Community News
Election Results Update
by: Bob Page
Published: November 10, 2025
SANTA ANA...The Registrar of Voters posted the results from 987,667 ballots – about 98 percent of all in-person, Vote-By-Mail, and provisional ballots cast in the 2025 Statewide Special Election – by 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8.
The estimated 21,000 ballots still being processed when the last results report was posted were:
- 7,200 signature challenged Vote-By-Mail ballots that voters could cure
- 5,600 provisional ballots
- 8,200 Vote-By-Mail ballots
Amongst the remaining Vote-By-Mail ballots were ballots:
- Accepted for counting but not scanned in time for the results report
- Signature challenged by one or two members of our team that must be reviewed by additional team members as required by State law
- Damaged or mismarked by the voters that must be duplicated onto a new ballot
The U.S. Postal Service will likely deliver more Vote-By-Mail ballots with an eligible postmark by the Wednesday, Nov. 12 deadline and other counties could also forward Orange County ballots.
The Registrar of Voters team expects to process any additional ballots and get signature verified ones into the results by the following day.
Voters notified that their Vote-By-Mail ballot envelope was missing a signature or that the signature on the envelope was significantly different than the signatures in their registration file will have until 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30 to deliver a cure statement to the Registrar of Voters.
Senate Bill 280 set this cure deadline and prohibited the Registrar of Voters from certifying Orange County’s election results before Tuesday, Dec. 2.
All ballot processing is observable by the public. A daily calendar of canvass activities is posted on the Registrar of Voters’ website at ocvote.gov/observe.
The unofficial results of the 2025 Statewide Special Election are updated at 5 p.m. on weekdays and can be found at ocvote.gov/results. After updated results are posted, a What’s Left to Process report is updated as well at ocvote.gov/left.
Note: The Registrar of Voters will be closed on Tuesday, Nov. 11 in observance of Veterans Day.