The Department of Elections Releases Preliminary Results Report #5 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, Wednesday, November 4, 2026 – Today, the Department of Elections issued the fifth preliminary election results reports of votes cast in the November 3, 2026, Consolidated General Election.

Today’s preliminary results report includes 21,288 vote-by-mail ballots counted since the last results report issued on Election Night. Today’s preliminary results report includes votes from over 85,000 ballot cards since each voter received four-card ballots.

The Department must still process and count approximately 135,400 ballots. This estimate includes:

Vote-by-mail ballots: 125,400

Provisional ballots (cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center): 10,000

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

The Department will process ballots continuously today and through Thursday (November 5) evening. Ballot processing is open to public observation in-person and via livestream at sfelections.gov/observe.

In addition to vote-by-mail ballots and provisional ballots received on Election Day, the Department will also need to process and count any vote-by-mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received no later than Tuesday, November 10.

The Department will issue the next preliminary results reports tomorrow (Thursday, November 5) at 4 p.m. 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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