Department of Elections
City and County of San Francisco
John Arntz, Director
For Immediate Release
SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – Today, the Department of Elections issued the 11th preliminary election results reports of votes cast in the November 5, 2024, Consolidated General Election.
Today’s preliminary results report includes 1,679 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots counted since the previous results report issued yesterday, November 12.
Overall, since Wednesday, November 6, the Department has reported results from more than 155,000 ballots, which represents the processing of nearly 620,000 cards.
The Department must still process and count approximately 19,500 ballots. This estimate includes:
Vote-by-mail ballots: 4,700
Provisional ballots (cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center): 14,800
The estimated number of unprocessed ballots now includes nearly 3,000 ballots recently reviewed and approved for processing. The additional ballots include approximately 600 faxed vote-by-mail ballots from overseas voters, 650 San Francisco vote-by-mail ballots received from other counties’ elections offices, 1,400 vote-by-mail ballots received during the past week from the U.S.P.S. and postmarked on or before Election Day, and 300 conditional voter registration ballots cast in City Hall.
Department personnel will process and count ballots until 5 p.m. tonight. On Thursday, November 14, ballot processing will occur from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ballot processing is open to public observation in-person and via livestream at sfelections.org/observe.
The Department will next release preliminary results reports and an estimate of the number of remaining ballots on Thursday, November 14, 4 p.m., which will be posted at www.sfelections.gov/results.
When the Department issues results reports, Director John Arntz will be available to respond to questions from members of the public and the media outside of Room 48 in City Hall.
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Department of Elections
City and County of San Francisco
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
City Hall, Room 48
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-4375
sfelections.gov