![]() ![]() More people ultimately returned their Nov. But he said, “We did hear from a lot of voters that they were thankful that they did have the opportunity to vote through the mail because of COVID.”Īnother sign of things to come: the term “vote by mail” ballots might not be 100% accurate anymore. 3 election included some younger voters who may simply have been energized to vote early. Kelley said it’s hard to tell how much the pandemic influenced voters’ behavior because the high turnout for the Nov. ![]() Though Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley couldn’t have anticipated the coronavirus when he began pushing to update the county’s voting system in 2017, the changes that started in March came in handy during the general election, allowing anyone who chose to cast a ballot from home. The March primary was the first time a ballot was mailed to every registered voter, and the first time the county opened multi-day vote centers and placed drop boxes around the county to collect mail ballots. Voter registration shows that Santa Ana, Stanton and Anaheim are the county’s top three Democrat cities, but Biden drew his biggest vote shares in Santa Ana, Irvine and Laguna Beach. Looking at total votes by city, Villa Park, Yorba Linda and Newport Beach, the first, second and third most Republican cities by party registration, were, in that order, Trump’s strongest supporters. And in much of Little Saigon, centered in Westminster, voters that once liked Clinton outright favored Trump this time around.Ĭonversely, voters in some parts of Mission Viejo and other South County areas who in ’16 liked Trump went to Biden this year. This election, while many Santa Ana precincts still favored Biden, the share of votes that went to Trump grew. The data also showed this: In some parts of Orange County, voters changed their minds about Trump.įour years ago, Clinton led strongly over Trump in many neighborhoods of Santa Ana and Little Saigon. For example, in the voting zone that includes Fashion Island, where 2,232 ballots were cast for president, Trump took about 65% of the vote. While the outgoing president got 100% of the vote in a small horse country precinct in Orange Park Acres, where all 14 voters chose him, and 11 out of 12 votes cast in a precinct that touches Newport Beach’s Back Bay, the most Trump-friendly standard precincts weren’t quite as supportive. Trump’s support in Orange County was more scattered. In those, Biden won around 9 out of 10 votes out of about 2,300 ballots cast for president. ![]() ![]() If you pull away the tiniest precincts, where just a few votes were cast, Biden is most popular in the neighborhoods around UC Irvine, which include student and faculty housing. Another 2% voted for third-party candidates. The vote for presidentĪcross the county, 54% of voters chose Biden while 44% picked Trump. While final numbers are expected to be certified in December, a precinct-level analysis of the preliminary totals offers insight into how local voting patterns have changed, where some residents left ballots blank and when they did something increasingly rare in American politics - split their tickets. These are a few of the electoral facts emerging as the Orange County Registrar of Voters counts the last of the ballots from the 2020 general election. With old trends upended by the coronavirus pandemic and political rhetoric, more voters submitted their ballots via drop box than by any other voting method.Īnd while reliably blue neighborhoods in Santa Ana and Irvine strongly favored President-elect Joe Biden, President Donald Trump flipped Little Saigon this year, which in 2016 gravitated toward Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Over the past month, more people turned out to vote in Orange County than in any election in more than a half century. ![]()
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