The Department of Elections Releases Preliminary Results Report #11 and Update on the Number of Remaining Ballots to Count for the November 3, 2026, Consolidated General Election

Department of Elections
City and County of San Francisco
John Arntz, Director

For Immediate Release

SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday, November 10, 2026 – Today, the Department of Elections issued the eleventh preliminary election results reports of votes cast in the November 3, 2026, Consolidated General Election.

Today’s preliminary results report includes 3,564 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots counted since the previous report issued on Monday, November 9.

The Department must still process and count approximately 900 ballots. This estimate includes:

Vote-by-mail ballots: 450

Provisional ballots (cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center): 450

Estimates of remaining ballots to count and all election results reports are posted at sfelections.gov/results.

Any remaining ballots are those received in other counties and forwarded to the Department, ballots identified for processing during the canvass of election materials, those needing manual review and processing, or requiring voters’ action to verify signatures.

The Department will process ballots until 5 p.m. today. The Department will close Wednesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day, and will not process ballots or release preliminary results reports.

The Department will next release preliminary results reports on Tuesday, November 17, at 4 p.m.

Ballot processing is open to public observation in-person and via livestream at sfelections.gov/observe.

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 upon the release of preliminary results reports.

To review statewide results, visit the California Secretary of State’s website at sos.ca.gov/elections.

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