With casual musings and informed whispers regarding future San Francisco elections on the rise, your Usual Suspects team has determined that it is time to create a home for all of this gossip. Below, we’ve listed the major upcoming local elections scheduled through 2011 and have dropped a few names (in alpha order, mind you) of rumored and declared candidates for your consideration. Know something we don’t? Send us an email and tell us who’s mulling over a run for office and who is most definitely not. We’re happy to link to official candidate websites as well.

November 2, 2010

San Francisco Board of Supervisors

District 2

Declared: Kat Anderson, Barbara Ann Berwick, Mark Farrell, Vilma Guinto Peoro, Janet Reilly, Abraham Simmons

Was Rumored or Declared, But Isn’t: Michela Alioto-Pier, Joe Alioto-Veronese, Gwyneth Borden, Michael Breyer, Meagan Levitan, Robert McCullough, Allen Zigman

District 2 Race News: Ex 082410, Chron 080810, Ex 080310, Ex 072910, Ex 072910, KCBS 072310, Chron 072310, Ex 072310, Chron 020310, Ex 020210, Ex 010710, NewFillmore 010410

District 4

Declared: Carmen Chu

District 4 Race News: Chron 080810, Ex 080310, Chron 020310, Ex 020210, Ex 010710

District 6

Declared: Matthew Ashe, Harold Brown, Dean Clark, George Davis, Matthew Drake, Glendon “Anna Conda” Hyde, James Keys, Jane Kim, Jim Meko, Nate Payne, Robert Raeburn, Theresa Sparks, George Vazhappally, Debra Walker, Elaine Zamora

Was Rumored or Declared, But Isn’t: Terrance Alan, Jeff Anderson, Brian Basinger, Rob Black, Renato Cazares, Gary Converse, Bryan Costales, Christopher Dahl, Colin Gallagher, Jeff Gustavson, Rodney Hauge, Elihu Hernandez, Paul Hogarth, Robert Jordan, Kathleen Mallory, John Markham, Mark Schwartz, Chris Thomas, David Villa-Lobos, John Weber, Michael Yaki

District 6 Race News: Chron 080810, NYT 080810, Ex 080310, BAR 072910, BAR 040810, Chron 020310, Ex 020210, Ex 010710, Chron Opinion 110709

District 8

Declared: William Hemenger, Rafael Mandelman, Rebecca Prozan, Scott Wiener

Was Rumored or Declared, But Isn’t: James Boeger, Rick Galbreath, Tom Radulovich, Alex Randolph, Starchild, Laura Spanjian

District 8 Race News: Chron 080810, Ex 080310, BAR 072910, BAR 072210, BAR 071510, BAR 070810, BAR 050610, BAR 040110, BAR 0311110, BAR 031110, Bay Times 020410, Chron 020310, Ex 020210, Ex 010710, BAR 102909, BAR 102909, BAR 081309, BAR 070909, BAR 061809, Ex 051409, Ex 051309

District 10

Declared: Isaac Bowers, James Calloway, Malia Cohen, Edward Donaldson, Teresa Duque, Kristine Enea, Marie Franklin, Rodney Hampton Jr., Chris Jackson, Ellsworth “Ell” Jennison, Nyese Joshua, Tony Kelly, DeWitt Lacy, Geoffrea Morris, Steve Moss, Jacqueline Norman, Ashley Rhodes, Diane Wesley Smith, Eric Smith, Lynette Sweet, Marlene Tran, Stephen Weber

Was Rumored or Declared, But Isn’t: Cedric Akbar, Bill Barnes, Espanola Jackson, Liz Jackson-Simpson, Angelo King, Arienne Landry, NTanya Lee, Carole Migden, La Vaughan Moore, Mohammed Nuru, Nina Pickerrell, Linda Richardson, Dwayne Robinson

District 10 Race News: Chron 090110, Chron 080810, Ex 080310, BAR 072910, BAR 040110, SFBG 022410, PotreroView 021010, Chron 020310, Ex 020210, Ex 010710

Public Defender

Declared: Jeff Adachi

Assessor-Recorder

Declared: James Pan, Phil Ting

BART Director District 8

Declared: James Fang, Elbert Hill, Brian Larkin

Was Rumored or Declared, But Isn’t: Jeffrey Scott King

School Board

Declared: Bill Barnes, Margaret Brodkin, Tom Chan, Asale “Sala” Chandler, Winifred Dajani, Natasha Hoehn, Omar Khalif, Kim-Shree Maufus, Mike Kim, Hydra Mendoza, Emily Murase, Ruth Parker, Miguel Rivera, Jamie Wolfe

Community College Board

Declared: Anita Grier, John Rizzo, Lawrence Wong

Was Rumored or Declared, But Isn’t: Michael Goldstein, Hope Johnson

November 8, 2011

Mayor

Declared: Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, Antonio Mims, Joanna Rees

Rumored: Jeff Adachi, Michela Alioto-Pier, Mark Leno, Ross Mirkarimi, Leland Yee

Mayor’s Race News: Chron 090110, Bay Citizen 082710, Ex 082710, Chron 020310, Ex 020210, NBC11 092509, Chron 092409, CBS5 092409, BAR 092409, Ex 092309

District Attorney

Declared: David Onek

Rumored: Elliot Beckelman, Jim Hammer, Paul Henderson

Sheriff

Declared: Michael Hennessey