{"id":341310,"date":"2026-06-01T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341310\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:22:12","slug":"what-to-expect-on-election-day-and-night-long-beach-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341310\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect on Election Day (and night) \u2022 Long Beach Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last chance to take our reader survey<\/a>! Thank you to the many loyal fans who filled it out and left lots of compliments. Anyone who hasn\u2019t, please tell us how we can better serve you \u2014 and get a chance to win a $15 giftcard for coffee.<\/p>\n

Election rundown<\/p>\n

One day remains until California voters decide, or at least advance, races for their next governor, congressional representatives, city mayors, judges and local ballot measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Long Beach, the five odd-numbered City Council districts, mayor, city auditor and school district trustees, among others, are all up for election<\/a>. Voters are also asked to consider a sales tax to support healthcare<\/a>, the L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s race, and 15 superior court judges on the ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some races are especially cumbersome this year \u2014 the governor\u2019s race alone has 60-plus candidates. As an antidote, a coalition of nonprofit newsrooms (us, LAist and CalMatters) has compiled useful information<\/a> to help you navigate the election with ease. Check out our nonpartisan, fact-based voter guide at LBPost.com\/elections<\/a>. It won\u2019t tell you who to vote for, but it will arm you with the information you need to feel confident in your decision.<\/p>\n

The statewide and local races you\u2019re voting in follow an open primary system. That means unless someone gets more than 50% of the vote, the top two candidate will advance to the general election in November, regardless of their party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were more than 269,000 registered voters in Long Beach as of 2024. More than half of them were Democrats (143,000), while another 46,000 were Republicans. Many more were undeclared. Now let\u2019s figure out your voting status, which you can check here<\/a>. Have your driver\u2019s license or last four digits of your Social Security number handy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re registered to vote in California, you are likely among the 5.8 million voters in L.A. County who already received a vote-by-mail ballot. If you\u2019ve already mailed your ballot and I\u2019m wasting my breath, that\u2019s terrific to hear \u2014 you can track it here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If not, never fear; it\u2019s not too late to return it. A list and map of vote center locations are available here<\/a>. Punch in an address in the upper left search bar to find a spot near you. You can drop it off at any polling place, dropbox<\/a> or county elections office. In order to be counted, the envelope must be postmarked no later than Tuesday and received by your county elections office by June 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you\u2019d rather vote in person. On Election Day, June 2, the centers will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you are in line by 8 p.m., you will be allowed to vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Voters enter the Billie Jean King Main Library as they wait in line in Long Beach, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n

California also offers same-day voter registration, which lets people register at vote centers, then cast a provisional ballot. Just request one in person at a county polling location<\/a>. Once county elections officials process the registration and validate the information, registration becomes permanent and the provisional ballot will be counted. For more info about same-day registration, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect immediate<\/a> results on Tuesday night. According to county registrar-recorder spokesperson Mike Sanchez, the first two rounds of returns should drop between 8:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. These are all the pre-counted vote-by-mail and early voting ballots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From there, the office says it receives all the in-person ballots that night and should start counting them by 10:30 p.m., reflected in several updates that will drop throughout the night. Some races might be decided shortly after the polls close, while others might be tighter than you realize and too close to call for days or weeks. (This is where those last-minute mail-in and provisional ballots can come into play.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be up late Tuesday night, giving you the play-by-play at LBPost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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City news and meetings<\/p>\n

The Downtown Long Beach Alliance is continuing a survey on downtown events to see what kinds of activities people want. Fill it out here<\/a>. It\u2019s open through June 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rep. Robert Garcia joined Congressman Derek Tran on Thursday to demand answers<\/a> from GKN Aerospace about why a tank at its Garden Grove plant came so close to exploding, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate the area.<\/a>\u00a0 \u201cWe need answers on what happened, why it happened, how they will prevent this from happening again,\u201d Garcia wrote in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Long Beach Police Department will detail how it is spending its share of local Measure A tax money at a city committee meeting inside the Civic Chambers on Thursday<\/a> at 3:30 p.m. Click here<\/a> to review their presentation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Expect an uptick in your water bill by this fall. The Long Beach Board of Public Utilities Commissioners on Thursday will review a 6% increase to water rates and an 8% increase in sewer rates<\/a>. Together, the difference \u2014 which would take effect in October \u2014 equates to $5.74 more per month for the typical household.\u00a0<\/p>\n

State legislators in the California Assembly have advanced AB 2461<\/a>, which would help uphold legal obligations by oil companies \u2014 and the companies that purchase wells \u2014 to plug them and pay for any associated cleanup.\u00a0 California has more than 87,000 oil and gas wells that will eventually need to be cleaned up \u2014 a total cost of $21.5 billion<\/a> that dwarfs the estimated $156 million that state regulators say oil and gas companies have provided. The bill now heads to the Senate later this year.<\/p>\n

ICYMI \u2014 California and national news<\/p>\n

Construction begins on long-awaited $105 million beachside pool in Belmont Shore (Long Beach Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Overcoming a lawsuit and \u2018lots of battle scars,\u2019 affordable housing project breaks ground in East Long Beach (Long Beach Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Does Long Beach deserve more say over Metro? There\u2019s a push for a dedicated board member (LAist<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The robot puppeteers of Silicon Valley teaching humanoids how to make your morning coffee (Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Struggling Carls Jr. franchisee plans to close 10 and sell 49 California locations (Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last chance to take our reader survey! Thank you to the many loyal fans who filled it out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-341310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341310","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=341310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}