1.   Mayoral elections are usually unpredictable, highly dependent on the particular appeal of personalities and the ability to form coalitions.

2.   The Mayoral election is regarded as the litmus test for the integrity of the electoral process.

3.   And in a city that is overwhelmingly black and Democratic, the winner of the Democratic primary has always won the mayoral election.

4.   As a result, many Republican officials see his stature eroding among party regulars just a year before another mayoral election.

5.   As the strongest challenger, the PAN has won six mayoral elections, including those in the border towns of Agua Prieta and San Luis Rio Colorado.

6.   Berlusconi, whose Forza Italia party won a series of mayoral elections in May, is not acting like a fugitive in disgrace.

7.   Bernstein said she would be unable to provide the total number of votes cast in the mayoral election until all the paper ballots were counted.

8.   Besides, public works crews are working all over San Francisco as the mayoral election nears, and they work slowly enough to be called road sculptors.

9.   A handful of its members later won mayoral elections in former rebel strongholds.

10.   A visit I made there several years ago happened to coincide with a mayoral election.