Election basics, contact information
Polls in California are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
For information on the location of your polling place, go to
Once polls close, local and statewide voting results will be available here.
Absentee ballots will be counted first and are usually avaiable between 8:30 and 9 p.m.
There are 15.4 million registered voters in the state. Of those, 6.5 million are Democrat, 5.1 million are
Repubican, with 2.9 million decline to state. The remaining voters are divided among other parties
In the election decline to state voters can vote in the Democratic primary by asking for a ballot. Republicans have a closed primary, where only its members may vote.
The election will choose 171 Republican delegates, to be decided by winner-take-all in each of teh 53 Congressional Districts.
Demoocrats have 241 delegates to be decided, but on a proportional basis in each Congressional District. The delegates will be selected in mid-April.