Talk:2018 San Francisco mayoral special election

Political identification of candidates

I think it might make sense to list the political party identification with the candidates in the infobox and the results tables. Contemporary reporting in multiple different publications makes mention of party identification of the candidates and it would be useful to include that information in the article (e.g. [1], [2], [3], [4]). While putting "non-partisan" next to every candidate is officially correct per the California constitution, it doesn't convey any additional information about the individual candidates. My recommendation would be to put some explanatory text in the article that party identification is non-official but that most major candidates identify with a party, and party preference is listed where it is known. mcd51 (talk) 21:07, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

I disagree. As you note, and as noted in the lead, this election is nonpartisan. Ballots and election result web pages do not list a party. If someone wants to see party affiliation, they can click on the link of the candidate's page. The lead specifies that the candidates identify as Democrats. I don't see a need to make any changes in how this is handled. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Note that the San Francisco mayoral election, 2015 page does list party affiliations, in contrast. However, that page does not cite sources for those affiliations, and some of them are disputable. Really, which page is worse? For the curious, of the 8 candidates on the ballot this time, Zhou had no party affiliation, Greenberg had a Republican affiliation, and the other 6 were all Democrats. BTW, I think it's about time to update the numbers in the results, because they've apparently stopped changing upstream. 157.131.199.92 (talk) 00:47, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

That page is wrong, and I can fix it. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:42, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Seriously, you might have that backwards. Check out 2011, 2007, 2003, 1999, 1995, 1991, 1987, 1975, and 1971 for reference. 157.131.199.92 (talk) 22:43, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Number of candidates in infobox

Would it make sense to include Jane Kim in the infobox? There doesn't seem to be a general standard for a threshold that would merit inclusion in the infobox, especially with instant runoff voting, so it seems worth discussing.

Right now, San Francisco mayoral election, 2015 is showing four candidates in the infobox despite the fact that Mayor Lee won in the first round with none of the other candidates surpassing 15% of the vote. In this race, Kim got more than double the number of first round votes that the second place candidate got in 2015, and nearly the same number of first round votes as Mark Leno. Or because of IRV, do we treat the final round of elimination as a de facto general election and only include the candidates from that round? mcd51 (talk) 14:16, 20 June 2018 (UTC)