The 2003 California gubernatorial recall election was a special election permitted under California state law. It resulted in voters replacing incumbent Democratic Governor Gray Davis with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. The recall effort spanned the latter half of 2003. Seven of the nine previous governors,including Davis,had faced unsuccessful recall attempts.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco.
Eric Lee Mar is an American politician. He served on the San Francisco Board of Education and San Francisco County Democratic Central Committee. In 2008,he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represented District 1.
The San Francisco Board of Education is the school board for the City and County of San Francisco. It is composed of seven Commissioners,elected by voters across the city to serve 4-year terms. It is subject to local,state,and federal laws,and determines policy for all the K-12 public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District.
The 2008 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections occurred on November 4,2008. Seven of the eleven seats of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were contested in this election. Four incumbents were termed out of office,while three ran for reelection.
The 2004 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections occurred on November 2,2004. Seven of the eleven seats were contested in this election. Six incumbents and one open seat were up for election.
The 2000 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections occurred on November 7,2000,with a runoff election held on December 12,2000. All eleven seats were contested. Elections to odd-numbered districts were to four-year terms,while elections to even-numbered districts were to transitional two-year terms,then four-year terms thereafter.
Gary R. George is an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Milwaukee,Wisconsin. He represented Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Senate for 22 years before being recalled from office in 2003.
Jane Kim is an American attorney and politician,and the first Korean American elected official in San Francisco. She represented San Francisco's District 6 on the Board of Supervisors between 2011 and 2019. She is a member of the San Francisco's Democratic County Central Committee. She is executive director of the California Working Families Party.
The 1975 mayoral election was held to select the 37th mayor of San Francisco,and was held in two parts. In the November regular election,then-Speaker of the California State Assembly George Moscone placed first with conservative city supervisor John Barbagelata second and moderate supervisor Dianne Feinstein coming in third. Moscone and Barbagelata thus both advanced to the mandated runoff election in December where Moscone narrowly defeated the conservative supervisor by 4,400 votes,a margin of less than 1%.
Katy Tang is a former American elected official in San Francisco,California. She served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 4.
Aaron Dan Peskin is an American elected official in San Francisco,California. He serves as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 3,and was elected President of the Board by his fellow supervisors on January 9,2023,after seventeen rounds of voting. He was elected in 2015,having previously served two terms in 2001–2009. Peskin is currently serving his fourth term as District Supervisor.
Proposition 62 was a California ballot proposition on the November 8,2016,ballot that would have repealed the death penalty and replaced it with life imprisonment and forced labor without possibility of parole. It would have applied retroactively to existing death sentences and increased the portion of life inmates' wages that may be applied to victim restitution.
Matthew Craig Haney is an American politician from San Francisco currently serving as a member of the California State Assembly from the 17th district,covering the eastern portion of the city. A progressive member of the Democratic Party,Haney had represented District 6 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as a commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Education from 2013 to 2019.
The 2021 California gubernatorial recall election was a special recall election that began in August 2021 and concluded on September 14,2021,when California voters chose not to recall incumbent Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom,elected for the term January 2019 to January 2023.
The 2018 election for the San Francisco Board of Education was held on November 6,2018,to elect the next three commissioners for the San Francisco Board of Education.
The 2022 California 17th State Assembly district special election was a special election to fill the vacant 17th Assembly District. The special election was called after incumbent Assemblymember David Chiu resigned the seat to become City Attorney of San Francisco. Matt Haney,a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,won the election.
The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney recall election was a successful special recall election to remove San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office. It was held on June 7,2022,concurrent with the 2022 statewide primary elections.
The 2022 San Francisco Board of Education recall elections were held on February 15,2022. Voters had the option to remove each of three San Francisco Board of Education Commissioners—Alison Collins,Gabriela Lopez,and Faauuga Moliga—from office. Lopez was president of the board at the time,while Collins and Moliga had served as vice president previously. All three commissioners were removed with landslide results,and were replaced by appointees chosen by mayor London Breed. The other members of the school board were not eligible for recall at this time.
The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney special election was held on November 8,2022,following the successful recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. It was held concurrent with the 2022 statewide general elections.
