How the Haight Voted in March 2020

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How the Haight Voted in March 2020

By Calvin Welch, HANC Board Member

Turnout in the March Democratic Presidential primary was off the hook, with a whopping overall neighborhood turnout of 72%, with 70% of the voters casting ballots in the North Panhandle precincts, 71% turnout in the progressive voting Flatland precincts and a whopping 75% turnout in the Hill precincts. The turnout vastly exceeded the 2016 Primary vote in which 59% of the voters in the Haight Ashbury cast ballots, with 58% turnout in the North Panhandle, 61% in the Flats and 59% in the Hill precincts. (Charts for voter turnout, Presidential vote, and Props D and E turnout are at the end of this article).

Bernie Sanders came in first in the neighborhood, winning 13 of the 17 precincts. Elizabeth Warren trailed Sanders by 400 votes, picking up only three precincts. Biden ran a distant third, trailing Sanders by some 1,100 votes and picking up a single neighborhood precinct. Surprisingly weak was Buttigieg, who picked up a mere 274 votes in Harvey Milk’s old neighborhood (yes, Milk lived here for a hot minute before he moved to the Castro), finishing far behind Bloomberg.

HANC made two recommendations on the local ballot urging Yes votes on Proposition D and Proposition E . Prop D proposed a new tax on vacant store fronts and dedicated the taxes thus raised to assisting small businesses. The dedicated use of new tax funds triggered a 2/3rd vote requirement for D. It exceeded that requirement handily, getting 80% of the vote in the neighborhood. Prop. E was a citizen initiative ordinance that linked further high-rise commercial office building approvals to the City building affordable housing at a yearly rate of some 2,200 units. The amount of office space allowed in any one year, already capped at no more than 950,000 square feet a year in the 1986 Proposition M (also a citizen initiative), would be reduced by the percentage of affordable housing not built that year. Prop E won in all but two precincts in the neighborhood, getting 60^ of the Haight Ashbury vote.

Turnout

North Pan	Reg.	Voted	%
7101	147	108	73%
7517	868	629	72%
7518	926	671	72%
7519	715	456	64%
7521	779	545	70
Total	3,435	2,409	70%
Flats
7533	970	688	71%
7534	903	637	71%
7535	745	525	70%
7536	833	582	70%
7546	953	697	73%
7547	981	698	71%
7548	1,051	729	69%
Total	6,426	4,556	71%
Hills
7551	723	537	74%
7552	685	476	69%
7555	872	675	77%
7556&57	966	750	78%
Total	3,246	2,438	75%

Total H-A	13,107	9,403	72%
Total D5	52,900	34,744	66%
Total SF	503,899	305,148	61%
CA	20,660,465	9,043,329	43%

HAIGHT ASHBURY MARCH 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTE

North Pan	Sanders	Biden	Warren	Bloomberg	Buttigieg
7101	24	14	39	12	5
7517	182	134	172	48	12
7518	216	115	199	26	14
7519	145	76	135	21	13
7521	191	110	139	34	21
Total	758	449	684	141	65
Flats
7533	290	99	162	29	16
7534	249	87	180	41	11
7535	165	113	146	20	12
7536	195	117	157	32	21
7546	222	158	175	42	15
7547	260	101	185	37	25
7548	239	130	198	53	26
Total	1,620	805	1.203	254	126
Hills
7551	123	112	148	36	17
7552	127	104	113	43	19
7555	155	178	172	67	19
7556&57	149	193	198	80	28
Total	554	587	631	216	83


Total H-A	2,932	1,841	2,518	611	274
Total D5	10,403	6,716	8,375	2,540	1,148
Total SF	78,206	57,162	55,098	27,475	10,251

HAIGHT ASHBURY PROP D AND E VOTE

North Pan	Prop D*	Prop E
7101	Y 84%	Y 55%
7517	Y 81%	Y 64%
7518	Y 81%	Y 61%
7519	Y 82%	Y 65%
7521	Y 83%	Y 62%
Total	Y 82%	Y 61%
Flats
7533	Y 82%	Y 68%
7534	Y84%	Y 65%
7535	Y 83%	Y 68%
7536	Y 82%	Y 61%
7546	Y 79%	Y 61%
7547	Y 87%	Y 70%
7548	Y 83%	Y 61%
Total	Y 83%	Y 65%
Hills
7551	Y 77%	Y 57%
7552	Y 76%	Y 54%
7555	Y 75%	Y 54%
7556&57	Y 74%	N 51%
Total	Y 76%	Y 54%

Total H-A	Y 80%	Y 60%
Total D5	Y 79%	Y 61%
Total SF	Y 70%	Y 56%

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