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San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 2

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

This person holds your district's seat on San Francisco's 11-member Board of Supervisors: city-county laws, the budget, and land use.

Incumbent Stephen Sherrill and three challengers are on the ranked-choice ballot for the district covering the Marina, Pacific Heights, Cow Hollow and Presidio Heights. Sherrill, appointed in December 2024, won June's special election for the term's remaining months with 69.25% in the final ranked-choice round (per the city's certified results); November decides the full four-year term against a new field: community advocate Monthanus Ratanapakdee, city Republican Party chairman Nicholas Berg, and Guy McCoy.

The winner holds one of 11 seats on the Board of Supervisors, the city-county's legislature: it writes ordinances, approves the budget the mayor proposes, and decides the land-use questions that determine what gets built where. A four-year term, with a two-term limit.

June measured Sherrill against a well-funded challenge and he won decisively; that opponent is not in this field. November asks a different question: none of the three challengers has held city office, and two report no campaign committee at all (per the Ethics Commission's November index). The ranked-choice ballot lets you rank all four.

Stephen Sherrill

The sitting supervisor. A former director of the Mayor's Office of Innovation, he was appointed to the seat by Mayor London Breed in December 2024 (per the Examiner) and won June's special election with 69.25% in the final round (per the city's certified results).

Strengths

A fresh electoral mandate from June's special election, on top of executive-branch experience in the Mayor's Office of Innovation.

Trade-offs

A short elected record — appointed in late 2024, elected in June — so the full-term case rests on months of votes, not years.

Keep in mind

June's decisive win came against a different, well-funded opponent; this field is smaller and quieter, which makes November more a referendum on him than a contest of rivals.

Monthanus Ratanapakdee

A community advocate and San Franciscan of more than 30 years who entered public life after the 2021 killing of her father, Vicha — her campaign describes stepping forward after "a tragic act of violence." Her stated priorities are public safety, clean streets, small-business support, and family-centered governance (per her campaign site).

Strengths

Three decades in the city and a safety-first platform grounded in direct personal experience of its failures.

Trade-offs

No documented government service record; her platform is directional — four named priorities — rather than a set of specific proposals.

Keep in mind

Her campaign runs explicitly against "big money" and "party machine" politics (her site's words); judge whether grassroots independence reads as strength or isolation for a legislative seat.

Nicholas Berg

Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party (per the party's own site), running with a registered campaign committee (per the Ethics Commission's November index). Press coverage of the race documents little else about his campaign to date.

Strengths

Leads a citywide party organization — an organizing base and public profile the field's other challengers lack.

Trade-offs

No documented government service record; his public profile is party leadership rather than city government.

Keep in mind

A party chair on a formally nonpartisan ballot makes partisanship itself the question his candidacy asks of District 2.

Guy McCoy

Qualified for the ballot on June 3 (per the city's candidate list). No campaign committee appears in the Ethics Commission's November index, and press coverage of the race documents no background or platform for him as of late August.

Strengths

None documented from official sources or press coverage.

Trade-offs

With no documented campaign, there is nothing for a voter to evaluate beyond the ballot line itself.

Keep in mind

Sparse coverage is itself information; if this campaign becomes publicly visible, the weekly source refresh will pick it up.

Financial info

Stephen Sherrill

$202,618raised
  • Small donors$3,1852%
  • Individuals$197,43397%
  • PACs & committees$1,5001%
  • Businesses & other orgs$500<1%

Nicholas Berg reports $200 raised, with no category breakdown available yet.

Monthanus Ratanapakdee has no campaign committee on file with the SF Ethics Commission for this race.

Guy McCoy has no campaign committee on file with the SF Ethics Commission for this race.

Public matching funds are city money earned through small-donor support; totals combine reported contributions with approved public funds. Figures are CA Form 460 filings through 2026-06-30, per the SF Ethics Commission's e-filed transaction exports and campaign-finance dashboard, retrieved 2026-08-22.

June 2 special election — certified results

Stephen Sherrill69.25% · 15,761 votes
Lori Brooke30.75% · 7,000 votes

Final ranked-choice round. The special elected Sherrill to the seat's remaining months; November's full-term race has a different field.

Source review: Very strong (92/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Monthanus Ratanapakdee for District 2 and San Francisco Republican Party may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

Last updated August 21, 2026.