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2020 San Diego mayoral election

The 2020 San Diego mayoral election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the mayor of San Diego. Incumbent Kevin Faulconer was ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits.

2020 San Diego mayoral election
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Candidate Todd Gloria Barbara Bry
Popular vote 346,662 272,887
Percentage 56.0% 44.0%
Mayor before election

Kevin Faulconer

 Elected Mayor

Todd Gloria

The officially non-partisan primary election was held on March 3, 2020. The top two finishers, California State Assembly member and former acting mayor Todd Gloria and San Diego City Council president pro tem Barbara Bry advanced to the general election. This guaranteed that a Democrat would be elected mayor of San Diego for only the third time since 1971.[a] Gloria was then elected mayor in the November 3 election, making him the first Native American and Filipino-American mayor elected in a US city of over a million people, as well as the city's first mayor of color and the city's first openly gay mayor.[1]

Candidates

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Note: Municipal elections in California are officially nonpartisan. The parties below identify which party label each candidate would have run under if given the option.

Qualified

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Declined

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Campaign

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The campaign for the mayor's office kicked off in early January 2019, when San Diego City Council president pro tem Barbara Bry and California State Assemblymember Todd Gloria officially announced their candidacies.[18] They were joined in the race later that month by Tasha Williamson, a community activist who works with families who have lost members from police violence.[20] In November 2019, with less than 100 days to go before the primary, city council member Scott Sherman became the first major Republican to file papers for the mayoral race.[6]

One of the issues distinguishing the candidates from each other was housing policy. Local activist attorney Cory Briggs announced in January 2019 that he would run for mayor based on opposition to the loosening of development restrictions proposed by incumbent mayor Kevin Faulconer in his State of the City speech. However, Briggs dropped out of the race by May 2019.[21] In a June 2019 campaign email, Bry came out in favor of strong local control over land use and against statewide legislation to preempt local governments' ability to restrict new development. Gloria favored statewide efforts to increase housing supply, aligning himself with the pro-housing development "Yes In My Back Yard" (YIMBY) movement.[22] Sherman emphasized market-based solutions to housing upon his entry into the race in late 2019.[23]

Another major issue was climate. Gloria emphasized his role in the establishment of the San Diego Climate Action Plan, while Bry called for the plan to be expanded and to have better metrics.[24][25] Williamson spoke about environmental justice while Sherman attributed pollution to unhoused people.[25]

In August 2019, Gloria was accused of collecting funds for his 2020 re-election campaign to the State Assembly before filing his intent to run with the state in violation of state law.[26][27] Gloria claimed this was a technical oversight and filed the relevant paperwork the next day.[28] In November 2019, Gloria settled the case with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, paying a $200 fine.[29]

Endorsements

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Barbara Bry

Officeholders

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Organizations

Individuals

  • Father Joe Carroll[30]
  • Peter Cooper, arts patron and LGBT activist[30]
  • Ann Dynes, environmental advocate[30]
  • Robert Dynes, former Chancellor of the UCSD; former President of the University of California (UC) system[30]
  • Sunday Gover, 2018 candidate for California's 77th State Assembly district[35]
  • Abdur-Rahim Hameed, President and CEO at National Black Contractors Association[30]
  • Marc Johnson, University Heights resident, community leader[30]
  • Geneviéve Jones-Wright, 2018 candidate for San Diego County District Attorney[35]
  • Rita Lim-Wilby, community business owner, social advocate[30]
  • Dr. Alan Mobley, Director of Center for Transformative Justice; Executive Director of SDSU Project Rebound[30]
  • Gentry Patrick, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology and Creator and Faculty Director of the PATHS Scholar Program, UC San Diego[30]
  • Lynn Schenk, former congresswoman[30]
  • Pam Slater-Price, former county supervisor[30]
  • Richard Ybarra, San Diego Community Leader and son-in-law of Cesar Chavez[30]
Todd Gloria

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Scott Sherman

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Primary election

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The primary election was held on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. In the initial results, Gloria led with more than 40% of the vote and was projected to advance to the general election. Sherman narrowly led Bry by a little over 3,000 votes for the second spot in the general election.[60] By the second day of counting, Bry had reduced Sherman's margin for the second spot by 30 percent to 2,140.[61] Bry continued to gain on Sherman as more votes were counted, and on March 16 her votes surpassed his.[62] The final results released in early April confirmed that Gloria would face Bry in the runoff election. This guaranteed that a Democrat would be elected mayor of San Diego for only the third time since 1971.[63]

Results

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2020 San Diego mayoral primary election results[64]
Candidate Votes %
Todd Gloria 147,654 41.5%
Barbara Bry 81,541 22.9%
Scott Sherman 80,352 22.6%
Tasha Williamson 25,629 7.2%
Gita Appelbaum Singh 12,716 3.6%
Rich Riel 8,067 2.3%
Jarvis Gandy (write-in) 3 0.0%
Total votes 355,994 100%

General election

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Polling

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Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[b] 		Margin
of error 		Barbara
Bry 		Todd
Gloria 		Other Undecided
FM3 Research/Voice of San Diego[65] Oct. 8–22, 2020 580 (LV) ± 4.1% 32% 36% – 32%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV/San Diego Union-Tribune[66] Oct. 1–5, 2020 547 (LV) ± 5.3% 38% 39% – 24%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV/San Diego Union-Tribune[67] Aug. 28–31, 2020 517 (LV) ± 5.3% 37% 34% – 29%
Strategies 360/Todd Gloria[68][A] Jul. 15–19, 2020 406 (LV) ± 4.9% 26% 41% – 33%
GS Strategy Group/San Diego Lincoln Club[69] Jun. 22–26, 2020 400 (LV) ± 4.9% 31% 34% 11%[c] 24%

Results

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Todd Gloria wins 2020 San Diego mayoral election after Barbara Bry concedes.
Candidate Votes %
Todd Gloria 346,662 55.95%
Barbara Bry 272,887 44.05%
Total votes 619,549 100.00%

Notes

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  1. ^ Frank Curran's term expired in 1971.
  2. ^ Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  3. ^ "Neither" with 11%
  1. ^ Poll sponsored by Todd Gloria's campaign

References

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