San Francisco Mayor London Breed is fighting a self-funded philanthropist for reelection while in nearby Oakland, Mayor Sheng ...

The polls are closed in the Bay Area and California and rolls are starting to roll in for local and state races.

In San Francisco’s system of ranked voting, voters are allowed to rank up to 10 candidates in order of preference. In each round of tabulation, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is ...

San Francisco’s mayoral race was still undecided on Wednesday evening, but Daniel Lurie, who spent $8 million of his own money to finance his campaign, is leading against incumbent mayor London Breed.

Levi Strauss heir and homelessness expert Daniel Lurie appears on course to defeat incumbent London Breed to become mayor of San Francisco, suggesting the mayor’s recent efforts to reduce homelessness ...

San Francisco’s mayoral race is still too close to call, but political outsider Daniel Lurie took an early lead last night.

“Real estate should feel very, very good about these results,” said Jay Cheng, executive director of moderate political group ...

Notably, San Francisco has ranked-choice voting, meaning voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots and the candidate who wins the most first-preference votes is the winner. If no one gets ...

San Francisco election workers were busy processing votes Wednesday that will determine who will be the next mayor of the city.

Oakland voters recalled the mayor and county prosecutor, while Los Angeles voters fired their progressive district attorney. Across the country, several major cities elected new mayors.