Combined ballot

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Governor

• Gavin Newsom, Democratic
  7,721,410 votes 61.9%
• John H. Cox, Republican
  4,742,825 votes 38.1%

Lieutenant Governor

• Eleni Kounalakis, Democratic
  5,914,068 votes 56.6%
• Ed Hernandez, Democratic
  4,543,863 votes 43.4%

Secretary of State

• Alex Padilla, Democratic
  7,909,521 votes 64.5%
• Mark P. Meuser, Republican
  4,362,545 votes 35.5%

Controller

• Betty T. Yee, Democratic
  8,013,067 votes 65.5%
• Konstantinos Roditis, Republican
  4,229,480 votes 34.5%

Treasurer

• Fiona Ma, Democratic
  7,825,587 votes 64.1%
• Greg Conlon, Republican
  4,376,816 votes 35.9%

Attorney General

• Xavier Becerra, Democratic
  7,790,743 votes 63.6%
• Steven C. Bailey, Republican
  4,465,587 votes 36.4%

Insurance Commissioner

• Ricardo Lara, Democratic
  6,186,039 votes 52.9%
• Steve Poizner, No Party Preference
  5,515,293 votes 47.1%

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

• Tony K. Thurmond
  5,385,912 votes 50.9%
• Marshall Tuck
  5,198,738 votes 49.1%

State Board of Equalization; District 2

• Malia Cohen, Democratic
  2,482,171 votes 72.8%
• Mark Burns, Republican
  927,949 votes 27.2%

US Legislature

United States Senator

• Dianne Feinstein, Democratic
  6,019,422 votes 54.2%
• Kevin De León, Democratic
  5,093,942 votes 45.8%

United States Representative; District 2

• Jared Huffman, Democratic
  243,081 votes 77.0%
• Dale K. Mensing, Republican
  72,576 votes 23.0%

State Senate

State Senator; District 2

• Mike McGuire, Democratic
  233,688 votes 67.2%
• Veronica "Roni" Jacobi, Democratic
  114,184 votes 32.8%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 2

• Jim Wood, Democratic
  128,444 votes 69.4%
• Matt Heath, Republican
  56,549 votes 30.6%

Judicial

California Supreme Court (Yes/No)

• Leondra R. Kruger
  72.8% Yes (6,698,643) 27.2% No (2,506,418)
• Carol A. Corrigan
  69.8% Yes (6,539,085) 30.2% No (2,833,205)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 1 (Yes/No)

• James M. Humes
  76.7% Yes (1,183,965) 23.3% No (359,554)
• Sandra Margulies
  74.5% Yes (1,161,187) 25.5% No (396,639)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 2 (Yes/No)

• Marla Miller
  73.5% Yes (1,130,781) 26.5% No (408,027)
• James A. Richman
  66.4% Yes (1,006,555) 33.6% No (509,662)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 3 (Yes/No)

• Peter John Siggins
  75.6% Yes (1,137,347) 24.4% No (366,164)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 4 (Yes/No)

• Alison M. Tucher
  81.5% Yes (1,243,752) 18.5% No (281,909)
• Jon B. Streeter
  76.4% Yes (1,145,604) 23.6% No (353,804)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 5 (Yes/No)

• Barbara Jones
  82.9% Yes (1,267,452) 17.1% No (261,702)

City

Council Member; City of Arcata; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Sofia Pereira
  4,934 votes 44.30%
• Brett Watson
  3,877 votes 34.81%
• Valerie Rose-Campbell
  2,125 votes 19.08%

Council Member; City of Blue Lake (2 Elected)

• Elaine Hogan
  397 votes 51.42%
• Chris Curran
  356 votes 46.11%

Mayor; City of Eureka

• Susan Seaman
  4,092 votes 45.55%
• Michelle Marie Costantine-Blackwell
  2,689 votes 29.93%
• Heidi Messner
  2,150 votes 23.93%

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 1

• Leslie Castellano
  543 votes 49.18%
• Anthony Mantova
  256 votes 23.19%
• Hailey Lamb
  171 votes 15.49%
• Caroline Brooks
  132 votes 11.96%

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 3

• Natalie Arroyo
  1,365 votes 52.44%
• John Fullerton
  782 votes 30.04%
• Jeannie Breslin
  450 votes 17.29%

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 5

• Kim Bergel
  991 votes 61.86%
• Joe Bonino
  605 votes 37.77%

Mayor; City of Ferndale

• Michael Patrick Sweeney
  490 votes 70.20%
• Steve Nunes
  202 votes 28.94%

Council Member; City of Ferndale; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Robin Smith
  551 votes 59.83%
• Stephen Avis
  350 votes 38.00%

Council Member; City of Ferndale; 2 Year Term

• Jennifer Fisk- Becker
  614 votes 97.93%

Council Member; City of Fortuna (3 Elected)

• Jeremy Stanfield
  2,535 votes 35.20%
• Mike Johnson
  2,300 votes 31.94%
• Sue Long
  2,240 votes 31.11%

Council Member; City of Rio Dell (3 Elected)

• Julie Woodall
  616 votes 30.68%
• Bryan Richter
  598 votes 29.78%
• Debra Garnes
  447 votes 22.26%
• John B. McManus
  303 votes 15.09%

Council Member; City of Trinidad (3 Elected)

• Tom Davies
  104 votes 21.49%
• Dwight Miller
  103 votes 21.28%
• James H. Baker
  97 votes 20.04%
• Susan Rotwein
  93 votes 19.21%
• Brett D. Gregory
  45 votes 9.30%
• Michael J. Morgan
  34 votes 7.02%
• Patricia Morales

Board Member; Cuddeback Elementary School District (3 Elected)

• Erik Bess
  172 votes 29.45%
• Jacob R. Morss
  144 votes 24.66%
• Leonard Ward, Jr.
  137 votes 23.46%
• Kenneth Keating
  129 votes 22.09%

Governing Board Member; Eureka City Schools; Trustee Area 3

• G. Mario Fernandez
  1,731 votes 51.27%
• Wendy K. Davis
  1,616 votes 47.87%

Governing Board Member; Eureka City Schools; Trustee Area 5

• Fran Taplin
  1,330 votes 54.15%
• Brian Payton
  1,105 votes 44.99%

Board Member; Hydesville Elementary School District; 4 Year Term (3 Elected)

• Mollie Holmgren
  372 votes 30.69%
• Clint Victorine
  298 votes 24.59%
• David Fisch
  283 votes 23.35%
• Nicole Genaro
  251 votes 20.71%

Board Member; Loleta Union Elementary School District; 2 Year Term

• Jonathan Flyer
  245 votes 60.34%
• Roseann C. Milhorn
  158 votes 38.92%

Board Member; Loleta Union Elementary School District; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Donna Lockwood
  317 votes 54.66%
• Kirsten Boyce
  148 votes 25.52%
• Brian McNeill
  111 votes 19.14%

Board Member; Trinidad Union School District; 2 Year Term

• Jessica Eisner
  580 votes 71.78%
• Whende Boroughs
  219 votes 27.10%

Special District

County of Humboldt

Director; Humboldt Community Services District; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Alan Bongio
  3,035 votes 27.09%
• Desiree N. Davenport
  2,833 votes 25.29%
• Gregg Gardiner
  2,770 votes 24.72%
• Pat Kanzler
  2,508 votes 22.38%

Director; McKinleyville Community Services District (3 Elected)

• George A. Wheeler
  3,350 votes 27.11%
• David R. Couch
  3,335 votes 26.99%
• Dennis Mayo
  3,312 votes 26.80%
• Erik "Yahmo Ahqha" Rydberg
  2,190 votes 17.72%

Director; Arcata Fire Protection District; Division 5

• David A. Rosen
  1,834 votes 72.78%
• Jake Pickering
  662 votes 26.27%

Director; Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District; Division 4

• Richard Marks
  5,221 votes 62.04%
• Marian Brady
  3,172 votes 37.69%

Director; Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare District; 4 Year Term (3 Elected)

• Katie McGuire
  1,825 votes 33.8%
• Jessica Willis
  1,448 votes 26.8%
• Alison Rivas
  1,240 votes 23.0%
• W. H. "Scotty" McClure
  881 votes 16.3%

Proposition 1 Authorizes Bonds to Fund Specified Housing Assistance Programs
Pass: 6,751,018 / 56.2% Yes votes ...... 5,258,157 / 43.8% No votes

Authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for existing affordable housing programs for low-income residents, veterans, farmworkers, manufactured and mobile homes, infill, and transit-oriented housing. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $170 million annually over the next 35 years.

Proposition 2 Authorizes Bonds to Fund Existing Housing Program for Individuals with Mental Illness
Pass: 7,662,528 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,417,327 / 36.6% No votes

Amends Mental Health Services Act to fund No Place Like Home Program, which finances housing for individuals with mental illness. Ratifies existing law establishing the No Place Like Home Program. Fiscal Impact: Allows the state to use up to $140 million per year of county mental health funds to repay up to $2 billion in bonds. These bonds would fund housing for those with mental illness who are homeless.

Proposition 3 Authorizes Bonds To Fund Projects for Water Supply and Quality, Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Water Conveyance, and Groundwater Sustainability and Storage
Fail: 5,879,836 / 49.3% Yes votes ...... 6,034,991 / 50.7% No votes

Authorizes $8.877 billion in state general obligation bonds for various infrastructure projects. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging $430 million per year over 40 years. Local government savings for water-related projects, likely averaging a couple hundred million dollars annually over the next few decades.

Proposition 4 Authorizes Bonds Funding Construction at Hospitals Providing Children's Health Care
Pass: 7,551,298 / 62.7% Yes votes ...... 4,494,143 / 37.3% No votes

Authorizes $1.5 billion in bonds, to be repaid from state's General Fund, to fund grants for construction, expansion, renovation, and equipping of qualifying children's hospitals. Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs to repay bonds averaging about $80 million annually over the next 35 years.

Proposition 5 Changes Requirements For Certain Property Owners to Transfer Their Property Tax Base to Replacement Property
Fail: 4,813,251 / 40.2% Yes votes ...... 7,152,993 / 59.8% No votes

Removes certain transfer requirements for homeowners over 55, severely disabled homeowners, and contaminated or disaster-destroyed property. Fiscal Impact: Schools and local governments each would lose over $100 million in annual property taxes early on, growing to about $1 billion per year. Similar increase in state costs to backfill school property tax losses.

Proposition 6 Eliminates Certain Road Repair and Transportation Funding. Requires Certain Fuel Taxes and Vehicle Fees Be Approved By the Electorate
Fail: 5,283,222 / 43.2% Yes votes ...... 6,952,081 / 56.8% No votes

Repeals a 2017 transportation law's taxes and fees designated for road repairs and public transportation. Fiscal Impact: Reduced ongoing revenues of $5.1 billion from state fuel and vehicle taxes that mainly would have paid for highway and road maintenance and repairs, as well as transit programs.

Proposition 7 Confirms California Daylight Saving Time to Federal Law. Allows Legislature to Change Daylight Saving Time Period
Pass: 7,167,315 / 59.7% Yes votes ...... 4,828,564 / 40.3% No votes

Gives Legislature ability to change daylight saving time period by two-thirds vote, if changes are consistent with federal law. Fiscal Impact: This measure has no direct fiscal effect because changes to daylight saving time would depend on future actions by the Legislature and potentially the federal government.

Proposition 8 Regulates Amounts Outpatient Kindney Dialysis Clinics Charge For Dialysis Treatment
Fail: 4,845,264 / 40.1% Yes votes ...... 7,247,917 / 59.9% No votes

Requires rebates and penalties if charges exceed limit. Requires annual reporting to the state. Prohibits clinics from refusing to treat patients based on payment source. Fiscal Impact: Overall annual effect on state and local governments ranging from net positive impact in the low tens of millions of dollars to net negative impact in the tens of millions of dollars.

Proposition 10 Expands Local Governments' Authority to Enact Rent Control
Fail: 4,949,543 / 40.6% Yes votes ...... 7,251,443 / 59.4% No votes

Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions by local communities, revenue losses could be less or considerably more.

Proposition 11 Requires Private-Sector Emergency Ambulance Employees to Remain On-Call During Work Breaks. Eliminates Certain Employer Liability
Pass: 7,181,116 / 59.6% Yes votes ...... 4,861,831 / 40.4% No votes

Law entitling hourly employees to breaks without being on-call would not apply to private-sector ambulance employees. Fiscal Impact: Likely fiscal benefit to local governments (in the form of lower costs and higher revenues), potentially in the tens of millions of dollars each year.

Proposition 12 Establishes New Standards For Confinement of Specified Farm Animals; Bans Sale of Noncomplying Products
Pass: 7,551,434 / 62.7% Yes votes ...... 4,499,702 / 37.3% No votes

Establishes minimum requirements for confining certain farm animals. Prohibits sales of meat and egg products from animals confined in noncomplying manner. Fiscal Impact: Potential decrease in state income tax revenues from farm businesses, likely not more than several million dollars annually. State costs up to $10 million annually to enforce the measure.

Measure H Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Blue Lake (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 395 / 73.42% Yes votes ...... 143 / 26.58% No votes

Shall the City of Blue Lake adopt an ordinance amending Chapter 3 of the Municipal Code by imposing a ten percent (10%) general tax charged to hotel guests for the privilege of occupancy within the City? The tax imposed by this Ordinance is expected to generate $19,000 in annual revenue and will continue in effect until later repealed.

Measure I Transactions and Use Tax -- City of Eureka (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 5,882 / 64.25% Yes votes ...... 3,273 / 35.75% No votes

Shall the Eureka Municipal Code be amended to add a one-quarter of one percent supplemental transaction and use tax to fund street, road, and alleyway maintenance and pothole repair, raising approximately 2.2 million dollars annually, with the following restrictions?
- The tax will expire after twenty years, unless reauthorized by voters.
- A citizens' oversight committee shall be established to conduct annual audits of all expenditures generated by the tax to ensure fiscal accountability and public participation.

Measure J Transactions and Use Tax -- City of Rio Dell (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 475 / 50.64% Yes votes ...... 463 / 49.36% No votes

Shall the City of Rio Dell continue to impose a one percent (1.0%) transaction and use tax with all proceeds placed in the City's General Fund to be used for any governmental purpose? The tax authorized by this Ordinance is expected to generate $245,000 in annual revenue and will continue in effect until December 31, 2024.

Measure K Humboldt County Sanctuary Law -- County of Humboldt (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 28,139 / 55.31% Yes votes ...... 22,733 / 44.69% No votes

The people of the County of Humboldt ordain as follows: It is hereby affirmed that the County of Humboldt County is a sanctuary in its affirmation and support for SB 54 codified as Chapter 495 (An act to amend Sections 7282 and 7282.5 of, and to add Chapter 17.25 (commencing with Section 7284) to Division 7 of Title 1 of, the Government Code, and to repeal Section 11369 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to law enforcement), and additionally as stated in this Chapter.

Measure L School Bond -- Cutten Elementary School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 1,535 / 68.62% Yes votes ...... 702 / 31.38% No votes

To modernize/upgrade classrooms, restrooms and school facilities, repair/replace leaky roofs, and increase student access to computers/modern technology that improves the quality of education, shall Cutten School District issue $4,000,000 of bonds, with legal rates, projected average annual levies of $0.03 per $100 of assessed valuation while the bonds are outstanding (an estimated $140,000 on average raised annually), annual audits, independent citizens' oversight committee, NO money for administrator salaries and all money for local schools?

Measure M Ordinance Amendment -- City of Arcata (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 2,461 / 32.19% Yes votes ...... 5,185 / 67.81% No votes

Shall the initiative measure, "An Initiative to Prohibit the Modification and/or Destruction of the President William McKinley Statue and its Base and/or the Relocation from Its Historic Place in the Center of the Arcata Plaza," be adopted?

Measure N School Bond -- Northern Humboldt Union High School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 13,979 / 72.48% Yes votes ...... 5,309 / 27.52% No votes

To improve the quality of education; repair or replace leaky roofs; upgrade inadequate electrical systems; and modernize/renovate outdated classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; shall Northern Humboldt Union High School District issue $24,000,000 of bonds at legal interest rates, generating on average $554,000 annually as long as bonds are outstanding at a rate of approximately 1.9 cents per $100 assessed value, with annual audits, independent citizens' oversight committee, NO money for salaries and all money staying local?

Measure O Transactions and Use Tax -- County of Humboldt (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 38,029 / 73.87% Yes votes ...... 13,453 / 26.13% No votes

To maintain essential services including 911 emergency response/rural ambulance/fire protection; ensuring 24-hour sheriff's patrols; providing children's mental health/victims of child abuse services; emergency communications systems; repairing deteriorating roads; and other essential general services, shall a measure to renew the existing 1/2-cent sales tax, generating approximately $12,000,000 annually until ended by voters, with annual audits/citizen oversight, no increase in tax rate, be adopted?