London Breed: Elected by a minority
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| Mark Leno and Jane Kim |
Regarding your June 14 editorial (“The city has spoken”) on what you called the “impressive breadth” of London Breed’s support: Let’s look a bit deeper into the numbers: Breed, the moderate, got 36.6 percent of first-place votes. Is this “impressive breadth”?
What percent of first-place votes did the two progressives, Mark Leno and Jane Kim, get? Together they got 46.8 percent of all first-place votes. Hardly an impressive “mandate” for Breed. More voters wanted a progressive mayor.
What percent of first-place votes did the two progressives, Mark Leno and Jane Kim, get? Together they got 46.8 percent of all first-place votes. Hardly an impressive “mandate” for Breed. More voters wanted a progressive mayor.
This shows the flaws in ranked-choice voting, especially in races for citywide offices, such as the mayor.
To elect a true representative of the majority for citywide offices, we should return to a top-two-runoff system in races when the leading candidate in the first round gets less than 50 plus one of all votes.
To elect a true representative of the majority for citywide offices, we should return to a top-two-runoff system in races when the leading candidate in the first round gets less than 50 plus one of all votes.
Peter Yedidia
San Francisco
Labels: City Government, Jane Kim, London Breed, Mark Leno, Ranked Choice Voting, SF Chronicle
posted by Rob Anderson @ 11:28 AM
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2 Comments:
Heck, well even at district elections, a candidate can win by as little as 1,500 votes then they think they have a mandate not only for the district but the city as a whole. Let's go back to city wide elections for all elected offices. I don't see anything positive over the last 20 years coming to D6 from district elections...things have only gotten worse. Plus our district supervisor(s) doesn't even listen to our concerns!!
Agreed on district elections. The "progressive" supervisors elected since 2000 have done more damage to San Francisco than anything since the 1906 earthquake and fire.
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