by Wallace White
Democratic San Francisco Mayor London Breed lost her reelection race to philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, according to multiple reports.
Breed, who has served as the city’s mayor since 2018, was defeated by independent candidate Lurie in the first mayoral election to utilize ranked-choice voting, according to multiple sources. This will mark the first time Lurie has served in public office.
As of Friday morning, Breed holds 43.8 percent of the vote while Lurie leads with 56.2 percent, and 100 percent of precincts reporting, according to the unofficial count.
Ranked-choice voting in the city made Breed’s path to victory harder than usual, as a third of likely voters expressed their intention to rank Breed as their lowest choice, according to a February poll. Before Breed and Lurie faced off in the final round, 13 previous rounds whittled away the number of qualifying candidates.
Breed had faced heavy criticism during her tenure over her handling of the homelessness crisis, such as her championing of reductions in homeless tents just weeks after bussing the city’s homeless out. In 2024, the homelessness population increased by 7 percent from 2022 to 2024, with some districts seeing jumps as high as 89 percent over those two years, according to city homelessness data.
Drug overdoses exploded after Breed came into office, with the rate of drug overdoses rising to double the national average in 2023 after jumping in 2018, according to The New York Times in January.
Breed also had connections to Chinese Communist Party officials, as she was discovered to have visited the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), according to reporting from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Lurie was the founder and CEO of Tipping Point Community, a nonprofit aimed at fighting homelessness in the Bay Area, according to the organization’s website. During his campaign, he emphasized how Tipping Point provided affordable housing for cheaper than the city, according to ABC 7 news in October.
Lurie has also said enticing people to come back to the city along with businesses was a “top priority,” according to ABC 7. He also stressed the importance of tackling the city’s drug epidemic.
“You don’t come to San Francisco to deal drugs, you don’t come here to do drugs and you don’t come here to sleep on our streets,” Lurie told ABC 7.
Breed’s office did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. Lurie could not be reached for comment.
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Wallace White is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Image “Daniel Lurie” by Daniel Lurie.
