2020 San Diego mayoral election

The 2020 San Diego mayoral election will be held 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
March 3 and November 3, 2020
 
Candidate Todd Gloria Barbara Bry
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Incumbent Mayor

Kevin Faulconer
Republican
Elections in California

The officially non-partisan primary election was held on March 3, 2020. The top two finishers, California State Assemblymember 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.

The runoff between Gloria and Bry will take place on November 3, 2020.

Candidates

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

Declined

Campaign

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.[17] 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.[19] 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.[5]

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.[20] 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.[21] Sherman emphasized market-based solutions to housing upon his entry into the race in late 2019.[22]

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.[23][24] Gloria claimed this was a technical oversight and filed the relevant paperwork the next day.[25] In November 2019, Gloria settled the case with the California Fair Political Practices Commission, paying a $200 fine.[26]

Endorsements
Barbara Bry
Officeholders
Other individuals
Todd Gloria
Officeholders
Newspapers
  • San Diego Union-Tribune[42]
Organizations
Scott Sherman
Officeholders
Organizations
  • San Diego County Republican Party[52]
  • Lincoln Club of San Diego County[52]

Primary election

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.[53] By the second day of counting, Bry had reduced Sherman's margin for the second spot by 30 percent to 2,140.[54] Bry continued to gain on Sherman as more votes were counted, and on March 16 her votes surpassed his.[55] 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.[56]

Polling
Poll source Date(s)
administered		 Sample
size		 Margin
of error		 Barbara
Bry		 Todd
Gloria		 Rich
Riel		 Scott
Sherman		 Gita
Applebaum
Singh		 Tasha
Williamson		 Undecided
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV/San Diego Union-Tribune Feb. 6–8, 2020 527 ± 5.3% 13% 29% 2% 18% 2% 4% 32%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV/San Diego Union-Tribune Jan. 16–19, 2020 518 ± 5.2% 13% 29% 2% 18% 2% 5% 32%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV/San Diego Union-Tribune Sept. 3–5, 2019 550 ± 4.9% 15% 31% – – – 8% 46%

Results
2020 San Diego mayoral primary election results[57]
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 Applebaum 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

Results
2020 San Diego mayoral general election results
Candidate Votes % ±
Barbara Bry N/A
Todd Gloria N/A
Total votes ' 100% N/A
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