2019 San Francisco District Attorney Election
The 2019 San Francisco District Attorney election was held on November 5, 2019, to elect the next San Francisco District Attorney's Office, District Attorney of San Francisco. The election, which was held alongside 2019 San Francisco mayoral election, the 2019 mayoral election in which incumbent Mayor of San Francisco, mayor London Breed won her first full term, was won by public defender Chesa Boudin. The incumbent district attorney, George Gascón, announced in October 2018 that he would not seek a third term. Gascón then abruptly resigned in October 2019, and Breed appointed Suzy Loftus to replace him on an interim basis. Four candidates, Chesa Boudin, Suzy Loftus, Nancy Tung, and Leif Dautch, ran in the nonpartisan election, with Boudin and Loftus seen as the front-runners. San Francisco elections are conducted using Instant-runoff voting, ranked-choice voting: voters are permitted to rank the candidates in order of preference, and should no candidate garner a majority of ...
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Instant-runoff Voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a type of ranked preferential voting method. It uses a majority voting rule in single-winner elections where there are more than two candidates. It is commonly referred to as ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the United States (although there are other forms of ranked voting), preferential voting in Australia, where it has seen the widest adoption; in the United Kingdom, it is generally called alternative vote (AV), whereas in some other countries it is referred to as the single transferable vote, which usually means only its multi-winner variant. All these names are often used inconsistently. Voters in IRV elections rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are initially counted for each voter's top choice. If a candidate has more than half of the first-choice votes, that candidate wins. If not, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and the voters who selected the defeated candidate as a first choice then have their vot ...
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