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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.
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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