Polling locations across Los Angeles County will be closing in about 10 minutes but voters and campaigns eager to learn the initial results of early voting will have to wait for a little longer, according to LA County elections officials.
The first results, which will include all vote-by-mail ballots received by Monday, are expected to be released around 20 to 30 minutes after the polls close at 8 p.m.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk tweeted that the next batch of results will be released around 8:45 p.m. and will include the in-person votes that were recorded during the 10-day early voting period that ended Monday.
After that, incremental updates will be provided once polling locations close and workers haves transported marked ballots to the sorting location in Downey where they will be processed.
Turnout in Long Beach is currently at 17% citywide. But the total has grown since polls opened Tuesday morning, and a final tally is yet to be determined.
Ballots received before Election Day could account for more than half of the total. Experts projected that total voter turnout would likely fall between 20% and 30%, far lower than the historic 75% of voters that cast ballot in the last Presidential election in November 2020.