What Went Down At The California Recall Election: Live Results

A number of indicators suggest that Newsom is likelier than not to keep his job tonight, but what kind of margin would be a good performance for Republicans or Democrats? Should we use Newsom’s previous 20-plus point margin in 2018 as a baseline?

The polls have just closed in California. While we’re waiting for more detailed analysis of the results, one thing we can say based off of preliminary exit polls is that “No” is leading in the first question of the recall, according to the ABC News Decision Desk. To be clear, though, there is not yet enough information to project whether Newsom has been recalled.

Before we move on to the main event, let’s check in on some of the other elections happening tonight that we talked about on the politics podcast earlier this week.

In the race for Cleveland mayor, it looks like progressive nonprofit executive Justin Bibb (26 percent) and City Council President Kevin Kelley (20 percent) will advance to the November general election. Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who is currently in third place with 17 percent, just conceded the race.

In the race for Boston mayor, few votes have been officially reported, but crowd-sourced results from Jessy Han put City Councilor Michelle Wu at 32 percent, City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George at 30 percent, City Councilor Andrea Campbell at 19 percent and acting Mayor Kim Janey at 15 percent. If those results hold, it would set up a clear ideological contrast in the general election between the progressive Wu and the moderate Essaibi George.