We have officially certified the results for the November 5, 2024, Consolidated General Election. 🗳️ ✅ For this election, voter turnout was nearly 79% with 412,231 of San Francisco's 522,265 voters participating in the election. Visit to see summary and detailed election results reports of votes cast in San Francisco.

The next results report will be released when the Department certifies the election on Tuesday, December 3, at 4pm.

The next preliminary results report will be issued on Tuesday, November 19, at 4pm.

Today's preliminary results report includes 6,923 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots counted since the previous results report issued yesterday. The Department must still process and count approximately 9,600 ballots, including 1,100 vote-by-mail ballots and 8,500 provisional ballots cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center. The next preliminary results report will be issued on Saturday, November 16, at 4pm.

Provisional ballots cannot be placed into the ballot scanning machines at polling places because these ballots are issued to voters that are either not yet registered, or, voters that went to a polling place other than their assigned polling place. The information on the provisional ballot envelope must first be verified (and the voter's eligibility confirmed) before the envelope can be opened and the ballot can counted.

This is inaccurate. To be counted, the signature on the ballot return envelope must match with the signature(s) in the voter's registration record. If the signature(s) do not compare, the ballot is challenged, and the voter is notified (by mail, email, and telephone) and given an opportunity to correct the issue. Only after the voter takes action, can the envelope be opened, and the ballot inside be scanned and counted.

@CommonSenseiSF @Gregster56 @DanielLurie For detailed information on why an accurate and complete vote count takes time, visit our website:

Today's preliminary results report includes 6,106 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots counted since the previous results report issued yesterday. The Department must still process and count approximately 15,800 ballots, including 1,400 vote-by-mail ballots and 14,400 provisional ballots cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center. The next preliminary results report will be issued on Friday, November 15, at 4pm.

@CommonSenseiSF @Gregster56 @DanielLurie California law requires us to accept vote-by-mail ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day and received no later than November 12. Ballots continued to arrive after Election Day.

The next preliminary results report will be issued on Thursday, November 14, at 4pm.

UPDATE: The Department of Elections has released updated preliminary election results. Visit