| Election Name: | 2022 San Francisco District Attorney special election |
| Country: | San Francisco |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2022 San Francisco District Attorney recall election |
| Previous Year: | 2022 (recall) |
| Election Date: | November 8, 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2024 San Francisco District Attorney election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| 1Blank: | First round |
| 2Blank: | Maximum round |
| Image1: | Brooke Jenkins Portrait (cropped).jpg |
| Candidate1: | Brooke Jenkins |
| Color1: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data1: | 126,505 45.9% |
| 2Data1: | 142,412 53.7% |
| Candidate2: | John Hamasaki |
| Color2: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data2: | 102,612 37.2% |
| 2Data2: | 122,906 46.3% |
| Image3: | Joe Alioto Veronese at the 2022 San Francisco Pride Parade (cropped).jpg |
| Candidate3: | Joe Alioto Veronese |
| Color3: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data3: | 34,603 12.5% |
| 2Data3: | Eliminated |
| Map Size: | 230px |
| District Attorney | |
| Before Election: | Brooke Jenkins |
| After Election: | Brooke Jenkins |
The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney special election was held on November 8, 2022, following the successful recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. It was held concurrent with the 2022 statewide general elections.[1]
Following Boudin's removal from office, Mayor London Breed appointed Brooke Jenkins as the interim District Attorney on July 8, 2022.[2] After winning the special election, Jenkins will serve the remainder of the unexpired term until January 2025.[3] [4]
As of the filing deadline, these candidates were listed on the San Francisco Department of Elections webpage.[5]
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Margin of error | Sample size | Joe Alito Veronese | Maurice Chenier | John Hamaski | Brooke Jenkins | Undecided | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embold Research/San Francisco Standard | October 1–7, 2022 | ± 3.9% | 944 (RV) | 4% | <1% | 10% | 25% | 61% | ||
| <944 (LV) | 5% | <1% | 9% | 28% | 58% | |||||
| EMC Research | August 28 – September 1, 2022 | ± 4.9% | 400 (LV) | 15% | 5% | 26% | 49% | 6% |
| 2022 San Francisco District Attorney special election[12] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Brooke Jenkins (incumbent) | 126,505 | 45.85 | 130,215 | 47.64 | |||
| John Hamasaki | 102,612 | 37.19 | 105,770 | 38.70 | 122,906 | 46.32 | |
| Joe Alioto Veronese | 34,603 | 12.54 | 37,332 | 13.66 | colspan=2 align=center | ||
| Maurice Chenier | 12,211 | 4.43 | colspan=4 align=center | ||||
| Continuing ballots | 261,703 | 259,221 | 251,651 | ||||
| Blank ballots | 27,870 | 27,870 | 27,870 | ||||
| Exhausted ballots | 0 | 2,394 | 9,763 | ||||
| Overvotes | 1,224 | 1,312 | 1,513 | ||||