming the first woman, the first African American and first Indian American in California history to be elected state attorney general. The outcome of the tight race between Harris, a Democrat, and Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley came a full three weeks after election day. The Republican phoned Harris Wednesday morning to concede defeat and congratulate her on her win. Harris has yet to claim victory, opting to wait until Tuesday when the final count is in, but a spokesman for Cooley said he will not request a recount despite the fact that the margin between the two prosecutors remains within 1 percentage point. Harris' victory completes a clean sweep of the eight statewide offices for California Democrats, and is widely viewed as a win for environmentalists, health care reform advocates, same-sex marriage proponents and medical marijuana supporters. 'In Kamala Harris, Californians have elected a dynamic leader with a passion for justice that will serve our state well,' said California Labor Federation Executive Secretary-Treasurer Art Pulaski, who noted that the Golden State bucked national trends in sweeping Democrats to victory. 'While much of the country took a step backward this past election, Californians rejected a return to the failed policies that brought our nation's economy to its knees.' Harris' achievement will leave San Francisco, which is already set to lose its mayor, without a top prosecutor. Lt. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and Harris are scheduled to take office Jan. 3. Newsom has indicated that if Harris resigns before he does, he will heed her recommendation in choosing a replacement district attorney. The Board of Supervisors will choose Newsom's replacement, and that replacement would also pick Harris' successor if a new district attorney isn't named before the mayor resigns. Voters will weigh in on both offices in November. Through spokesmen, Newsom and Harris both declined to comment Wednesday on the process or who they would like to see replace her as prosecutor. A number of people have made clear their interest in succeeding Harris, including attorney Bill Fazio, Deputy District Attorney Paul Henderson, former prosecutor and San Francisco police commissioner Jim Hammer and David Onek, a senior fellow at the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. Board of Supervisors President David Chiu and Judge Katherine Feinstein, daughter of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, have also come up as possible contenders, though it's not clear if either are interested. Harris' win comes after weeks of uncertainty, during which the race's leader flip-flopped between the two candidates as counties around the state continued to tally mail-in and provisional ballots. Ultimately, with just 50,000 votes -- half of a percentage point -- separating the two candidates, Cooley conceded. His campaign consultant, Kevin Spillane, said that even with an estimated 150,000 votes left to be tallied, the margin between the two candidates was too substantial for Cooley to win. Harris did not immediately claim victory, however. In a written statement, campaign spokesman Brian Brokaw said she 'believes it is only appropriate to wait until all the votes are counted before making a public declaration.' He said Harris will hold a news conference on Tuesday, the day counties will submit their final vote counts to the secretary of state. Cooley was favored to win the race, and managed to lock down the endorsements of all of California's large law enforcement groups. Spillane blamed Democrats' voter registration advantage and a poor Republican showing this November for the loss. He noted that Cooley was the top GOP vote-getter on Nov. 2, losing Los Angeles County by 14 points, compared to the 30 point margin for most Republican candidates there. 'If this had been a nonpartisan office, he would have won by several points,' Spillane said. 'But the fact is, even with the collapse of the Republican ticket, and tremendous Democratic turnout, Cooley actually ran a very strong race.' In a written statement, Cooley echoed that sentiment, saying it is 'unfortunate that someone who is a nonpartisan nonpolitician could not overcome the increasingly partisan tendencies of the state, even for an office that by its nature necessitates a nonpartisan approach.' Harris' supporters -- which included labor and environmental groups -- saw things differently. She had faced a tough battle, in part because of her opposition to the death penalty but also, because as a mixed-race woman from the liberal Bay Area she was a nontraditional law enforcement candidate. The largest differences between the two prosecutors were on issues important to the Democratic base: she supports same-sex marriage, promised to aggressively pursue environmental cases and pledged not to challenge the national healthcare reform. Her campaign also got some help from medical marijuana advocates, who, citing Cooley's crackdown in Los Angeles, aggressively campaigned against him. Geoff Kors, director of the gay rights group Equality California, praised Harris in a written statement. He noted that she, like Gov.-elect Jerry Brown, has promised not to defend Proposition 8 in court. The voter-approved measure banned same-sex marriage in California. 'Harris has long championed full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Californians, and we are extremely fortunate to have a true friend in the attorney general's office working to make California a state where everyone is treated equally under the law,' he said. With Harris' victory, the Bay Area now has five politicians holding statewide offices in Sacramento, including Brown and Newsom, Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. 