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California HOA Election Rules: A Plain-English Guide
How California HOA board elections are required to run under the Davis-Stirling Act: who runs them, the notice deadlines, ballot secrecy, quorum, and records.
Planned sections
Each becomes an H2 with a complete answer in 40 words or fewer directly underneath, then the proof and the citation.
- What the Davis-Stirling Act requires of a board election
- Who runs the election, and who is not allowed to
- The Inspector of Elections: appointment, independence, duties
- Notice requirements and the deadlines that follow from them
- Election rules: what they must contain and how they are distributed
- Ballot secrecy and how it is protected
- Quorum, and what happens when an election does not reach it
- Counting the ballots and declaring the result
- Recordkeeping and how long records must be kept
- What changed recently
- Common mistakes associations make
- Frequently asked questions
Before writing
Pull each statute from the current code text — §5100 through §5145, and §5105, §5110, §5115, §5120, §5125 specifically. Davis-Stirling has been amended repeatedly in recent years, including on electronic voting and on quorum. Do not draft any of it from memory, from an older article, or from a competitor’s page.
Cite section numbers inline while drafting so the attorney pass has something concrete to check.