The mayor of the City and County of San Francisco is the head of the executive branch of the San Francisco city and county government. The officeholder has the duty to enforce city laws,and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,the legislative branch. The mayor serves a four-year term and is limited to two successive terms. Because of San Francisco's status as a consolidated city-county,the mayor also serves as the head of government of the county;both entities have been governed together by a combined set of governing bodies since 1856.
The government of the City and County of San Francisco utilizes the "strong mayor" form of mayoral/council government,composed of the Mayor,Board of Supervisors,several elected officers,and numerous other entities. It is the only consolidated city-county in California,and one of only thirteen charter counties of California. The fiscal year 2019–20 city and county budget was approximately $12.3 billion.
Sophie Maxwell is an American politician. She is a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,representing District 10.
Carmen Chu is an American politician serving as City Administrator of the City and County of San Francisco. She previously served as the city's assessor-recorder,where she was the only Asian-American assessor elected to serve among the 58 counties in the State of California. Prior to being elected assessor-recorder,Chu served as a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors,where she served two terms as the chair of the board's budget and finance committee,and was a board director of the Golden Gate Bridge,Highway and Transportation District. Before joining the board of supervisors,Chu served as deputy budget director in the mayor's office of public policy and finance. In July 2022,she was appointed to the Regents of the University of California by Governor Gavin Newsom.
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 November 2008 San Francisco general elections were held on November 4,2008 in San Francisco,California. The elections included seven seats to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,one seat to the San Francisco County Superior Court,and twenty-two San Francisco ballot measures.
John Avalos is an American politician. He served two terms as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2008 to 2016. Avalos represented District 11 in San Francisco,consisting of the Crocker-Amazon,Excelsior,Ingleside,Oceanview,and Outer Mission districts. Avalos was elected on November 4,2008 in the 2008 San Francisco election and took office on January 8,2009. He was re-elected in the 2012 San Francisco election with 94 percent of the vote,and termed out of office in January 2017.
Jane Jungyon 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.
Mark E. Farrell is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th Mayor of San Francisco from January 23 to July 11,2018. Before his appointment as mayor,he served on the Board of Supervisors for nearly two terms,representing District 2.
Rose Lan Pak was a political activist in San Francisco,California,noted for her influence on city politics and power in the Chinatown community. Pak served as a consultant for the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce and organizer of the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco. Although Pak never held an elective political office,she was known as an outspoken,controversial but well-connected "gatekeeper" figure who supported politicians by raising funds and connecting them with the city's growing Asian American community. Her political ties to the Chinese government attracted scrutiny.
Edwin Mah Lee was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017.
London Nicole Breed is an American politician who is the 45th and current mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. She was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
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.
The 2018 California State Treasurer general election was held on November 6,2018,to elect the State Treasurer of California. Incumbent Democratic Treasurer John Chiang did not run for re-election to a second term and instead ran unsuccessfully for governor.
The election for mayor of the City and County of San Francisco was held on November 5,2019. Incumbent Mayor London Breed,who had previously been elected in a special election to fill the unexpired term of the late Mayor Ed Lee,was reelected to a first full term in office. All local elections in California are nonpartisan.
Sandra Lee Fewer is an American politician who served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 1 during the years 2017-2021. It includes the neighborhoods of Inner Richmond,Central Richmond,Outer Richmond,Lone Mountain,Golden Gate Park,Lincoln Park,and University of San Francisco.
A special election was held for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on June 5,2018,to fill the remainder of the term of Ed Lee,who had died in office on December 12,2017. Upon Lee's death,London Breed,President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,became Acting Mayor of San Francisco,but a vote of six supervisors replaced Breed with Supervisor Mark Farrell. The mayoral election was held concurrently with the statewide direct primary election. In San Francisco,the election for the eighth district member of the board of supervisors was also on the ballot.
Mabel Teng is a former American elected official. She is a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and a former assessor-recorder of San Francisco. She is also a former immigration rights community activist in Chinatown,San Francisco. She became the executive director of Chinatown's Chinese Culture Center in 2009.
Thomas Kuo Shyang Hsieh was a Chinese-born American politician,architect,and vineyard owner. He was San Francisco's third supervisor of Asian ancestry when he was appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1986. He was the first Chinese American to be elected to a citywide office in San Francisco. He was re-elected twice and termed out of office in 1997.
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.
