Thursday, June 4, 2026

Over 700,000 Los Angeles County Primary Ballots Remain Uncounted

More than 700,000 ballots from Los Angeles County’s June 2 statewide direct primary election remain uncounted, the county’s elections office reported late Wednesday, meaning the count released so far is officially preliminary and any close contests could still shift as the remaining ballots are processed.

That’s not an issue when it comes to Pasadena City Councilmember races, which Pasadena Now called on election night itself. Incumbents Vice Mayor Jess Rivas and Councilmembers Justin Jones and Jason Lyon each won handily.

Dean C. Logan, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, announced the update included 77,521 ballots processed since election night, and the total count now stands at 1,395,987 — 23.69 percent of registered voters, the office said.

But the count is far from over. The office put its preliminary estimate of outstanding ballots at 713,180 — roughly a third of the more than 2.1 million ballots received countywide so far, counted and outstanding combined. The overwhelming majority are mailed: an estimated 700,000 Vote by Mail ballots, alongside 11,340 Conditional Voter Registration ballots and 1,840 provisional ballots.

The Vote by Mail estimate covers ballots postmarked by election day and received from the United States Postal Service as of the update, plus ballots dropped at official drop boxes and vote centers on June 2, 2026. The office cautioned that the estimate is preliminary and subject to change as ballots continue to be scanned, prepared, and processed, and that it excludes additional valid Vote by Mail ballots that may still arrive — those postmarked by election day and received through Tuesday, June 9, 2026, the seventh day after the election.

The office said it is prioritizing the timely processing, verifying, and counting of outstanding ballots during what it calls the Official Election Canvass, which it described as “a 30-day period in which the RR/CC processes and verifies all outstanding ballots to ensure that every eligible ballot cast by Election Day is counted.”

The next update is scheduled for Thursday, June 4. Election results can be viewed at LAVOTE.GOV, and the full schedule of count updates is available on the Canvass Update Schedule.