By Calvin Welch, HANC Board

We looked at how the Haight-Ashbury voted for  President,  Supervisor and  16  ballot measures HANC recommended to Haight-Ashbury voters.  We analyzed how each of the three sub-areas of the neighborhood voted and compared that to the rest of District 5 and the Citywide vote.

Since 2010 HANC has made recommendations on 75 state and local ballot measures to its members and Haight-Ashbury residents.  Of those 75 recommendations  Haight-Ashbury voters have agreed with 70 over the last decade, or 93% .  This year we made 16 recommendations, 9 local and 7 state. With COVID 19 forcing HANC to suspend its monthly meeting in which these measures were usually discussed, HANC board members dropped over 4,000 newsletters with the reasons for our our recommendations door to door  in the neighborhood.  Of the 16 recommendations, our neighbors agreed with 15 for a 94%  average.

 We are not saying that HANC is an election powerhouse, but what we are saying that it faithfully represents the neighborhood.    As the masthead of our newsletter says  and as the results of our recommendations show HANC is " the voice of, the Haight-Ashbury."

The full presentation can be downloaded from the HANC website, at https://www.hanc-sf.org/the-voice-and-docs/Meeting-Slides/How-the-Haight-Voted-November-2020/