2012 San Diego mayoral election

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2012 San Diego mayoral election
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Nominee Bob Filner Carl DeMaio
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote245,092221,870
Percentage52.5%47.5%
San Diego mayoral election, 2012.svg
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.

Contents

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.

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Campaign

The mayoral race received national attention in March 2012 when The New York Times columnist David Brooks penned a column praising the moderate Nathan Fletcher and decrying the San Diego GOP's decision to back "orthodox conservative" Carl DeMaio over Fletcher for the post. [12] Brooks was criticized by Reason's Matt Welch, who pointed out that DeMaio is openly gay and described him as having libertarian leanings. [13] A few weeks after the local Republican party endorsed DeMaio, Fletcher announced he was leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent. [7]

In the primary election held June 5, DeMaio placed first with 31.4 percent of the vote, followed by Filner with 30.5 percent. [2] Trailing were Fletcher with 24.1 percent and Dumanis with 13.3 percent. As the top two vote-getters, DeMaio and Filner advanced to the November ballot. [2] Filner was then elected mayor with 52.5 percent of the votes in the November election. [14]

Primary election

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Carl
DeMaio		Bonnie
Dumanis		Bob
Filner		Nathan
Fletcher		OtherUndecided
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV May 28–30, 2012542± 4.3%31%11%28%23%3%4%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV May 11–13, 2012525± 4.4%31%13%21%21%6%8%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV April 9–12, 2012532± 4.3%28%13%20%26%4%10%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV January 30–February 3, 2012511± 4.4%25%14%24%13%11%13%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV September 23–27, 2011588± 4.1%25%16%25%10%9%16%

Results

San Diego Mayoral Primary election, 2012 [15] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Carl DeMaio 73,508 31.4
Democratic Bob Filner 73,216 30.5
Independent Nathan Fletcher 57,93924.1
Republican Bonnie Dumanis 31,92613.3
Nonpartisan Tobiah Pettus [16] 1,7090.7
Write-in 7520.3
Total votes241,050 100

General election

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Carl
DeMaio		Bob
Filner		Undecided
Pharos Research October 19–21, 2012708± 3.7%38.3%46.8%15.1%
SurveyUSA/10 News October 12–14, 2012601n/a40%47%13%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV September 21–24, 2012581± 4.1%38%50%12%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV August 20–23, 2012553± 4.3%41%47%12%
SurveyUSA/KGTV-TV June 6–11, 2012537± 4.3%43%46%11%

Results

San Diego Mayoral General election, 2012 [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Bob Filner 245,092 52.5
Republican Carl DeMaio 221,87047.5
Total votes466,962 100

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  7. 1 2 "Nathan Fletcher Announces He’s Leaving The Republican Party", KPBS, March 28, 2012
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  11. ↑ Gardner, Michael (June 28, 2011). "No Mayor Kehoe: State senator decides not to run". U-T San Diego . Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  12. ↑ Brooks, David. A Moderate Conservative Dilemma. The New York Times. 2012-03-29. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
  13. ↑ Welch, Matt. David Brooks and the Liberal Media Lament That a Gay-Baiting GOP "Moderate" Mayoral Candidate in California Can't Beat an "orthodox conservative." Who Is, uh, Gay. And Libertarian.. Reason.com. 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2012-04-10.
  14. 1 2 3 "Election History - Mayor of San Diego" (PDF). City of San Diego. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
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  16. ↑ "Tobiah L. Pettus". Smartvoter.org. League of Women Voters of California Education Fund. April 8, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
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