Suspicions confirmed: Tuesday's election had terrible voter turnout. How terrible? Including the ballots we're stil waiting to see counted, the total turnout will be around 40% of registered voters. Or: the lowest turnout ever for a contested mayoral race, the Appeal reports. more ›

6:26 p.m.: Polls will close at 8 p.m., which is when we'll crown Ed Lee the next mayor of San Francisco we'll find out the results. Until then, your SFist editor will make himself a vat of french onion soup (why not?) and mainline contraband Pseudoephedrine (we're a tad under the weather) before heading out to a couple of election night parties (hint: one will involve a former mayor and MC Hammer). We'll update sporadically throughout the night with the results. more ›

Our second Pieces candidate (!) John Avalos has a rabid fan base compared to the other mayoral contenders. The notably progressive supervisor represents District 11, which consists of Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, Ingleside, Oceanview, and the Outer Mission neighborhoods. more ›

Receiving his B.A. from the UC, Berkeley in 1981 and his J.D. from the UC Hastings in 1985, Jeff Adachi once acted as the president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area and the San Francisco Japanese American Citizen's League, as well as serving as a board member of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and the San Francisco Bar Association... more ›

Behold Bevan Dufty, your wittiest San Francisco mayoral candidate. The openly Pisces / former District 8 supervisor devoted more than 18 years of service to San Francisco, including eight years on the Board of Supervisors. Of Mr. Dufty's many accomplishments, the most pressing and remarkable has to be the fact that his godmother was Billie Holiday. Which, jealous. We sure are. Anyway, his Twentysomething answers are as follows: more ›

Serving his second term as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, David Chiu stunned many wonk insiders after snatching the coveted SF Chronicle mayoral endorsement. Chiu serves as Supervisor for District 3, which his home to North Beach, Chinatown, Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill, Polk Street, Nob Hill, Union Square, the Financial District, the Barbary Coast and Fisherman's Wharf. He earned his undergraduate degree, law degree, and master's degree in public policy from Harvard University. But wait, there's more... more ›

SFist takes its popular Twentysomething interviewing feature to your top (sane) San Francisco mayoral candidates. Everyone from Ed Lee to Joanna Rees to Bevan Dufty to David Chiu will get a chance. We promise. Kicking things off is Michela Alioto-Pier. She served on the Board of Supervisors representing District 2, encompassing the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods. Before that, Alioto-Pieer served as a member of the San Francisco Port Commission. more ›

Mayor Ed Lee and SF Neighbor Alliance, the bogus grassroots effort that pooped out the cringe-worthy Run, Ed, Run campaign, are under fire this week after witnesses revealed to The Chronicle that they had observed workers at a Chinatown voting station on Friday filling in absentee ballots for voters. The Chronicle reports: more ›

Remember that budget surplus? Remember when we were flush with cash and we decided to go on this spending binge and Chris Daly got into a fight with everyone because he wanted to spend the money his way and not everyone else's way? Well goodbye to all that because Gavin announced that we know have a whopping $229 million dollar deficit. more ›

Anyways, Sean saw this, failed to see any humor in it, and made his offer to be the money bags to everyone's favorite "hunky-hipster attorney". Again, we don't know if this is true or what the what is with the story. It could be a joke, a crazy rumor, or something Sean and Matt jokingly talked about while drinking some wine and discussing the finer points of Costas Gravas's L'Aveu. more ›

Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but we are wondering: what's the effect of this on our current issues of obsession in the current political scene? What about..... more ›