2018 San Francisco mayoral special election
Ed Lee, who was appointed Mayor of San Francisco in 2011 following Gavin Newsom's election as Lieutenant Governor of California, elected to a full term in 2011, and reelected in 2015, died of cardiac arrest on December 12, 2017. London Breed, the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, became the city's acting mayor.
Jane Kim
Prior to her election to the Board of Supervisors, Kim served as member and then president of the San Francisco Board of Education. In 2016 she ran for the 11th California State Senate District, she came in first place in the primary but narrowly lost to Scott Wiener in a run-off election. She was a candidate for mayor in the 2018 San Francisco mayoral election, finishing third with 24.03% of the first-round vote.