Price per vote in D5 election

Dividing the total votes by the amount of money they spent, we can see how much the D5 candidates spent for each vote in last November's supervisorial election:

 

Emmet Gilman: $90.80 per vote

Patrick Ciocca: $64.19

Jim Siegel: $45.56

*Brett Wheeler: $27.69

Nick Waugh: $25.67

Dan Kalb: $25.42

Lisa Feldstein: $25,41

*Bill Barnes: $24.85

Joe Blue: $22.33

Andrew Sullivan: $21,48

Bob Haaland: $16.24

Tys Sniffen: $13.32

Phoenix Streets: $12.47

*Michael O'Connor: $9.09

Susan King: $9.89

Ross Mirkarimi: $8.39

 

*Bill Barnes will eventually rank higher on the cost per vote list, since his incomplete paperwork at the Ethics Commission shows that he spent $41,218 as of Oct. 16, 2004. Ditto for Michael O'Connor, who raised $8,822 by Sept. 30, but his Oct. 16 filing is so screwed up it's hard to tell how much he raised to that point, and he hasn't filed a Dec. 31 form yet. Brett Wheeler hasn't filed a Dec. 31 form, either, and his cost per vote will go up when he does, though it's unlikely that he'll overtake Jim Siegel in the rankings, unless he spent an awful lot in the final two months.

 

Francis Somsel hasn't completed anything but his original paperwork, so there's no way of knowing what he spent. I spent around $100 on business cards with my website address, which makes my cost per vote around 30 cents. H. Brown didn't even try to raise any money for his campaign. He may have come out ahead of the game, since he was essentially homeless during the campaign and was sleeping on other candidates' couches---including mine---at one point. And Vivian Wilder presumably didn't raise any money and didn't do any campaigning, either.