2012 San Diego mayoral election

2012 San Diego mayoral election

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Nominee Bob Filner Carl DeMaio
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 245,092 221,870
Percentage 52.5% 47.5%

Results by city council district
Filner:      60–70%
DeMaio:      50–60%      60–70%

Mayor before election

Jerry Sanders
Republican

Elected Mayor

Bob Filner
Democratic

The 2012 San Diego mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent mayor Jerry Sanders was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election.

Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan, though some candidates do receive funding and support from various political parties. The non-partisan primary was held Tuesday, June 5, 2012. As no candidate received a majority of primary votes to be declared elected outright,[1] the top two finishers, San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio and Congressman Bob Filner, advanced to the November general election.[2] Filner was elected mayor with a majority of the votes in the November election.

The top two candidates received official support from their respective parties in the primaries and the general election; DeMaio was endorsed by the California Republican Party and Filner was endorsed by the California Democratic Party.

  1. ^ "How to Run for Office". The City of San Diego-Office of the City Clerk. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference runoff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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