Election 2024 updates: Mayor Breed concedes to Lurie in SF mayor's race

San Francisco voters appear to be in favor of a plan to close the Upper Great Highway along Ocean Beach seven days a week, with preliminary results as of early Wednesday showing 52.92% in favor of Proposition K.

"Yes" votes lead in the race with 114,485 votes compared to 101,862 no votes.

The stretch of road with two lanes in each direction was already closed on weekends and holidays since a pilot program was implemented in 2022, following the road's closure during a COVID-19 shutdown. The pilot was set to expire at the end of 2025.

The Upper Great Highway runs along the coast from Sloat Boulevard to Lincoln Way. Vehicle traffic will be rerouted onto the Lower Great Highway parallel to the road.

The proposition was authored by District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar. One of her opponents, Matt Boschetto, started a political action committee to defeat the proposition.

Meanwhile, Melgar appears to have the edge in her reelection bid, leading 51.59% over Boschetto, who garnered 48.41% of the vote on the final round of ranked choice voting, according to the preliminary results in the race.

The California Coastal Commission will have to approve the permanent closure, which will still allow emergency vehicles and city Recreation and Park Department vehicles to access the road.

Lateefah Simon appears to be on her way to taking over Barbara Lee's District 12 Congressional seat.

Simon leads fellow Democrat Jennifer Tran 63% to 37% in early results Wednesday morning.

Simon, a BART board member, began her political career as a community organizer and was famously a mentee of Presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris.

California voters rejected Proposition 33, which aimed to expand local governments' ability to impose rent control to more types of housing.

With more than 70% of precincts reporting and more than 8 million votes cast, the measure was losing by a 2-1 margin by early Wednesday morning, according to results released by the California Secretary of State's Office.

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.

Price won the 2022 election with roughly 53 percent of the vote and became the first African American woman to hold the county's top prosecutor job.

At the time, she was clear about her reform-minded policies, including not tacking on enhancements to charges in order to win longer prison terms in criminal cases, not charging juveniles as adults and finding alternatives to prison or jail for certain defendants, among other things.

Soon after she took office opponents launched a petition drive and ultimately gathered enough signatures to place her name on a recall ballot, alleging that her progressive reform platform was too soft on criminals and led to increasing crime -- making her the first district attorney in the county's history to face a recall.

If the results hold, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will appoint someone to replace Price until the end of her term in two years. A permanent replacement would be selected by voters in the next regularly scheduled election.

Recall supporters have collectively spent roughly $2.6 million to remove her from office via two primary campaign finance committees -- Save Alameda For Everyone and Supporters of Recall Pamela Price, which has significant financial support from several East Bay police officers' unions, including Oakland's and the Deputy Sheriffs Association of Alameda County, along with PG&E and Philip Dreyfuss, a wealthy hedge fund executive and Piedmont resident.

Price and her supporters launched the campaign committees Protect the Win for Public Safety, Oppose the Recall of DA Price, which raised more than $166,000, Protect the Protect the Win for Public Safety, Oppose the Recall of DA Price, which raised more than $272,000.

Almost all the money raised by Re-invest in Fair Elections came from the Heising-Simons Foundation, a Los Altos-based philanthropical organization that supports environmental and human rights causes, among other things.

Spokespeople for the pro-recall and Price campaigns didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Early results show voters supporting recall of Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.