How much did your vote cost in the S.F. November election?
No matter who you voted for in November, there’s one thing that everyone could agree on: This was a costly election. Campaigns and political groups spent more than $72 million on different races and the 15 local ballot measures, trying to work their magic on a total of 522,265 registered voters. But how has their money worked for them? For Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie, quite well. Lurie, a first-time candidate who was bolstered by $16.2 million including outside spending, won with 55 percent of the vote (182,303 votes). The cost: $156.14 for each first-choice vote. That makes him by far the politician who spent the most on a dollar-per-vote basis. His rivals had much smaller war chests and spent much less per vote: London Breed and her allies spent $58.86 per vote, Aaron Peskin $34.27, and Mark Farrell $85.03, making Farrell, who finished fourth, […]
