The Board of State Canvassers – composed of Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, Judge Jon Beetem and Judge Daniel Green – certified the results of the Nov. 5 general election on Dec. 5. 

The certification process, set by Missouri statute, ensures that every vote is counted and that vote totals are accurate before the results are official. After Election Day, local officials have two weeks to verify vote totals and evaluate provisional ballots. The secretary of state’s office then has until the second Tuesday in December to validate the results reported by each of Missouri’s 116 local election authorities. The secretary of state and a panel of judges – this year Beetem and Green – then meet to certify the official results. 

“The people have spoken,” Ashcroft stated in a press release. “With November’s results now official, we are pleased to have completed another election cycle. The success of this election is respective of the patronage of Missouri’s voters, election authorities and poll workers.” 

Official results show 2,995,376 Missourians – only 67.56% of the state’s registered voters – voted in the general election.

Official results from the November election, as well as previous elections, are available at enr.sos.mo.gov.