# San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 6 Compare records and positions simply between Matt Dorsey or Alex Behrend for San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 6 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on San Francisco's 11-member Board of Supervisors. They vote on city-county laws, the budget, and land use. - Jurisdiction: County - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/sf-supervisor-6 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 21, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 94 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Matt Dorsey** — Incumbent - **Alex Behrend** A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Matt Dorsey faces one challenger, Alex Behrend, on the ranked-choice ballot for the district covering the Tenderloin, SoMa, Mid-Market, Civic Center, Mission Bay, South Beach, Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island (per the district's official page). Dorsey is seeking re-election; Behrend has registered a candidate committee but no public campaign is documented in press coverage. 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. The term is four years, with a two-term limit. On paper a contested race; in practice, close to a referendum on the incumbent. One candidate holds the seat and a public record; the other has yet to surface a platform. The useful reading here is Dorsey's actual record — a sitting supervisor's votes are public — plus whatever campaign the challenger mounts between now and November. ## Matt Dorsey The sitting supervisor for District 6, seeking re-election (per the Examiner). His campaign runs on making San Francisco "a recovery first city" — unified drug programs and sobriety incentives — along with police staffing and pro-housing positions for Treasure Island, Central SoMa, Mission Bay and downtown (per his campaign site). **Strengths:** Incumbency with a public legislative record, and the field's only articulated platform — recovery policy, police staffing, housing. **Trade-offs:** His signature recovery-first agenda is singular enough that voters who disagree with it have no documented alternative in this race to rank instead. **Keep in mind:** An effectively unchallenged incumbent is still accountable — through the ballot's skip option, constituents, and the press — more than through this opponent. ## Alex Behrend Qualified for the ballot on June 9 (per the city's candidate list), with a registered committee, "Alex Behrend for All - Supervisor 2026" (per the Ethics Commission's index). No press coverage, platform, or public campaign is documented as of late August. **Strengths:** None documented from official sources or press coverage beyond a registered committee. **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 - **Matt Dorsey** — $84,569 raised (Small donors: $1,531; Individuals: $80,038; PACs & committees: $2,500; Businesses & other orgs: $500) Alex Behrend has a registered committee but no financial disclosure on file with the SF Ethics Commission yet. 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 2026-09-21. ## Review notes - Reelect Matt Dorsey 2026 may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [SF Department of Elections — Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election](https://www.sf.gov/candidates-november-3-2026-general-election) 2. [San Francisco Examiner — 2026 Board of Supervisors race coverage](https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/sf-board-of-supervisors-2026-election-candidates/article_e0b5bd6d-0063-4de8-9707-0bd31ba0315a.html) 3. [SF.gov — District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, official page](https://www.sf.gov/district-6-supervisor-matt-dorsey) 4. [Reelect Matt Dorsey 2026 — campaign site](https://www.mattdorsey.org/) 5. [SF Ethics Commission — Candidate committees, November 3, 2026 election](https://campaign.sfethics.org/elections/2026-11-03/) 6. [SF Ethics Commission — campaign-finance dashboard and public-financing dataset](https://campaign.sfethics.org/elections/2026-11-03/) ## The rest of the ballot San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 6 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 6 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/sf-supervisor-6 (sources last retrieved September 21, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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