David Chiu With Board of Education Member Jane Kim At David Chiu Election Night Party At Broadway Studios In North Beach On November 4, 2008.
Preliminary Election Results (11/20/08)
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
The election was held on November 4, 2008. In general, it takes the Department of Elections two weeks or more to process all absentee and provisional ballots and write-in votes.
DAVID CHIU 10,046 37.84%
JOSEPH ALIOTO, JR. 6,140 23.13%
DENISE MCCARTHY 3,101 11.68%
CLAUDINE CHENG 2,462 9.27%
MIKE DENUNZIO 1,307 4.92%
LYNN JEFFERSON 1,210 4.56%
TONY GANTNER 1,159 4.37%
WILMA PANG 923 3.48%
MARK QUESSEY 199 0.75%
The final outcome may not be known for several days, however, because of San Francisco’s ranked-choice voting system, which ensures a candidate with more than 50 percent of the vote wins without a runoff.
The winner will depend on who voters picked as their second and third choices. Several rounds of ballot counting are necessary before elections officials can declare a winner.