# San Francisco Assessor-Recorder — San Francisco County Joaquin Torres is running uncontested for San Francisco Assessor-Recorder — San Francisco County. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person values taxable property for San Francisco's tax roll. This person also keeps the city's public records, from property deeds to marriage licenses. - Jurisdiction: San Francisco County - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/sf-assessor-recorder - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 21, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 94 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Joaquin Torres** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent Joaquín Torres was the sole candidate to qualify by the filing deadline and appears unopposed on the November 3 ballot — so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. San Francisco elects this office directly in the general election; there was no June primary contest for it. The Assessor-Recorder values every taxable property in San Francisco and keeps the city's public records, from property deeds to marriage licenses. Property assessment feeds nearly a third of the city's general fund (per the San Francisco Standard), so the office's work sets the base for much of what the city can spend. The seat carries a four-year term. With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what to expect and what to watch. An unopposed return means accountability for this office over the next four years will come from constituents and the press rather than from the ballot. The record below is what he has done with the seat so far. ## Joaquin Torres The sitting Assessor-Recorder, unopposed for re-election. Appointed to the seat in 2021, he won the February 2022 special election — in which he also ran unopposed — and then a full term. Before this office he directed the city's Office of Economic and Workforce Development from 2018, leading its pandemic-era support for businesses and workers, and served as president of the Housing Authority Commission, where his office credits him with overseeing rehabilitation of more than 3,400 public-housing units backed by $750 million in improvements (per his official city biography). **Strengths:** Five years running the office across an appointment, a special election and a full term, with prior citywide-department experience leading Economic and Workforce Development. **Trade-offs:** He reached the office by appointment rather than election, and both his first ballot — the February 2022 special — and this November's return drew no challenger. **Keep in mind:** State law requires this officeholder to be an appraiser certified by the state Board of Equalization (per the San Francisco Standard); with no opponent, scrutiny of the office between elections falls to that certification regime and the press. ## Financial info - **Joaquin Torres** — $51,200 raised (Small donors: $2,374; Individuals: $47,326; PACs & committees: $1,500) Public matching funds are city money earned through small-donor support; totals combine reported contributions with approved public funds. Figures are CA Form 460 filings through 2026-06-30, per the SF Ethics Commission's e-filed transaction exports and campaign-finance dashboard, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Sources 1. [SF Department of Elections — Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election](https://www.sf.gov/candidates-november-3-2026-general-election) 2. [SF.gov — Joaquín Torres, official profile](https://www.sf.gov/profile--joaquin-torres) 3. [The San Francisco Standard — What does the Assessor-Recorder actually do?](https://sfstandard.com/2022/02/14/220214-assessor-recorder-explained/) 4. [SF Ethics Commission — campaign-finance dashboard and public-financing dataset](https://campaign.sfethics.org/elections/2026-11-03/) ## The rest of the ballot San Francisco Assessor-Recorder — San Francisco County is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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