San Francisco voters recall progressive D.A. Boudin. Crime and homelessness at issue

SAN FRANCISCO — Progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who became a lightning rod for controversies over crime and homelessness in San Francisco, will not finish his first term as the city’s top prosecutor.

Some ballots remained to be counted late Tuesday. But among the more than 100,000 votes tallied in the recall election, more than 61% of voters wanted to oust Boudin from office, an insurmountable margin.

The bitter, expensive recall became a referendum on some of San Francisco’s most painfully visible social problems, including homelessness, property crime and drug addiction.

The recall campaign painted Boudin as a soft-on-crime prosecutor who doesn’t care about public safety. And it tied his criminal reform policies to a wave of high-profile crimes, including a fatal hit-and-run involving a man on