2024 ELECTION: Results for Salem-area races
Update Wednesday, Nov. 6, 5:40 p.m.
After a 5 p.m. update in local vote tallies, Marion County election officials have more than 60,000 ballots remaining to count, with about 90,000 counted to date.
Polk County was closer to finishing counting based on estimates clerks provided Wednesday morning, with a few thousand ballots remaining to be processed. Election workers had counted more than 43,000 ballots as of Wednesday evening.
Both election offices will count ballots received in the mail up to one week after Election Day.
Update Wednesday, Nov. 6, 12:25 p.m.
As of around midnight Tuesday night, 82,091 ballots in Marion County were tallied. Wednesday morning, there were roughly about 70,000 to 100,000 more ballots remaining to count, about half of which came in on Election Day, said Clerk Bill Burgess. Turnout will remain unclear until more are counted, he said.
In total, 164,308 people in Marion County cast their votes in the 2020 presidential election, according to county data.
As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, 35,024 ballots had been tallied in Polk County. Roughly 10,000 remained to be counted, said Chief Elections Clerk Cole Steckley Wednesday morning.
In Polk County, 49,119 people voted during the 2020 presidential election, according to state data.
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