Leno Concession Expected, London Breed on Track to Be Next S.F. Mayor

[Kirblar]

This is quite the comeback story- Breed was behind on election day but managed to pull ahead via mail-in and absentee ballots. Also, Ranked Choice voting is very good. (It's opposed by conservatives because vote-splintering is an asymmetric problem that mostly affects the left half of the political spectrum and they benefit from FPTP as a result.)

https://www.kqed.org/news/11674589/...ed-london-breed-on-track-to-be-next-s-f-mayor

Former state Sen. Mark Leno is expected to concede the extremely close San Francisco mayoral election at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. It would take a vote counting miracle for Leno to overcome the growing lead of San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed.

As of the last vote update on Tuesday afternoon, Leno trailed Breed by 1,861 votes under the city's ranked-choice voting system, with at least 8,000 ballots left to count.

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At the end of counting on election night, Breed held a nearly 10 percentage point advantage over Leno in first-place votes. But under the ranked-choice system — which reallocates second- and third-place votes from other candidates to the top two finishers — Leno actually finished the night up by just over 1,000 votes.

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It would prove to be the high-water mark for Leno, who saw his lead shrink day-by-day as tens of thousands of additional ballots were counted until Saturday, when Breed regained the lead. She continued to grow that margin to nearly 2,000 votes as of Tuesday afternoon, leading to Leno's expected concession on Wednesday.

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[Deleted member 4552]

London Breed is such a bizarre name, I had to read the other thread twice or 3 times to parse it.

Nice to see the use of a PR style system, to get a fair vote!

Is that just in SF or in any other places in the US?

 

[Deleted member 2533]

"At the end of counting on election night, Breed held a nearly 10 percentage point advantage over Leno in first-place votes. But under the ranked-choice system — which reallocates second- and third-place votes from other candidates to the top two finishers — Leno actually finished the night up by just over 1,000 votes."

Wait, so Breed would have won by ten points in the FPTP system?

 

[Xe4]

Shows why ranked voting is oh so important. Not that it doesn't have problems either but it's significantly better than FPTP voting.

 

[Kirblar]

"At the end of counting on election night, Breed held a nearly 10 percentage point advantage over Leno in first-place votes. But under the ranked-choice system — which reallocates second- and third-place votes from other candidates to the top two finishers — Leno actually finished the night up by just over 1,000 votes."

Wait, so Breed would have won by ten points in the FPTP system?

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Yes. She still won, but it was a much closer margin.

London Breed is such a bizarre name, I had to read the other thread twice or 3 times to parse it.

Nice to see the use of a PR style system, to get a fair vote!

Is that just in SF or in any other places in the US?

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Maine has it but the GOP Governor is refusing to implement it and it's gonna take the courts to force him to. (Same liberal/left vote-splitting that happened in Ontario w/ Rob Ford recently allowed Le Page to win years back in Maine.)

 

[moblin]

London Breed is such a bizarre name, I had to read the other thread twice or 3 times to parse it.

Nice to see the use of a PR style system, to get a fair vote!

Is that just in SF or in any other places in the US?

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A few cities have it; both Minneapolis and St. Paul have RCV.

 

[NinjaScooter]

Proceed wirh caution, London. I wouldn't trust a Leno to just step aside.

 

[Deleted member 22490]

London Breed is such a bizarre name, I had to read the other thread twice or 3 times to parse it.

Nice to see the use of a PR style system, to get a fair vote!

Is that just in SF or in any other places in the US?

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A few cities have it; both Minneapolis and St. Paul have RCV.

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Maine, too. Every state that is controlled by Dems should have it.

 

[Linkura]

Proceed wirh caution, London. I wouldn't trust a Leno to just step aside.

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Yup.

I guess people still mad about Conan.

 

[Angry Grimace]

London Breed sounds like the name of a Film Noir private investigator

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

Proceed wirh caution, London. I wouldn't trust a Leno to just step aside.

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[Landy828]

Took me a second to wrap my head around the title of this thread.

(now to actually read contents)

 

[Spenny]

From the title I thought a motorcycle gang was becoming the mayor of S.F.

 

[Finale Fireworker]

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