1975 San Francisco mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1975 San Francisco mayoral election San Francisco presidential no 1971 San Francisco mayoral election 1971 1979 San Francisco mayoral election 1979 November 4, 1975December 9, 1975 First-round vote First-round percentage Second-round vote Second-round percentage File:George Moscone, 1975.jpg George Moscone Democratic Party (United States) 66,195 31.52% 101,528 51.09% John Barbagelata Edit Crop.jpg John J. Barbagelata Republican Party (United States) 40,540 19.31% 97,213 48.91% Dianne Feinstein, 1971 (cropped).jpg Dianne Feinstein Democratic Party (United States) 39,344 18.74% John A. Ertola 1970.jpg John A. Ertola Nonpartisan candidate 30,360 14.46% Milton Marks, 1975.jpg Milton Marks Republican Party (United States) 27,910 13.29% Mayor Joseph Alioto Democratic Party (United States) George Moscone Democratic Party (United States) The 1975 mayoral election was held to select the 37th mayor of San Francisco, and was held in two parts. In the November regular election, then-Speaker of the California State Assembly George Moscone placed first with conservative city supervisor John Barbagelata second and moderate supervisor Dianne Feinstein coming in third.Nolte, Carl, CITY HALL SLAYINGS: 25 Years Later, San Francisco Chronicle, November 26, 2003 Moscone and Barbagelata thus both advanced to the mandated runoff election in December where Moscone narrowly defeated the conservative supervisor by 4,400 votes, a margin of less than 1%. For the rest of his life, Barbagelata maintained that the People's Temple religious cult, led by Jim Jones, committed election fraud by bussing in out-of-town church members to double and triple vote for Moscone under the registrations of dead voters.Cothran, George. Barbagelata's Return? https://web.archive.org/web/20141207094330/http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-11-18/calendar/cothran/ 2014-12-07 , San Francisco Weekly, November 18, 1998. Proposition B With Moscone in office there was a move to redefine how the city's governing Board of Supervisors should be selected as well as paid.Chester Hartman, City for Sale. The Transformation of San Francisco. University of California Press, 1984, pp. 227-234. Neighborhood activists at that time sought to reduce the influence of downtown businesses and thus the method for selecting supervisors. Their aim was to create a new system of neighborhood-based supervisors. Many of the existing supervisors did not even live in the city itself. The activists founded the SFDE (San Franciscans for District Elections) and managed to get placed the initiative - so-called Proposition T - on a local ballot in November 1976. The ballot was successful but a group of existing supervisors, including Barbagelata, then met to plan a repeal election. However, Barbagelata then took the repeal further by getting put forward a more radical ballot, Proposition B, which called for the recalling of the mayor [Moscone] and a number of other high elected officials in the city. The scheme was referred to as the "fire everybody petition". According to Chester Hartman, in his 1984 book City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco, many viewed the measure as Barbagelata's attempt to get back at Moscone, who, he felt had "stolen" the 1975 mayoral election from him. In Moscone's own words: "There's only one goal in his [Barbagelata's] mind and that's to dump me. I just know that his plan has nothing to do with reform, and if John [Barbagelata] tries to sell that to anybody it's a loser." On August 2, 1977, Barbagelata's Proposition B lost 64% to 36%. Results First round San Francisco mayoral election, 1975 (first round)November 4, 1975RaceID=130503 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=130503 Our Campaigns June 3, 2019 Democratic Party (United States) George Moscone 66,195 31.52 Republican Party (United States) John J. Barbagelata 40,540 19.31 Democratic Party (United States) Dianne Feinstein 39,344 18.74 Nonpartisan candidate John A. Ertola 30,360 14.46 Republican Party (United States) Milton Marks 27,910 13.29 Nonpartisan candidate John C. Diamante 2,218 1.06 Nonpartisan candidate Roland Sheppard 1,080 0.51 Nonpartisan candidate Ray Cunningham 1,061 0.51 Nonpartisan candidate Josie-Lee Kuhlman 477 0.23 Nonpartisan candidate Donald Donaldson 433 0.21 Nonpartisan candidate Nicholas F. Benton 362 0.17 Runoff San Francisco mayoral election, 1975 (runoff)December 9, 1975RaceID=130504 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=130504 Our Campaigns June 3, 2019 Democratic Party (United States) George Moscone 101,528 51.09 Republican Party (United States) John J. Barbagelata 97,213 48.91 References Category:1975 California elections Category:Mayoral elections in San Francisco San Francisco Category:1975 in San Francisco Category:Dianne Feinstein