Where to Vote, and How Many Have Voted, in Manhattan Beach
Oct 29, 2024 09:58PM ● By MB News Staff
(Manhattan Beach city staffers at an information booth at the Manhattan Beach Farmers' Market on Tuesday.)
There are many ways to vote on or before Nov. 5, including by dropping off your absentee ballot. Just be sure to mail your ballot, or get to an official vote center or drop box before 8:00pm on Election Day.
Vote-By-Mail & Drop Boxes
Ballots returned by mail must be postmarked by Nov. 5, 2024, and ballots placed in a drop box must be deposited by 8:00pm that day.These local drop box locations are open 24 hours now:
- Manhattan Beach Art Center, South Side near the parking lot - 1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd. (can enter lot from 11th St.)
- Manhattan Beach Library, North Entrance – 1320 Highland Ave.
In-Person Vote Centers
- Neptunian Woman's Club, North Hall - 920 Highland Ave.
- Marine Avenue Park, Rocketship Hall - 1625 Marine Ave.
- Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, Fellowship Hall – 300 N. Redondo Ave.
Hours at all locations – Nov. 2-4: 10:00am-7:00pm, Nov. 5: 7:00am-8:00pm
- Hermosa Beach Community Center, Room 7 - 710 Pier Avenue, Hermosa Beach
- Cambria Hotel, Hearst I & II - 199 Continental Blvd., El Segundo
After you have dropped off your ballot, you can track it (when it is mailed, received and counted) using BallotTrax, also provided by the California Secretary of State.
Manhattan Beach Voter Registration and Early Vote Totals
By the time mail ballots were distributed this year, Manhattan Beach had 26,674 registered voters. Voters may continue to register, or re-register, through Election Day, which may affect overall voter totals.
At the end of Monday, October 28, county officials had received 5,570 ballots back from Manhattan Beach voters, representing 21% of all those registered. (See chart below.) Among local voters aged 65 or above, 36% had already returned their ballots.
The city's pace of early voting is well ahead of Los Angeles County overall, with just 14% of the county's registered voters having returned ballots so far.
Even with 21% of local ballots returned already, up to three-quarters of likely voters in Manhattan Beach might not yet have cast their ballots.
At the last presidential election, Nov. 3, 2020, when Manhattan Beach had slightly more registered voters than this year (27,037), voter turnout reached 87.4%, according to county statistics (see pg. 104).
In-person voting has diminished in recent years, in favor of absentee ballots filled out at home and either mailed, placed in drop boxes or brought to polling places. In-person voting was chosen by 17% of Manhattan Beach voters casting ballots in November 2020, with covid-19 prevalent, and by just 17.8% of voters who cast ballots in November 2022, after covid concerns had diminished somewhat.
