Ranked Choice Voting and the Asian American Vote

With San Francisco’s mayoral election coming up in November, how well do you understand ranked choice voting?   This instant-runoff system is intended help to save the expense of having a traditional runoff election. Learn how the system works and how your vote will be counted.

The Asian American population is expected to have an influential role in electing the next San Franciscan mayor. For the first time, six candidates are of Asian descent, so will ranked choice voting patterns in the Asian community result in the first elected San Francisco Asian American mayor?

Chinese American Voters Education Committee
4442 Geary Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94118
415.397.8133                                                                                     

Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and Common Good
University San Francisco       
415.422.5662
usfca.edu/centers/mccarthy