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2022 Elections
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This folio is an overview of the 2022 California elections, including the offices on the ballot covered by Ballotpedia, election dates, and often asked questions.

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Offices on the ballot

Election dates

California election dates, 2022

Statewide election dates in California are listed beneath. For more dates, please see the elections calendar.

Statewide election dates

June 7, 2022: Principal
November 8, 2022: Full general ballot

Polling hours:

Local election dates

Ballotpedia provides comprehensive ballot coverage of municipal elections in the nation's 100 largest cities by population, including races for trial court judgeships and canton offices that overlap them. Ballotpedia also covers the nation'southward 200 largest public schoolhouse districts past student enrollment and all school districts overlapping the top 100 cities by population.

Frequently asked questions

When are the polls open?


See State Poll Opening and Closing Times (2022) for more information

Where tin I find election results?

Election results are posted on Ballotpedia's election overview pages, besides equally the relevant candidate pages. You lot tin can find links to the electric current election overview pages in the "Offices on the ballot" section of this page.

How practise primaries piece of work in California?

California uses a top-ii principal system, in which all candidates appear on the aforementioned ballot. The height two vote-getters, regardless of political party affiliation, move on to the general election. In states that exercise not utilise a meridian-ii system, all parties are ordinarily able to put forward a candidate for the general ballot if they choose to.[one] [2] [3] [four]

Unlike the top-two format used in some states (Louisiana and Georgia special elections for example), a general election betwixt the height two candidates in California occurs regardless of whether the top candidate received fifty per centum of the vote in the first round of elections.

Equally of 2019, California was one of three states to utilise a superlative-two primary arrangement. Washington used the arrangement for congressional and state-level elections, and Nebraska utilized a top-ii organisation for its nonpartisan country legislature.

For information well-nigh which offices are nominated via primary ballot, see this article.

How practise I register to vote?

To vote in California, an individual must exist a U.S. citizen and California resident. A voter must be at least xviii years of historic period on Election Twenty-four hours. Conditional voter registration is available beginning 14 days before an election through Ballot Day.[5]

On October 10, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into constabulary Associates Bill No. 1461, too known every bit the New Motor Voter Act. The legislation, which took effect in 2016, authorized automatic voter registration in California for any individuals who visit the Section of Motor Vehicles to learn or renew a driver's license.[6] [seven]


Is there an early voting menstruation?

See also: Early voting

California permits early voting. Learn more by visiting this website.

Who is eligible for absentee voting?

See also: Absentee/mail service-in voting

The table beneath displays absentee voting information specific to California's 2022 main election.

Absentee voting in California
Are there limits on who tin asking a ballot? North/A
Post request deadline May 31, 2022
Request postmark or receipt borderline Received
Mail render deadline June 7, 2022
Return postmark or receipt borderline Postmarked
Notary/witness requirements Northward/A

California provides for universal, automatic post-in voting in all elections. Local election officials automatically deliver mail-in ballots to all registered voters . State law does non preclude voters from choosing instead to cast their ballots in person.[eight]

What are the voter ID laws in California?

Meet Voter identification laws by country.

How do I file to run for office?

See Ballot admission requirements for political candidates in California for information on how to run for state or federal office.

What does Ballotpedia cover?

Ballotpedia'south coverage extends to all elections on the federal level, all gubernatorial, state legislative, statewide election measure, and statewide judicial elections, as well as many other types of land executive offices. Local ballot coverage includes comprehensive ballot coverage for municipal and judicial elections in the top 100 cities past population and races for the large counties that overlap them. In the state capitals outside of the 100 largest cities, it includes coverage of mayoral, city council, and district chaser elections. Information technology also includes school board elections in the top 200 largest schoolhouse districts past enrollment, all California local ballot measures, and notable local ballot measures from across the nation. Ballotpedia besides covers all elections in the U.S. territories only not elections in other countries.

How do I contact Ballotpedia with a question?

E-mail u.s. at editor@ballotpedia.org.

Redistricting following the 2020 census

This section lists major events in the mail-2020 census redistricting cycle in reverse chronological order. Major events include the release of apportionment data, the release of census population data, the introduction of formal map proposals, the enactment of new maps, and noteworthy court challenges. Click the dates below for additional information.

  • Dec. 27, 2021: The commission delivered its terminal maps to the secretary of state completing the redistricting process.
  • Dec. 20, 2021: The committee displayed its final maps for the country'south congressional, legislative, and Board of Equalization commune lines.
  • Nov. ten, 2021: The commission released its beginning prepare of typhoon maps for the state's congressional, legislative, and Board of Equalization district lines.
  • Sept. 22, 2021: The California Supreme Court extended the commission'south deadline to release its preliminary typhoon district maps to November xv, 2021, and its deadline to deliver terminal maps to the secretary of land to December 27, 2021.
  • Sept. 20, 2021: The California Citizens Redistricting Commission received official census data signaling the start of its redistricting process.
  • Sept. xvi, 2021: The U.Southward. Census Bureau released data from the 2020 census in an easier-to-employ format to state redistricting government and the public.
  • Aug. 12, 2021: The U.S. Demography Bureau delivered redistricting information to states in a legacy format.
  • April 26, 2021: The U.South. Census Bureau delivered apportionment counts.

Footnotes

  1. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Land Primary Election Types," accessed October 25, 2019
  2. FairVote, "Primaries," accessed October 25, 2019
  3. Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through Jan iii, 2014, researching and analyzing diverse state websites and codes.
  4. Alex Padilla California Secretary of Land, "Primary Elections in California," accessed Oct 25, 2019
  5. California Secretary of State, "Voter Registration," accessed October 6, 2019
  6. The Los Angeles Times, "Gov. Chocolate-brown approves automatic voter registration for Californians," Oct 10, 2015
  7. The Sacramento Bee, "California voter law could register millions–for a first," Oct xx, 2015
  8. California Legislative Data, "AB-37 Elections: vote by mail ballots," accessed October 5, 2021