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# Could an Independent Candidate Win Big City Mayor’s Race?
- URL: https://ivn.us/independent-candidate-could-win-big-city-mayors-race-2024-09-25/
- Published: 2024-09-25T23:17:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-26T00:34:09.000Z
- Description: A lifelong nonpartisan candidate is making a serious run for mayor of San Diego against the incumbent Democrat in a left-leaning city.
- Author: Shawn Griffiths
- Tags: Campaigns, SD 2024 Election, San Diego, Independent Candidates

A lifelong nonpartisan candidate is making a serious run for mayor of San Diego against the incumbent Democrat in a left-leaning city.

Retired US Marine Lt. Colonel and now San Diego Police Department officer [Larry Turner](https://larryturnerformayor.com/?ref=ivn.us) is in a tough general election campaign against incumbent [Mayor Todd Gloria](https://toddgloria.com/?ref=ivn.us), a career politician who previously served 8 years on the San Diego City Council and 4 years in the California State Assembly before being elected mayor in 2020.

A recent [poll by San Diego’s ABC affiliate](https://www.10news.com/americavotes/san-diego-mayoral-debate/poll-indicates-tight-race-for-san-diegos-mayoral-seat-37-support-gloria-33-voting-for-turner?ref=ivn.us) found the race for mayor of the 8th latest city in the US to be closer than many pundits expected, with Gloria at 34% and Turner at 33% and about 30% undecided between them.

Turner survived the primary election where Gloria only received 49.9% to Turner’s 23%. Three other candidates split the remainder of the votes.

The City of San Diego’s voter registration leans Democratic: 46.6% of the city’s nearly 800,000 voters are Democrats, but nonaffiliated voters make up 24.8% of registered voters, more than the 21.4% registered as Republicans.

The runoff election will be on November 5 but early mail-in ballots will be sent to voters beginning on October 8.

The winner of the election will take office in December