Contra Costa sets record for ballots cast as final results of Nov. 3 election released

Contra Costa County elections officials finalized voting totals Monday for the Nov. 3 general election, and they showed a total of 591,143 of the county’s 703,021 registered voters cast ballots, an 84 percent turnout.

That number of ballots cast was a record for Contra Costa County, said Scott Konopasek, the county’s assistant registrar of voters. It represents an increase of more than 20 percent from the 2016 presidential election, in which more than 487,000 ballots were cast. The turnout percentage on Nov. 3 was close to a record, Konopasek said, but not quite. It was higher than in 2016, though, when 79 percent of registered voters in Contra Costa County voted.