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 1

• Ted Gaines, Republican
  1,436,547 votes 51.4%
• Tom Hallinan, Democratic
  1,355,782 votes 48.6%

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 10

• Josh Harder, Democratic
  115,945 votes 52.3%
• Jeff Denham, Republican
  105,955 votes 47.7%

State Senate

State Senator; District 8

• Andreas Borgeas, Republican
  202,741 votes 59.6%
• Paulina Miranda, Democratic
  137,311 votes 40.4%

State Senator; District 12

• Anna Caballero, Democratic
  110,386 votes 54.4%
• Rob Poythress, Republican
  92,691 votes 45.6%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 12

• Heath Flora, Republican
  94,404 votes 60.0%
• Robert D. Chase, Democratic
  62,811 votes 40.0%

Member of the State Assembly; District 21

• Adam C. Gray, Democratic
  74,320 votes 71.3%
• Justin Ryan Quigley, Libertarian
  29,855 votes 28.7%

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 5 (Yes/No)

• Charles S. Poochigian
  68.0% Yes (469,317) 32.0% No (221,338)
• Donald R. Franson, Jr.
  65.5% Yes (445,678) 34.5% No (234,614)
• Kathleen A. Meehan
  65.1% Yes (441,854) 34.9% No (237,015)
• Thomas Desantos
  64.1% Yes (436,155) 35.9% No (244,550)
• Bruce Smith
  62.3% Yes (418,282) 37.7% No (253,095)
• Mark W. Snauffer
  61.9% Yes (416,029) 38.1% No (255,930)

County

Supervisor; County of Stanislaus; Supervisorial District 3

• Terry Withrow
  12,647 votes 49.98%
• Tony Madrigal
  12,518 votes 49.47%
• (139 Total Other Write-In Votes .55%)

Supervisor; County of Stanislaus; Supervisorial District 4

• Tom Berryhill
  16,995 votes 52.61%
• Frank C. Damrell
  15,166 votes 46.95%
• (143 Total Other Write-In Votes .44%)

District Attorney; County of Stanislaus

• Birgit Fladager
  83,480 votes 60.54%
• John R. Mayne
  53,494 votes 38.79%
• (928 Total Other Write-In Votes .67%)

Superintendent of Schools; County of Stanislaus

• Scott Kuykendall
  73,479 votes 53.35%
• Shannon Sanford
  63,428 votes 46.06%
• (811 Total Other Write-In Votes .59%)

Council Member; City of Ceres; Council District 1

• Channce A. Condit
  2,502 votes 95.35%
• (122 Total Other Write-In Votes 4.65%)

Council Member; City of Ceres; Council District 2

• Linda Ryno
  1,739 votes 79.30%
• Melvin Eugene "Gene" Yeakley
  434 votes 19.79%
• (20 Total Other Write-In Votes .91%)

Council Member; City of Newman (2 Elected)

• Casey Graham
  1,239 votes 30.06%
• Nick Candea
  1,213 votes 29.43%
• Davis Freitas
  1,192 votes 28.92%
• Walter Waite, III
  440 votes 10.67%
• (38 Total Other Write-In Votes .92%)

Mayor; City of Newman

• Bob Martina
  1,292 votes 51.52%
• E. Timothy Parker
  1,202 votes 47.93%
• (14 Total Other Write-In Votes .56%)

Council Member; City of Oakdale (2 Elected)

• Cherilyn Bairos
  4,613 votes 42.44%
• Christopher Smith
  3,248 votes 29.88%
• Teresa Kinney
  2,930 votes 26.95%
• (79 Total Other Write-In Votes .73%)

Mayor; City of Oakdale

• J. R. McCarty
  5,804 votes 94.54%
• (335 Total Other Write-In Votes 5.46%)

Council Member; City of Patterson; Council District B

• Dennis McCord
  1,245 votes 92.57%
• (100 Total Other Write-In Votes 7.43%)

Council Member; City of Patterson; Council District D

• Cynthia Homen
  379 votes 35.00%
• Ivan M. Lopez
  377 votes 34.81%
• Lynn Apland
  315 votes 29.09%
• (12 Total Other Write-In Votes 1.11%)

Mayor; City of Patterson

• Deborah M. Novelli
  4,139 votes 86.63%
• (639 Total Other Write-In Votes 13.37%)

Council Member; City of Riverbank; Council District 1

• Luis Uribe
  453 votes 37.69%
• Jack Whorton
  386 votes 32.11%
• Eva Sanchez Nash
  351 votes 29.20%
• (12 Total Other Write-In Votes 1.00%)

Council Member; City of Riverbank; Council District 3

• Cal Campbell
  878 votes 50.34%
• Leanne Jones Cruz
  844 votes 48.39%
• (22 Total Other Write-In Votes 1.26%)

Council Member; City of Turlock; Council District 1

• Nicole Larson
  2,861 votes 45.84%
• Forrest J. White
  1,407 votes 22.54%
• Jon Boulos
  1,070 votes 17.14%
• Autumn Salazar
  720 votes 11.54%
• Logan Sisco
  156 votes 2.50%
• (27 Total Other Write-In Votes .43%)

Council Member; City of Turlock; Council District 3

• Andrew Nosrati
  3,176 votes 53.30%
• Bill DeHart
  2,741 votes 46.00%
• (42 Total Other Write-In Votes .70%)

Mayor; City of Turlock

• Amy Bublak
  8,300 votes 37.31%
• Gary Soiseth
  6,607 votes 29.70%
• Brad Bates
  6,342 votes 28.51%
• Jaime Franco
  930 votes 4.18%
• (69 Total Other Write-In Votes .31%)

Council Member; City of Waterford (2 Elected)

• Joseph E. Ewing, III
  1,249 votes 38.32%
• Elizabeth Talbott
  1,104 votes 33.88%
• James JD Romero
  864 votes 26.51%
• (42 Total Other Write-In Votes 1.29%)

Mayor; City of Waterford

• Michael Van Winkle
  1,857 votes 94.89%
• (100 Total Other Write-In Votes 5.11%)

School

Board Member; Keyes Union School District; Area 2

• Jimmy Emmons, Sr.
  160 votes 73.39%
• Ivy Benavides
  58 votes 26.61%

Board Member; Newman Crows Landing Unified School District; Area 2

• Paul Wallace
  494 votes 63.33%
• Laura Elkinton
  283 votes 36.28%
• (3 Total Other Write-In Votes .38%)

Board Member; Turlock Unified School District; Area 4

• Mary Jackson
  1,394 votes 37.11%
• Travis Walsh
  985 votes 26.22%
• Susan Thomas
  805 votes 21.43%
• Eileen Hamilton
  560 votes 14.91%
• (12 Total Other Write-In Votes .32%)

Board Member; Turlock Unified School District; Area 6

• Jeffrey Cortinas
  1,668 votes 54.85%
• Keristofer Seryani
  1,341 votes 44.10%
• (32 Total Other Write-In Votes 1.05%)

Board Member; Yosemite Community College District; Area 1

• Margie Bulkin
  5,425 votes 51.2%
• Denise Springer
  5,071 votes 47.9%
• (90 Total Other Write-In Votes 0.9%, 3,329 Under Votes 23.9%, 1 Over Votes 0.0%)

Board Member; Yosemite Community College District; Area 2

• Nancy Hinton
  13,180 votes 58.13%
• Matt Erickson
  9,299 votes 41.01%
• (196 Total Other Write-In Votes .86%)

Board Member; Yosemite Community College District; Area 4

• Anne DeMartini
  7,716 votes 55.5%
• Penny Williams
  6,058 votes 43.6%
• (122 Total Other Write-In Votes 0.9%)

Board Member; Yosemite Community College District; Area 7

• Antonio Aguilar
  6,758 votes 40.22%
• Homero Mejia
  5,346 votes 31.81%
• John Tyler, Jr.
  4,559 votes 27.13%
• (141 Total Other Write-In Votes .84%)

Special District

Board Member; Oak Valley Hospital District (3 Elected)

• Chaitanya "Chet" Mahida
  8,952 votes 31.80%
• Edward Chock
  8,038 votes 28.56%
• Daniel Cummins
  6,618 votes 23.51%
• Kent Kushar
  4,387 votes 15.59%
• (152 Total Other Write-In Votes .54%)

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 A School Bond -- Salida Union School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 3,992 / 68.00% Yes votes ...... 1,879 / 32.00% No votes

Without increasing current tax rates, shall Salida Union School District improve campus security and student safety by constructing secure school entrances, exits and fencing; renovate classrooms and schools; repair leaky plumbing; and replace and upgrade electrical wiring to meet current fire safety codes by issuing $2.5 million in bonds with legal rates, an average tax levy of $0.005 per $100 of assessed valuation while the bonds are outstanding (averaging $200,000/year), annual audits and independent taxpayer oversight?

Measure B Cannabis Business License Tax -- City of Riverbank (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 4,481 / 69.31% Yes votes ...... 1,984 / 30.69% No votes

Shall the measure adopting an ordinance authorizing the City Council of the City of Riverbank to impose a business license tax at a rate of up to ten percent (10%) of gross receipts on cannabis businesses and dispensaries, to help fund general municipal services, be adopted?

Measure C Cannabis Business License Tax -- City of Oakdale (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 5,242 / 69.69% Yes votes ...... 2,280 / 30.31% No votes

Shall the measure adopting an ordinance authorizing the City Council of the City of Oakdale to impose a business license tax at a rate of up to fifteen percent (15%) of gross receipts on cannabis businesses and dispensaries, to help fund general municipal services, be adopted?

Measure D Student Health and Safety Bond Measure -- Modesto City Elementary School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 20,541 / 72.38% Yes votes ...... 7,840 / 27.62% No votes

To repair leaking roofs; improve fire, emergency, security camera systems; provide accessibility for students with disabilities; update cafeterias, plumbing, HVAC and electrical systems, shall Modesto City Elementary School District issue $74 million in bonds at legal interest rates, collecting about $3.7 million annually with rates approximately $28 per $100,000 assessed valuation while bonds are outstanding, with citizen oversight, annual audits, no funds for administrator salaries, all funds staying local?

Measure E Classroom/Science Lab Enhancement Bond Measure -- Modesto City Elementary School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 19,678 / 69.56% Yes votes ...... 8,611 / 30.44% No votes

To update classrooms/science labs to support quality instruction in math/science/reading/writing; replace aging portables with permanent classrooms; equip classrooms with technology preparing students for 21st-Century jobs, shall Modesto City Elementary School District issue $57 million in bonds at legal interest rates, collecting about $2.85 million annually with rates approximately $22 per $100,000 assessed valuation while bonds are outstanding, with citizen oversight, audits, no funds for administrators, all funds local?

Measure F Charter Amendment - Odd to Even Year Election Change -- City of Modesto (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 54,803 / 73.70% Yes votes ...... 19,555 / 26.30% No votes

To increase voter participation and to conform with State law, shall the City of Modesto Charter be amended to (1) hold future Modesto City Schools Board of Education elections in November of even-numbered years to coincide with State/Federal elections, and; (2) allow for a one-time, one-year extension of the terms of current Board of Education members?

Measure G School Bond -- Riverbank Unified School District (55% Approval Required)
Pass: 2,388 / 63.83% Yes votes ...... 1,353 / 36.17% No votes

Without increasing current tax rates, shall Riverbank Unified School District improve campus security and student safety; renovate, construct, equip, repair and improve classrooms and school facilities; repair/ replace leaky roofs; and replace and upgrade electrical wiring to meet current fire safety codes by issuing $19.1 million in bonds with legal rates, an average tax levy of 5.5 cents per $100 of assessed valuation while the bonds are outstanding (averaging $1.1 million/year), annual audits, and independent taxpayer oversight?

Measure W Cannabis Business License Tax -- City of Ceres (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 7,354 / 66.32% Yes votes ...... 3,735 / 33.68% No votes

Shall the measure adopting an ordinance authorizing the City Council of the City of Ceres to impose a business license tax at a rate of up to fifteen percent (15%) of gross receipts on cannabis businesses and dispensaries, to help fund general municipal services, be adopted?

Measure X Appoint Treasurer -- City of Ceres (Majority Approval Required)
Fail: 3,821 / 35.47% Yes votes ...... 6,952 / 64.53% No votes

Shall the measure making the office of the City Treasurer for the City of Ceres appointive, rather than elective, with the first appointment occurring upon the expiration of the term of the current City Treasurer, be adopted?

Measure Y Cannabis Business License Tax -- City of Patterson (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 3,552 / 64.95% Yes votes ...... 1,917 / 35.05% No votes

Shall the measure adopting an ordinance authorizing the City Council of the City of Patterson to impose a business license tax at a rate of up to fifteen percent (15%) of gross receipts on cannabis businesses and dispensaries, to help fund general municipal services, be adopted?

Measure Z Charter Amendment - Odd to Even Year Election Change -- City of Modesto (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 42,521 / 71.77% Yes votes ...... 16,728 / 28.23% No votes

To increase voter participation in City of Modesto elections and to conform with state law, shall the City of Modesto Charter be amended to: (1) change the date for the City's future, regular elections to November of even-numbered years to coincide with State/Federal elections, and; (2) allow for a one time, one-year extension of the terms of City Council members and the Mayor?