California Primary Election Results 2024: Live Maps

[PufPuf23]

The San Fransisco Chronicle has live charts and maps of the March 5 California Primary election.

I do not like the "jungle" primary system.

Live election results for California's once-in-a-generation Senate race, the presidential primary and more

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/california-primary-election-results/

[Dem2theMax]

1. Thank you!

What a great resource.

[Unwind Your Mind]

2. There's something I don't understand

We have two Senate seats

Schiff and Garvey are top two on both, how does that work?

[Retrograde]

3. One seat, two different terms

Sen. Feinstein had been elected to a term that ended Jan. 3, 2025. But she died while in office late last year. By state law, the governor may appoint a replacement to fill that seat until the next general election*, which he did in December 2023 by appointing Laphonsa Butler. Butler did not file to run for that seat, so by the same law she will only serve until the next general election.

So there were two contests in this primary, and there will be two in November. The first is to fill the remaining months of what was Feinstein's term (November - January 3): hardly seems worth it, but that's the law. The second is for the full senate term, which starts Jan. 3, 2025. This was explained in the voters' guide the state sends out, and at least in Santa Clara county, was also explained on the ballot itself.

California went through the same process in 2022, when Sen. Padilla had to run for both the seat he was appointed to when Kamala Harris resigned to become vice-president, and for a full term in his own right.

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4. A better site for state-wide results

straight from the Secretary of State: https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/. More stats than you probably want, updated regularly.

[PufPuf23]

5. Thank you. Finding election returns frustrating.

The SF Chronicle site does not appear to be updating.

Evidently, the mail in ballots are slower to count.

That is likely a good sign because more Democrats than GOP use mail in ballots.

Looks like won't know final results as fast as I would prefer.

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6. California takes its time counting votes

since ballots have 7 days after the election to make it to the county offices (assuming they're postmarked in time) and the state tries to process all provisional ballots it takes time - especially in a state with 15-20 million voters. My congressional district is one of the too-close-too-call ones.

My favorite part of the site is the Unprocessed Ballots page (not up yet for this election) where you can see which counties are on the ball and which are lollygagging