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LA and OC certify November election results
People voting at the Central Library in Huntington Beach.
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The Orange County Registrar of Voters and the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk officially certified the results of the November election on Tuesday. Voter turnout was 76% for O.C. and a little more than 66% for L.A.
How turnout compares: The percentage of eligible O.C. voters who cast ballots was down quite a bit from the 87% of voters who turned out for the 2020 election. It was a similar situation in L.A. County, with turnout down from nearly 76% in the 2020 election.
What stood out about the results: O.C. voters elected more Republicans than Democrats to the state legislature. In the end, the politically purple county will send five Democrats and just one Republican to Congress.
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What stood out about voting: Most O.C. voters mailed in their ballots — 77% — but a larger number than in recent years cast their ballots in person at a vote center. The registrar also saw the largest number yet of provisional ballots cast in an election — more than 40,000. Meanwhile, nearly three quarters of L.A. County voters did it by mail, which was less than 2020, but more than double than in pre-COVID pandemic 2016.
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