California has 52 seats in the House of Representatives. When will results be declared after Trump admin asks Supreme Court to block counting mail-in ballots?

California has 52 seats in the House of Representatives, more than any other state. Democrats need a net gain of four House seats to win a majority in the chamber. California is the most populous US state and a Democratic stronghold. US President Donald Trump has made California a focal point of his sweeping immigration crackdown. All eyes will be on Election Day on Tuesday, November 3.

President Trump-led Republican Party is fighting to retain control of Congress in the midterms. The administration has intensified its focus on alleged noncitizen voting in the run-up to the midterms. Trump has made false claims about widespread US voting fraud including in the 2020 election lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

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Polling will be closed in California at 8 pm (PT)/11 pm (ET). California and Washington are the states where polling will be closed last among all states. In 2018, after a projected winner fell behind in California's 21st Congressional District, AP posted on its race-call account that it was retracting the call because Democrat T.J. Cox had taken the lead in the vote count.

However, a new scenario has emerged on Monday, as Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court to temporarily block California from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters who federal officials allege are likely non-US citizens. Escalating a legal fight that could affect thousands of voters in the November 3 midterm elections, the Justice Department filed the emergency request as it seeks to prevent counting the disputed ballots until each voter's citizenship status can be verified.

The administration already sought to restrict voting by mail — a mode of casting ballots used more often by Democratic-leaning voters — but the Supreme Court in September rebuffed that effort. The list of 20,000 registered voters was amassed by the US Department of Homeland Security and sent to California officials and to Los Angeles County officials.

California has said that the state's safeguards against noncitizen voting are robust and that the lawsuit threatens to deprive 20,000 people of their right to vote based on vague accusations. The administration's process for scrutinizing voter lists to identify noncitizens is flawed and likely rife with errors, it said in court papers.