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November 8, 2022 Election

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County Results as of Dec 5 12:15pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (3680/3680)
43.9% Countywide Voter Turnout (2,456,701/5,601,835)
Statewide Results as of Jan 18 3:44pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (25554/25554)
50.8% Statewide Voter Turnout (11,146,620/21,940,274)

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    State Executive

    Governor

    Lieutenant Governor

    Secretary of State

    Controller

    Treasurer

    Attorney General

    Insurance Commissioner

    State Superintendent of Public Instruction

    State Board of Equalization; District 3

    US Legislature

    United States Senator; Full Term

    United States Senator; Unexpired Short Term

    United States Representative; District 36

    State Senate

    State Senator; District 24

    State Assembly

    Member of the State Assembly; District 51

    Judicial

    California Supreme Court (Yes/No)

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

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

    Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 3 (Yes/No)

    Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 4 (Yes/No)

    Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 5 (Yes/No)

    Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 6 (Yes/No)

    Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 7 (Yes/No)

    Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 2, Division 8 (Yes/No)

    Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 118Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Melissa Hammond
      1149236 votes 61.7%
    • Carolyn "Jiyoung" Park
      713333 votes 38.3%

    Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 151Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Patrick Hare
      1103644 votes 59.7%
    • Karen A. Brako
      746554 votes 40.3%

    Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 60Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Abby Baron
      1026777 votes 55.3%
    • Anna Slotky Reitano
      829766 votes 44.7%

    Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 67Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Fernanda Maria Barreto
      1000532 votes 53.1%
    • Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes
      884004 votes 46.9%

    Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 70Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Holly L. Hancock
      1114500 votes 58.6%
    • Renee Yolande Chang
      786868 votes 41.4%

    Judge of the Superior Court; County of Los Angeles; Office 90Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Melissa Lyons
      1091579 votes 59.6%
    • Leslie Gutierrez
      739192 votes 40.4%

    County

    Sheriff; County of Los AngelesClick here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Robert Luna
      1370837 votes 61.3%
    • Alex Villanueva
      867029 votes 38.7%

    Supervisor; County of Los Angeles; Supervisorial District 3Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Lindsey Horvath
      258315 votes 53.0%
    • Bob Hertzberg
      229358 votes 47.0%

    School

    Member, Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Seat 2Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Steven Veres
      633509 votes 66.3%
    • Jason R. Aula
      175640 votes 18.4%
    • Glenn Trujillo Bailey
      146911 votes 15.4%

    Member, Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Seat 4Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Sara Hernandez
      524690 votes 54.1%
    • Ernest H. Moreno
      268333 votes 27.7%
    • Christine T. Lamonica
      176595 votes 18.2%

    Member, Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Seat 6Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Gabriel Buelna
      680011 votes 73.1%
    • Robert L. Payne
      250773 votes 26.9%

    Member, Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Seat 7Click here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites

    • Kelsey Iino
      601465 votes 62.1%
    • Nancy Pearlman
      255367 votes 26.4%
    • Mark Dutton
      111214 votes 11.5%

    Member, Board of Education; Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School DistrictClick here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites (4 Elected)

    • Laurie Lieberman
      20371 votes 17.6%
    • Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein
      18921 votes 16.4%
    • Stacy Rouse
      18754 votes 16.2%
    • Alicia Mignano
      18450 votes 16.0%
    • Esther Hickman
      11868 votes 10.3%
    • Angela Digaetano
      11226 votes 9.7%
    • Miles Warner
      11121 votes 9.6%
    • Keith Coleman
      4801 votes 4.2%

    City

    Member, City Council; City of Santa MonicaClick here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites (3 Elected)

    • Caroline M. Torosis
      17741 votes 19.1%
    • Jesse Zwick
      16148 votes 17.4%
    • Lana Negrete
      11654 votes 12.5%
    • Natalya Zernitskaya
      10684 votes 11.5%
    • Armen Melkonians
      10214 votes 11.0%
    • Ellis Raskin
      10197 votes 11.0%
    • Albin Gielicz
      4018 votes 4.3%
    • Whitney Bain
      3428 votes 3.7%
    • Troy Harris
      3394 votes 3.6%
    • Samantha Mota
      2485 votes 2.7%
    • Jonathan Mann
      1518 votes 1.6%
    • Arthur Jeon
      1507 votes 1.6%

    Member, Rent Control Board; City of Santa MonicaClick here for more info on this contest including known links to other sites (3 Elected)

    • Ericka Lesley
      20615 votes 36.3%
    • Daniel S. Ivanov
      18903 votes 33.2%
    • Kurt Gonska
      17334 votes 30.5%

    State Propositions

    Proposition 1 Reproductive Freedom
    Pass: 7,176,888 / 66.9% Yes votes ...... 3,553,564 / 33.1% No votes
    Amends California Constitution to expressly include an individual's fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes the fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This amendment does not narrow or limit the existing rights to privacy and equal protection under the California Constitution. Fiscal Impact: No direct fiscal effect because reproductive rights already are protected by state law.

    Proposition 26 Sports Betting in Casinos
    Fail: 3,514,597 / 33.0% Yes votes ...... 7,129,127 / 67.0% No votes
    Also allows: sports wagering at certain horseracing tracks; private lawsuits to enforce certain gambling laws. Directs revenues to General Fund, problem-gambling programs, enforcement. Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues, possibly reaching tens of millions of dollars annually. Some of these revenues would support increased state regulatory and enforcement costs that could reach the low tens of millions of dollars annually.

    Proposition 27 Online Sports Betting
    Fail: 1,906,342 / 17.7% Yes votes ...... 8,849,206 / 82.3% No votes
    Allows Indian tribes and affiliated businesses to operate online/ mobile sports wagering outside tribal lands. Directs revenues to regulatory costs, homelessness programs, nonparticipating tribes. Fiscal Impact: Increased state revenues, possibly in the hundreds of millions of dollars but not likely to exceed $500 million annually. Some revenues would support state regulatory costs, possibly reaching the mid-tens of millions of dollars annually.

    Proposition 28 Funding Arts and Music Education
    Pass: 6,924,618 / 64.4% Yes votes ...... 3,827,971 / 35.6% No votes
    Provides additional funding from state General Fund for arts and music education in all K+12 public schools (including charter schools). Fiscal Impact: Increased state costs of about $1 billion annually, beginning next year, for arts education in public schools.

    Proposition 29 Kidney Dialysis Clinics
    Fail: 3,364,407 / 31.6% Yes votes ...... 7,281,201 / 68.4% No votes
    Requires physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant on site during treatment. Requires clinics to: disclose physicians' ownership interests; report infection data. Fiscal Impact: Increased state and local government costs likely in the tens of millions of dollars annually.

    Proposition 30 Income Tax on Millionaires for Electric Cars
    Fail: 4,560,488 / 42.4% Yes votes ...... 6,203,810 / 57.6% No votes
    Allocates tax revenues to zero-emission vehicle purchase incentives, vehicle charging stations, and wildfire prevention. Fiscal Impact: Increased state tax revenue ranging from $3.5 billion to $5 billion annually, with the new funding used to support zero-emission vehicle programs and wildfire response and prevention activities.

    Proposition 31 Yes or No to Banning Flavored Tobacco Products
    Pass: 6,803,431 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 3,923,385 / 36.6% No votes
    A "Yes" vote approves, and a "No" vote rejects, a 2020 law prohibiting retail sale of certain flavored tobacco products. Fiscal Impact: Decreased state tobacco tax revenues ranging from tens of millions of dollars annually to around $100 million annually.

    Local Measures

    Measure A Charter Amendment -- County of Los Angeles (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 1633918 / 71.8% Yes votes ...... 640361 / 28.2% No votes
    Question needed.

    Measure C Cannabis Business -- County of Los Angeles (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 1323160 / 60.2% Yes votes ...... 875617 / 39.8% No votes
    Question needed.

    Measure CS Property Transfer Tax -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 27282 / 73.9% Yes votes ...... 9651 / 26.1% No votes
    Shall the measure adding Santa Monica Municipal Code Chapter 4.90 to establish designated funds for schools, homelessness prevention, and affordable housing, and an eleven-member resident oversight committee, and amending Chapter 6.96 to provide a third tier transfer tax rate of $56.000 per $1,000 of value for property transfers of $8,000,000 or more, providing an estimated $50,000,000 annually for homelessness prevention, affordable housing, and schools, until repealed, be adopted?

    Measure DT Property Tax -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Fail: 12376 / 34.6% Yes votes ...... 23413 / 65.4% No votes
    Shall the measure to enhance the City of Santa Monica's general governmental services by increasing the one-time tax on real property sales over $8 million, and establishing an additional incremental tax of $25.00 per $1000 of the value in excess of $8 million, excepting transfers: per State law, involving tax-exempt charitable organizations, and certain ground leases; providing an estimated $12-25 million annually through February 28, 2033, subject to a 5-year extension by Council supermajority vote, be adopted?

    Measure DTS Real Property Transfer Tax -- City of Santa Monica (Advisory Vote Only)
    Pass: 19670 / 58.1% Yes votes ...... 14161 / 41.9% No votes
    ADVISORY VOTE ONLY: If the "Comprehensive Real Property Transfer Tax Measure" is enacted, should at least 30% of its additional revenue be used for housing assistance to protect seniors and low-income families from housing displacement, with the remainder of the additional revenue to be used for homelessness services; behavioral health services, public safety and emergency response teams for City streets and parks; reopening public libraries; after-school programs; and crossing guards near public schools?

    Measure EM Charter Amendment -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 20543 / 59.4% Yes votes ...... 14070 / 40.6% No votes
    Shall the City Charter be amended to allow the Rent Control Board to disallow or modify annual general rent adjustments for rent controlled units during a declared state of emergency by the President of the United States, the Governor, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Officer, or the City Council or Director of Emergency Services while maintaining the landlord's ability to petition for a rent adjustment per Section 1805 of the City Charter?

    Measure GS Transient Occupancy Tax -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 19467 / 53.5% Yes votes ...... 16926 / 46.5% No votes
    To address homelessness, improve 911 emergency response times and neighborhood police protection, make public areas safer and cleaner, including streets, sidewalks, parks, and the beach, and provide other vital City services, shall the City of Santa Monica increase the transient occupancy tax + which is paid entirely overnight visitors + by 1% for hotels and motels, and by 3% for home- shares, providing approximately $4.1 million annually, until ended by voters, with all funds benefitting Santa Monica?

    Measure HMP Cannabis Business Tax -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 23646 / 66.2% Yes votes ...... 12056 / 33.8% No votes
    Shall the measure to establish a business tax on every licensed cannabis business (including adult-use nonmedicinal cannabis retailers, distribution, manufacturing, cultivation, laboratory testing, or any other licensed cannabis business) and retailers of products containing psychoactive cannabinoids including derived from industrial hemp, up to 10% of gross receipts on cannabis and/hemp-derived psychoactive products sold in the City, which all together could generate an estimated $3-5 million annually until repealed be adopted?

    Measure LA Bond -- Los Angeles Community College District (55% Approval Required)
    Pass: 700587 / 62.3% Yes votes ...... 423856 / 37.7% No votes
    To repair/upgrade local community colleges, classrooms, water pipes, sewer/gas lines, technology, science labs for nurses, paramedics, firefighters, veterans; prepare students for jobs/university transfer; remove asbestos, lead paint; acquire, construct, repair facilities, sites, equipment; shall Los Angeles Community College District's measure authorizing $5,300,000,000 in bonds at legal rates, levying $25 per $100,000 of assessed valuation, generating $345,000,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, be adopted, requiring oversight, all funds used locally?

    Measure PB Charter Amendment -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 20350 / 60.0% Yes votes ...... 13560 / 40.0% No votes
    Shall the City Charter be amended to: (a) expand eligibility requirements for service on the City's Personnel Board to include, in addition to City of Santa Monica ("City") residents, residents of Los Angeles County that are employed full-time within the City, or own real property in the City, or have been issued a business license by the City; and (b) reduce the term of service for Personnel Board members from five to four years?

    Measure RC Rent Control -- City of Santa Monica (Majority Approval Required)
    Pass: 20149 / 58.7% Yes votes ...... 14166 / 41.3% No votes
    Shall the City Charter be amended to require intended owner occupancy of rent- controlled units for two years before tenant eviction; require owner occupancy within 60 days of vacancy; reduce the maximum Annual General Adjustment from 6% to 0.8% from 2/1/23 through 8/31/23, or average not to exceed 3%, with a 3% maximum Annual General Adjustment thereafter; and require elections only if the number of qualified candidates exceeds the number of open Board positions?

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