Earlier cost estimates were revised over the summer after the state legislature approved a bill allowing the recall election date to be moved up.
The state agency was required to submit estimates to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber's office regarding how much it would cost county and state officials to carry out the recall election before an election date was set. The Department of Finance released an initial estimate in early June but revised it a few weeks later after state legislators approved a bill that enabled the recall election date to be moved up. Newsom signed the bill in late June.
The Department of Finance's initial estimate said it would cost $215.2 million to hold the 2021 gubernatorial recall election. The revised cost estimates released in early July said it would cost counties an additional $28.4 million and the state an additional $32.4 million to carry out the election, bringing the agency's cost estimate total to $276 million.reached out to the California secretary of state's office for further comment and will update this article with any response.
The California Department of Finance earlier this summer estimated the combined state and county costs of California's gubernatorial recall election would be $276 million. Above, conservative activists gather signatures in a recall effort against California Governor Gavin Newsom near Pasadena City Hall in Pasadena, California on February 28, 2021.The election was held on September 14, but many voters cast mail-in ballots ahead of the election date.
Newsom's projected defeat of the recall election is a result that enables him to complete his term in office, which doesn't officially end until January 2, 2023. Newsom, who is currently serving his first term as governor, will also be able to run for re-election during the 2022 midterms. Newsom is the second California governor to face a recall election since the state adopted its recall process in 1911. The first sitting governor to face a recall was Democrat Gray Davis, who was removed from office following his recall election in 2003. Before that recall, state election officials estimated it would cost between $53 million and $66 million to carry out the recall election.
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