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...debate. Mitterrand could settle for a draw. In the first round of presidential balloting on April 24, he emerged with 34% of the vote, putting him, as expected, far ahead of Chirac, who won 19.9%. That made the incumbent the odds-on favorite in the May 8 second-round runoff...
...runoff election in June 1986, Waldheim won with 53.6 percent of the vote...
...Francisco, where densely packed office towers have overshadowed the city's natural skyline, voters in November rejected a proposal to build a baseball stadium downtown. In last month's mayoral runoff election, they spoke even more forcefully by overwhelmingly rejecting Establishment Candidate John Molinari in favor of onetime Neighborhood Activist Art Agnos. Meanwhile, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, along with dozens of other California cities, have passed the most severe growth restrictions in the state's history...
Early on the day Arthur Christ Agnos was elected the 37th mayor of San Francisco, a violent storm unexpectedly swept across the city, dumping hail, downing power lines, flooding streets. For a brief time chaos reigned. But shortly after the polls closed in last week's runoff election, it was apparent that a bigger gale had been spawned by Agnos himself. The candidate, once a little-known state assemblyman, blew away John Molinari, president of San Francisco's board of supervisors, with an overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield...
Some polls indicate that each of the three major candidates has a solid core of 20% support, while 10% could go to minor candidates and about 30% remain undecided. Given the size of the field and the fact that there will be no runoff, the winner may not need much more than 30% to 35% of the ballot...