Election results for California propositions
Update, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 5)
Note: The voting outcomes below are unofficial and don’t include all vote-by-mail ballots. The City and County of San Francisco plans to continue to release updated counts each day at 4 p.m. The Santa Clara County registrar of voters updated election results at 5 p.m. today, and Alameda County updates are expected at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
From soda taxes to minimum wage hikes, Bay Area voters had a lot to weigh in on. We’ve selected some of the most important and interesting local ballot measures below.
According to the Alameda County Registrar, updated results are expected to be announced by 5 p.m. Thursday.
, appears to have passed with 70 percent approval, doubling the transportation sales tax to 1 percent.
The money raised from Measure BB will go to Alameda County’s 30-Year Transportation Expenditure Plan, which will expand and modernize BART in Alameda County; improve transit connections to jobs and schools; fix roads, improve highways and increase bicycle and pedestrian safety; reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality; and keep senior, student and disabled fares affordable. The measure needed two-thirds approval to pass.
On Wednesday, the No on Measure D campaign released a statement criticizing the measure:
“Soda tax activists have been venue shopping for more than five years … Berkeley was low-hanging fruit, and doesn’t look like mainstream America. If politicians want to stake their reputations on what Berkeley did, they do so at their own risk.”
By approving Measure Z, an existing parcel tax and parking tax will be extended for 10 years to improve public safety in Oakland. The money will be used to fund programs aimed at reducing gun violence, robberies and homicides, as well as funding improving 9-1-1 response times and supporting at-risk youth and young adults.
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