San Francisco mayoral election, 2019

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San Francisco mayoral election, 2019

  2018
(special)
November 5, 2019 (2019-11-05)2023 

Incumbent Mayor

London Breed
Nonpartisan


An election for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco will be held on November 5, 2019. London Breed, the incumbent mayor, will be eligible to run for a first full term in office.

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Background

London Breed was elected Mayor of San Francisco in a 2018 special election to serve until 2020, filling the unexpired term of Ed Lee, who was elected in 2011 and 2015, and died in office on December 12, 2017. Breed confirmed that she intends to run for re-election to a first full term in office in 2019. [1]

The election will be run using instant runoff voting; it will be the fifth decided by the preference voting adopted by a referendum in 2002. [2]

Candidates

The filing deadline is 5 p.m. on June 11, 2019. [3]

Declared

Potential

Withdrawn

Declined

References

  1. 1 2 Fracassa, Dominic (11 July 2018). "London Breed has short term as SF mayor to prove herself for re-election". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. Berman, Russell (June 12, 2018). "San Francisco Still Doesn't Know Who Its Mayor Will Be". The Atlantic . Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  3. "Calendar for the November 5, 2019, Municipal Election". City and County of San Francisco Department of Elections. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  4. "London Breed poised to become SF's next mayor". ABC7 News. June 13, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Welcome to the City and County of San Francisco Public Portal for Campaign Finance, Lobbyist and Campaign Consultant Disclosure". San Francisco Ethics Commission . Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Sabatini, Joshua (September 7, 2017). "21-year-old tech entrepreneur running for SF mayor". San Francisco Examiner . Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  7. Knight, Heather (June 6, 2018). "Voters tune out rather than turn out for tame San Francisco mayor's race". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  8. Eskenazi, Joe; Mark, Julian (June 13, 2018). "London Breed will be your next mayor, as Mark Leno concedes". Mission Local . Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  9. Lucas, Scott (June 14, 2018). "Mark Farrell Made the Most of His Whirlwind Tenure as Mayor. Is He Eyeing a 2019 Run?". San Francisco (magazine) . Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  10. Matier, Phil; Ross, Andy (July 8, 2018). "Farrell calls for Breed to have clear field in next year's mayor race". SF Chronicle. Retrieved July 18, 2018.