57% of El Dorado County voters supported the recall that lost by a large margin in the state

Tuesday's gubernatorial recall election failed in the state of California, but in El Dorado County over 57 percent of the voters supported it. The results reflected the normal trend in the county to not support candidates who are members of the Democratic Party.

In the whole state, the recall failed by a margin of 63.5 percent to 36.5 percent. There were 6,703,848 voters casting the "no" ballot.

El Dorado County was not alone in the Sierra and eastern half of the state with only Nevada County voting to stop the recall.

Candidate Larry Elder was the lead vote tallies in the county by getting 29,901 votes to replace Governor Newsom should the recall be successful. Behind him in El Dorado County was State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley from Rocklin who earned 7,603 votes.

In El Dorado County, 137,856 ballots were mailed out, 101,728 were received back, but 4,250 of the ballots were returned due to a deceased voter, voters moving, or were undeliverable. 629 of the ballots were not accepted due to signatures not matching, no signature at all, received too late or are under review. In all, 96,849 people, of 70.2 percent of eligible voters in the county caste their ballot.

How they voted:
​Returned By Mail: 55,003
​​Returned Drop Box/Other: 41,729
​Voted at Vote Center: 5,301

There are still about 14,000 ballots left to be counted in the county.

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