Haven’t voted yet? Voting centers close at 8 p.m. Get in line by then so you can cast your ballot.
While Tuesday is the end of the primary cycle for voters, it kicks off a months-long counting campaign run by LA County’s Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office. We’ll be posting Long Beach results at LBPost.com. Or you can see countywide updates here, and you can watch a livestream of the vote counting process here.
If your mail-in ballot was already received by the registrar’s office (You can check the status of your ballot here), it’s likely already been counted and will be part of the results posted shortly after polls close between 8:30 and 8:45 p.m. Tuesday. Between 8:45 and 9 p.m., the office will begin releasing results from ballots cast in person at voting centers across the county. Updates are expected throughout the night.
After Election Day, election officials will continue counting ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received within seven days, as well as provisional ballots cast by voters who registered at the polls. Twelve updates to the overall vote count will be posted between 4 and 5 p.m. daily until June 26, when the office certifies the election results. Those results are then sent to the California Secretary of State’s office, which has 38 days after the election to certify them.
Some media outlets may project winners based on calculations of outstanding ballots before official results are certified by the county and state. But at the county and city level, that could still take a while — unlike a presidential election, there’s no one at a big red and blue map with teams of data scientists analyzing the early returns.
Wait, we have to vote again in November?
In many races, this June primary is just a dress rehearsal for the big show in November, when two final candidates will face off to earn your vote. Candidates who receive more than 50% of the vote in this June primary spare themselves from participating in a run-off in November.