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County · Statewide General Election

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 6

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

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 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. A four-year term, 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

$84,569raised
  • Small donors$1,531100%

Alex Behrend has a registered committee but no financial disclosure summarized on the Ethics Commission's dashboard yet.

Public matching funds are city money earned through small-donor support; totals here combine reported contributions with approved public funds. Figures are each committee's latest FPPC filings as summarized by the SF Ethics Commission's campaign-finance dashboard and the city's public-financing dataset, retrieved 2026-08-21.

Source review: Very strong (94/100) · 6 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: Reelect Matt Dorsey 2026 may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

Last updated August 21, 2026.