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See Also:   Information for the County of Sonoma
(Elections Office, local League of Women Voters, links to other county election sites)

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 Board of Equalization; District 2

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

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 Senator; District 2

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

Member of the State Assembly; District 2

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

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)

School

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

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

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 M Transactions and Use Tax -- County of Sonoma (2/3 Approval Required)
Pass: 148,130 / 72.6% Yes votes ...... 55,852 / 27.4% No votes

To improve and protect Sonoma County's regional and neighborhood parks; safeguard water supplies, streams, rivers; reduce future wildfire risk; preserve fish and wildlife habitat; conserve natural areas for future generations; support community health and expand walking, hiking, and biking trails; shall Sonoma County establish a one-eighth cent special transaction and use tax (sales tax) countywide for a ten-year period, providing approximately $11.5 million annually, with citizens' oversight and annual audits?