{"id":453557,"date":"2026-09-04T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453557\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:20:18","slug":"key-dates-to-know-for-the-november-2026-election-in-california-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453557\/","title":{"rendered":"Key dates to know for the November 2026 election in California \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections for Congress, California governor, Los Angeles mayor and more will be among the closely watched contest on the November ballot in California. <\/p>\n<p>But before the first mail-in ballots are sent to voters, let&#8217;s look at the election season calendar. <\/p>\n<p>A certified listed of candidates for the election has already been posted by the California Secretary of State. Voters also can <a href=\"https:\/\/voterstatus.sos.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to check their voting status and make sure their mailing address is correct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up next, a few more important dates and deadlines to know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 4: The online version of the voter information guide will be available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 19: This is the last day for county elections officials to send ballots and balloting materials to military and overseas voters who have requested them.<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 24-Oct. 13: The California Secretary of State will mail the official voter information guide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sept. 24-Oct. 13: County elections official also will mail county voter information guides during this period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 5: County elections officials will begin mailing each registered voter a vote-by-mail ballot no later that this date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 5: Early voting sites open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 6-Nov. 3: All counties will open ballot drop-off locations for vote-by-mail ballots by this date. Click here for find a location.<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 19: An important deadline. This is the last day to register to vote for the Nov. 3 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 20-Nov. 3: Missed the registration deadline? Voters can conditionally register to vote with a provisional ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 24: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/voters-choice-act\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Voter\u2019s Choice Act counties<\/a> will open vote centers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 3: Election Day. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in California. If you\u2019re in line before your polling location closes, you can vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>County elections offices will begin reporting elections results after polls close. Expect several updates over the hours and days that follow Election Day. County elections officials have until Dec. 3 to certify election results.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elections for Congress, California governor, Los Angeles mayor and more will be among the closely watched contest on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38024,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-453557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-decision-2026","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453557","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=453557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}