FACTS ON THE ELECTION

Orange County’s 2,114 polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Twenty phone lines will be added at the county registrar of voters office to handle voters’ questions on election day. The number is (714) 567-7600.

* Registrar Don Tanney estimated that about half of the county’s 1,037,251 registered voters will vote. “Originally, I thought it might be less because it appears the major parties have already selected their presidential nominee,” Tanney said. He revised his estimate upward, he said, because of the presence of Measure A, the slow-growth initiative, on the county ballot. “I think that’s going to bring people out,” Tanney said. “I think that’s the issue that is of most interest to people in Orange County right now.”

* Tanney said there are two lively congressional races--in the 40th District for the seat held by retiring Rep. Robert E. Badham (R-Newport Beach) and in the 42nd District for the seat being vacated by Rep. Daniel E. Lungren (R-Long Beach)--that “seem to be sparking a lot of interest and a lot of newsprint.”

* As of May 9, the final day for registering to vote in Tuesday’s election, 563,039, or 54.3%, of the county’s registered votes were Republicans and 366,883, or 35.4%, were Democrats.