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<\/p>\nMore than 180,000 ballots returned so far for California primary election, data firm says<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:58 PM PDT May 9, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tMore than 180,000 ballots have been returned with less than a month to go before California\u2019s primary election on June 2, according to a data firm used by political campaigns.Data from Political Data Inc., as of Friday, showed that nearly 1% of the state\u2019s 22,983,257 ballots had been returned. The turnout rate for Democrats so far is 0.7% and for Republicans 1.1%. Those who declined to state a party had a turnout rate of 0.6%. Voters ages 65 and older had a turnout rate of 1.7%, which is the highest. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n More than 180,000 ballots have been returned with less than a month to go before California\u2019s primary election on June 2, according to a data firm used by political campaigns.<\/p>\n Data from Political Data Inc.<\/a>, as of Friday, showed that nearly 1% of the state\u2019s 22,983,257 ballots had been returned. <\/p>\n The turnout rate for Democrats so far is 0.7% and for Republicans 1.1%. Those who declined to state a party had a turnout rate of 0.6%. <\/p>\n Voters ages 65 and older had a turnout rate of 1.7%, which is the highest. <\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 180,000 ballots returned so far for California primary election, data firm says Updated: 10:58 PM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2820,7167,7,9,8,90820,129664,1751,23615,129662,2624,129665,7169,1748,225,669,2734,129663,1522],"class_list":["post-308618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-app","tag-ballot","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-primary-election","tag-datum-firm","tag-democrats","tag-download","tag-election-tracker","tag-june","tag-political-campaign","tag-political-data-inc","tag-republicans","tag-state","tag-subscribe","tag-top-california-story","tag-turnout-rate","tag-voter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}