The district represents Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Woods, Laguna Hills and Lake Forest. Dixon and Mancuso will be competing for the state Assembly seat in November. Fellow competitor Benjamin Yu pulled about 14% of the early votes cast Tuesday. On Wednesday night Dixon had 42.1% of the votes, still lagging behind Mancuso’s 43.8% of the votes - a margin of just 1.7%. Newport Beach Councilwoman Diane Dixon has closed the gap between her and candidate Judie Mancuso from Tuesday night’s early returns. The district represents Cerritos, Buena Park, Westminster, Garden Grove and Fountain Valley. Fellow competitor Long Pham now has 9.9% of the votes, making Steel and Chen the two competitors on the ballot in November. Tuesday night the two were neck and neck with just a 1% margin separating them. Steel currently has about 50% of the votes cast in Tuesday’s primary election, followed by Chen with 40.2% of the votes. Michelle Steel (R-Surfside) has overtaken Democrat candidate Jay Chen in the 45th Congressional District. The following are the results recorded as of press deadline Wednesday for some of the closer races followed by the Daily Pilot: 45th Congressional District Still, there are still a number of races that are still too close to call and races in some nonpartisan offices that may see a runoff this fall. In last year’s gubernatorial recall election, 62.9% of the county’s 1.8 million registered voters participated.Įlection experts said the low turnout may have been because of a lack of exciting races on the ballot this year in California compared to other parts of the country like in Georgia, which had record voter turnout for its primary on May 24. This compares to 2020’s primary election, when 50.1% of the county’s then 1.6 million registered voters turned up to vote.Įlection officials reported that year that the turnout was 18.2% higher than in 2016 and 91.5% higher than in 2012. Mirroring trends across the state of California, voter turnout at the polls in Orange County was low - as of early Wednesday evening, the county Registrar of Voters office showed an estimated 19.2% of eligible voters cast their ballots in this year’s primary, although some ballots mailed by the Tuesday deadline may still be outstanding.
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