It will likely take days and possibly weeks to know who won in some districts, due to how slowly California counts votes. The extended process begins with a large, initial reporting of votes, which reflects ballots that were cast in advance of Election Day.
LOCAL 2024 ELECTION RACES - SEE RESULTS HERE
CALIFORNIA SENATE
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff has won the California U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The Los Angeles-area congressman defeated Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey after a low-key campaign. Control of the Senate is in play this year. But Democrats were favored to easily hold this seat in liberal-leaning California, where a Republican hasn't won a Senate race since 1988. Still, the contest represented a turning point in California politics, which was long dominated by Feinstein, former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and other veteran Democrats. Feinstein died last year at 90.
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITIONS
Prop 2: School Bond
Authorizes $10 billion in general obligation bonds for repair, upgrade, and construction of facilities at K-12 public schools (including charter schools), community colleges, and career technical education programs, including for improvement of health and safety conditions and classroom upgrades. Requires annual audits.
Prop 3: Constitutional right to marriage -- PASS
Amends California Constitution to recognize fundamental right to marry, regardless of sex or race. Removes language in California Constitution stating that marriage is only between a man and a woman.
Prop 4: Climate Bond
Authorizes $10 billion in general obligation bonds for water, wildfire prevention, and protection of communities and lands. Requires annual audits.
Prop 5: Affordable Housing Bond
Allows approval of local infrastructure and housing bonds for low- and middle-income Californians with 55% vote. Accountability requirements.
Prop 6: Involuntary Servitude
Amends the California Constitution to remove current provision that allows jails and prisons to impose involuntary servitude to punish crime (i.e., forcing incarcerated persons to work).
Prop 32: Minimum Wage
Raises minimum wage as follows: For employers with 26 or more employees, to $17 immediately, $18 on January 1, 2025. For employers with 25 or fewer employees, to $17 on January 1, 2025, $18 on January 1, 2026.
Prop 33: Rent Control
Repeals Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, which currently prohibits local ordinances limiting initial residential rental rates for new tenants or rent increases for existing tenants in certain residential properties.
Prop 34: Prescription Drugs
Requires certain providers to spend 98% of revenues from federal discount prescription drug program on direct patient care. Authorizes statewide negotiation of Medi-Cal drug prices.
Prop 35: Medi-Cal Funding -- PASS
Makes permanent the existing tax on managed health care insurance plans, which, if approved by the federal government, provides revenues to pay for Medi-Cal health care services.
Prop 36: Crime Penalties -- PASS
Allows felony charges for possessing certain drugs and for thefts under $950, if defendant has two prior drug or theft convictions.
CALIFORNIA HOUSE RACES
Congressional Dist. 12 Race
Democrat Lateefah Simon won election to a U.S. House seat representing California on Friday. The district in northern California is the most Democratic district in the entire country, according to the Cook Partisan Voter Index. Simon, born legally blind, has served on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors since 2016 and was elected president of the board in 2020. Her candidacy for the House was endorsed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom last year. She defeated fellow Democrat Jennifer Tran. The Associated Press declared Simon the winner at 8:19 p.m. EST.
Congressional Dist. 16 Race
Democrat Sam Liccardo won election to a U.S. House seat representing California on Wednesday. He defeated state Assemblymember Evan Low, another Democrat, in the highly competitive race. Liccardo served as San Jose mayor and council member for 16 years before winning his congressional seat. Liccardo will succeed Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo, who decided to not seek reelection, in the heavily Democratic 16th District. The district includes the southern half of the San Francisco Peninsula and part of San Jose. The Associated Press declared Liccardo the winner at 7:57 p.m. EST.
SF MAYOR
San Francisco Mayor London Breed conceded to challenger Daniel Lurie on Thursday and said she called to congratulate the Levi Strauss heir.
Breed, the city's first Black woman mayor, said on social media that she planned a smooth transition for her successor.
"Being Mayor of San Francisco has been the greatest honor of my lifetime. I'm beyond grateful to our residents for the opportunity to serve the City that raised me," Breed said on X.
Unofficial results in the 14th round of ranked choice voting released Thursday showed Lurie with 27.85% of first-choice votes and Breed with 24.54%.
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THAO RECALL
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was behind in the election to recall her from office based on early returns from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters on Tuesday night.
With a vote of 64.22% in favor of the recall versus 35.78% opposed -- with 35,367 votes counted out of the city's 252,382 register voters -- Thao appeared to have a steep climb to victory as of about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday.
PRICE RECALL
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was behind in the early vote tally for the election to recall her from office, based on returns Tuesday from the county Registrar of Voters' Office.
Price was behind with about 35% of votes counted so far against the recall, compared to 64.68% for it at about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, with just under 150,000 votes counted out of the county's total of 960,307 registered voters.
Voter Information, Results by County
Alameda County
Contra Costa County
Marin County
Napa County
San Francisco
Santa Clara County
San Mateo County
Solano County
Sonoma County
The Associated Press and Bay City News Service contributed to this report.
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