Roughly 355,500 LA County Ballots Still Need to be Counted from Tuesday’s Election

An estimated 355,500 ballots from Tuesday’s primary election in Los Angeles County still remain to be tallied, the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office announced late Wednesday afternoon.

The ballots include 345,000 vote-by-mail ballots, 10,000 conditional registration ballots and 500 provisional ballots. The county will also continue to accept ballots received in the mail through March 12, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday’s election day.

The RR/CC updated election returns Wednesday afternoon, adding 105,717 ballots to the overall tally. A total of 1,016,574 ballots have now been counted, equating to a voter turnout of 17.89%.

Updated vote tallies will be released every weekday through March 19, after which updates will be released on Fridays and Tuesdays until March 29.