District 4 Joel Engardio has lost the recall election. He conceded the race shortly after 9 p.m. on Sept. 16.
As of 10:12 p.m., after a second batch of votes was counted, the recall was winning with 64.6 percent of the vote. Those votes cover 16,485 ballots, according to the Department of Elections, likely the majority of some 25,000 expected votes. The city will release another batch of results on Thursday.
Recall election results by precinct
Turnout
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- There was a strong correlation between District 4 voters in 2024 rejecting Joel Engardio’s Prop. K to close The Great Highway and in 2025 rejecting Engardio.
- The precincts that most strongly supported the Engardio recall in 2025 most strongly supported Engardio in his 2022 supervisor race.
Methodology
The results data comes from the San Francisco Department of Elections. These results are subject to change: More data will continue to be released in the coming days as more votes are counted.
For the special September election, the Department of Elections collected results in District 4 by “grouped precinct,” rather than individual precincts. That means the data for this election is not as granular as results from previous elections.
In order to accurately compare results with those from previous elections, we grouped old results from individual precincts using a list of consolidations provided by the Department of Elections.
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