By Kim Geiger
With just 17 percent of registers voters participating in this year’s election for mayor, sheriff, district attorney and a host of ballot measures, results came in as expected. Incumbent mayor Gavin Newsom maintained his post with a landslide victory over the 11 challengers, none of whom were able to garner even 10 percent of the vote.
And Newsom won yet another victory with the defeat of Prop. E, which would have mandated that the mayor appear monthly before the Board of Supervisors to answer questions in a forum modeled after the British parliament’s question time between lawmakers and the prime minister. The only measure on the ballot that had no financial impact on the city was rejected by a slim majority of voters — 51.6 percent.
With 100 percent of votes tallied, the unofficial results according to the S.F. Department of Elections:
Gavin Newsom: 67.75%
Quintin Mecke: 8.33%
Harold Hoogasian: 6.53%
Wilma Pang: 5.71%
Ahimsa Poter Sumchai: 2.96%
John Rinaldi: 2.31%
Josh Wolf: 1.64%
Lonnie Holmes: 1.44%
Grasshopper Alec Kaplan: 1.36%
H. Brown: .86%
George Davis: .60%
Michael Powers: .50%
Ballot Measures:
A — Yes 55.24%
B — Yes 71.06%
C — Yes 68.39%
D — Yes 74.31%
E — No 51.64%
F — Yes 51.46%
G — Yes 55.36%
H — No 66.62%
I — Yes 58.81%
J — Yes 62.33%
K — Yes 61.68%
