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Turnout | 42.96% 2.56 pp (first-round) [1] [2] [3] 48.84% 5.88 pp (runoff) [1] [4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 San Francisco mayoral election was held on November 2, 1999, with a runoff election held on December 14, 1999. Incumbent mayor Willie Brown won reelection against supervisor and current Assemblyman Tom Ammiano and nine other candidates for a second term as Mayor of San Francisco.
There is a documentary about the election titled See How They Run. [5] [6]
Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Willie Brown (incumbent) | 75,732 | 38.90 | |
Tom Ammiano (write-in) | 49,384 | 25.37 | |
Frank Jordan | 32,893 | 16.90 | |
Clint Reilly | 24,322 | 12.49 | |
Martin Lee Eng | 2,232 | 1.15 | |
Lucrecia Bermudez | 1,709 | 0.88 | |
Cesar Ascarrunz | 1,578 | 0.81 | |
Jim Reid | 1,502 | 0.77 | |
Joel Ventresca | 1,379 | 0.71 | |
David J. Martz | 949 | 0.49 | |
Mark "Superbooty" O'Hara | 919 | 0.47 | |
A. D. Wyatt Norton | 765 | 0.39 | |
Max Wood | 511 | 0.26 | |
William Felzer | 494 | 0.25 | |
J. R. Manuel | 277 | 0.14 | |
Steve Shyte (write-in) | 8 | 0.00 | |
Larry J. Edmund (write-in) | 7 | 0.00 | |
Anatole Ghio (write-in) | 4 | 0.00 | |
Total votes | 194,665 | 100.00 | |
Voter turnout | 42.96% | ||
Runoff election | |||
Willie Brown (incumbent) | 131,983 | 59.61 | |
Tom Ammiano | 89,428 | 40.39 | |
Invalid or blank votes | 6,836 | % | |
Total votes | 228,247 | 100.00 | |
Voter turnout | 48.84% |
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