Malia M. Cohen is an American politician serving as the 33rd Controller of California since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Cohen previously served as Chair of the California State Board of Equalization from the 2nd district from 2019 to 2023 and as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 10 from 2011 to 2019.
Scott Wiener is an American politician and a member of the California State Senate. A Democrat,he represents the 11th Senatorial District,encompassing San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County.
London Nicole Breed is an American politician who is the 45th mayor of San Francisco,serving since 2018. She was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
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 is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 3. He was elected in 2015,having previously served two terms in 2001–2009.
Starting in the 1990s,the city of San Franciscoand the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area have faced a serious housing shortage. Such is that in October 2015,San Francisco had the highest rents of any major US city. San Francisco has the slowest permitting process of any large city in the United States. The first stage can take an average of 450 calendar days,and the second stage taking 630 days for typical multi-family housing,or 860 days for a single-family house,and the second-most expensive construction costs in the world.
Jeff Sheehy is a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 8. He was appointed to the Board in January 2017 by then-mayor Ed Lee to succeed Supervisor Scott Wiener,who resigned his seat to take office as a member of the California State Senate. Prior to his appointment,Sheehy served as a communications director for UCSF AIDS Research Institute.
Hillary Ronen is an American politician and attorney serving as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 9,which includes the neighborhoods of Mission District,Bernal Heights,and Portola.
Ahsha Safaí is an Iranian-American elected official in San Francisco,California. He serves as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 11.
In 2018,five of the eleven seats of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were on the ballot in the 2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections. A special election was held on June 5 for one of the five seats,while the other four were decided on the November 6 general election ballot. The elections followed the ranked-choice voting format.
Catherine Michele Stefani is an American attorney and politician from San Francisco. Stefani has served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2018,representing District 2,which includes the neighborhoods of Pacific Heights,Cow Hollow,the Marina District and Laurel Heights.
Vallie Brown is an American politician who was formerly on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,representing District 5.
Shamann Walton is an American politician. He has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2019,representing District 10,and served as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from January 8,2021 to January 8,2023. Walton earlier served on the San Francisco Board of Education and was its president immediately prior to his election as supervisor.
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.
Gordon Mar is an American politician from San Francisco. He was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2019 to 2023,representing District 4. He is the brother of former District 1 supervisor Eric Mar.
Dean E. Preston is an American attorney and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In November 2019,Preston won a special election to finish Mayor London Breed's term on the Board of Supervisors. He was re-elected in the November 2020 election.
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 Board of Education recall elections were held on February 15,2022. In a landslide election,over two-thirds of voters chose to remove three San Francisco Board of Education Commissioners—Alison Collins,Board President Gabriela Lopez,and Faauuga Moliga—from office. All three commissioners were replaced by appointees chosen by Mayor London Breed. The other four members of the school board were not eligible for recall at this time.
The 2022 San Francisco Board of Supervisors elections were held on November 8,2022. Five of the eleven seats on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were up for election. The election was conducted with ranked-choice voting.
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.
