Election Name: | 1983 San Francisco mayoral election |
Country: | San Francisco |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1983 San Francisco mayoral recall election |
Previous Year: | 1983 (recall) |
Next Election: | 1987 San Francisco mayoral election |
Next Year: | 1987 |
Election Date: | November 8, 1983 |
Candidate1: | Dianne Feinstein |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 117,489 |
Percentage1: | 80.10% |
Candidate2: | Cesar Ascarrunz |
Party2: | Nonpartisan candidate |
Popular Vote2: | 10,713 |
Percentage2: | 7.30% |
Image3: | Gloria La Riva (3x4a).jpg |
Candidate3: | Gloria La Riva |
Party3: | Workers World Party |
Popular Vote3: | 7,644 |
Percentage3: | 5.21% |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Dianne Feinstein |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Dianne Feinstein |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1983 mayoral election was held to elect the mayor of San Francisco. Incumbent Dianne Feinstein, who had previously been subjected to a failed recall election on April 26 (winning with an 83-percent-favorable vote), was re-elected to her second and final term as mayor. Feinstein, winning with 80.10%, defeated Cesar Ascarrunz, Gloria E. La Riva, Pat Wright, Brian Lantz, and Carrie Drake.
Feinstein's strong victory in the recall election months earlier was seen as helping to ward off strong challengers to her reelection in November.[1]