DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5

1 candidate will be elected with 29,698 ballots cast.


Round 1

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Dean Preston  Chart color  12,012  (40.4%)   
Bilal Mahmood  Chart color  11,840  (39.9%)   
Scotty Jacobs  Chart color  2,796  (9.4%)   
Autumn Hope Looijen  Chart color  2,606  (8.8%)   
Allen Jones  Chart color  444  (1.5%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Allen Jones) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5

1 candidate will be elected with 29,698 ballots cast.


Round 2

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Dean Preston  Chart color  12,084  (40.9%)   
Bilal Mahmood  Chart color  11,896  (40.2%)   
Scotty Jacobs  Chart color  2,889  (9.8%)   
Autumn Hope Looijen  Chart color  2,691  (9.1%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Autumn Hope Looijen) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5

1 candidate will be elected with 29,698 ballots cast.


Round 3

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Dean Preston  Chart color  12,439  (43.0%)   
Bilal Mahmood  Chart color  12,760  (44.1%)   
Scotty Jacobs  Chart color  3,707  (12.8%)  Defeated
Pie chart

The last-place candidate (Scotty Jacobs) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

Go to the next round.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5

1 candidate will be elected with 29,698 ballots cast.


Round 4

Legend
Candidate Votes Status
Dean Preston  Chart color  13,077  (47.0%)  Defeated
Bilal Mahmood  Chart color  14,741  (53.0%)  Elected
Pie chart

Bilal Mahmood has enough votes to guarantee victory (50%) and is declared a winner.

In the end, 49.6% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 40.4% if only the first-round votes were used.

Also, view the Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
















 

DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5

1 candidate will be elected with 29,698 ballots cast.


Ballot Depth

This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidate.

Rank Fraction of votes for winner
1st    80.3% 
2nd    14.4% 
3rd    4.0% 
4th    1.3% 
Pie chart