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Bilal Mahmood
2025 - Present
2029
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Bilal Mahmood is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California, representing District 5. He assumed office on January 8, 2025. His current term ends on January 8, 2029.
Mahmood ran for election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to represent District 5 in California. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Bilal Mahmood was born in California. He earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 2009 and a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge in 2010. Mahmood's career experience includes working as a small business owner, innovator, neuroscientist, and a policy analyst in the Obama Administration.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: City elections in San Francisco, California (2024)
General election
General election for San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Bilal Mahmood in round 4 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 29,698 |
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Mahmood in this election.
2022
See also: California state legislative special elections, 2022
General election
Special general election for California State Assembly District 17
Matt Haney defeated David Campos in the special general election for California State Assembly District 17 on April 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matt Haney (D) | 62.4 | 48,762 |
 | David Campos (D) | 37.6 | 29,422 | |
| Total votes: 78,184 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for California State Assembly District 17
Matt Haney and David Campos defeated Bilal Mahmood and Thea Selby in the special primary for California State Assembly District 17 on February 15, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Haney (D) | 36.4 | 34,174 |
| ✔ | | David Campos (D) | 35.7 | 33,448 |
 | Bilal Mahmood (D) | 22.3 | 20,895 | |
 | Thea Selby (D) | 5.6 | 5,261 | |
| Total votes: 93,778 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Bilal Mahmood completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mahmood's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Housing Through Compassion
- Public Education Through Investment
- Public Safety Through Accountability
We will do this by reforming our public schools to be pandemic proof, and building new systems to actually eliminate chronic homelessness. We will cut crime at its root by going after drug dealers and criminal cartels, while addressing anti-Asian violence. And we will create a new green economy by reforming our housing policy and subsidizing electrification of all vehicles and buildings.
Our biggest challenge is that the American dream of upward mobility is out of reach for most San Franciscans. We see and feel the realities of this every day: crises in our schools and homelessness, rising crime and anti-Asian violence, and existential threats of climate change.
Despite these harsh realities, I believe in San Francisco. But we need a new champion in the State Assembly to shift our current trajectory. One that reflects our values, brings an outcomes driven approach, and has the courage to act. I’m a Bay Area native and son of immigrants. I’ve worked across the public and private sectors - from the Obama administration to Silicon Valley. I’m a policy wonk who has worked on national policy solutions in the Obama administration. I’ve dedicated my career to investing in people and organizations that empower communities.
That's because these challenges are science, technology, and policy problems. We need state legislators who have experience across these disciplines to solve the challenges of today.
I've worked as a scientist at Stanford, an analyst in the Obama Administration, and an entrepreneur in the nonprofit and private sectors. I can bridge these disciplines to bring forth outcomes and evidence based solutions to address our most critical challenges.
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See also
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External links
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Candidate San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 5 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 4, 2022
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