California Politics

A week after Election Day, and several South Bay races are still too close to call. Among the, the race for Santa Clara County sheriff, and San Jose mayor.

Mail-in ballots have to be physically taken out of the envelope by someone and then each ballot has to be checked for signatures and errors before being submitted to the counting machine.

The Santa Clara County Registrar's office is investigating how dozens of completed ballots went missing and then were found near Highway 17. 

Oakland council member Loren Taylor maintained his lead over council member Sheng Thao in the race for mayor, but vote counting is not finished.

The effort to legalize sports betting in California ran headlong into a typical challenge for competing ballot measures as each was battered in a torrent of negative advertising that doomed both to spectacular failure in the most expensive ballot race in U.S. history.

As of Wednesday, Terry Wiley has 52% to Pamela Price's 48% in the race for the next Alameda County district attorney. Just 5,000 votes separate the two candidates.

Several Bay Area counties are providing live video feeds, more frequent data releases, and implementing new technology to increase confidence in the election process.

Brooke Jenkins claimed victory in the race to be San Francisco district attorney.

Several high-profile races around the Bay Area were too close to call as Election Night drew to a close.

California voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure backed by a celebrity lineup that included Barbra Streisand and Los Angeles-born rappers will.i.am and Dr. Dre that could pump as much as $1 billion a year from the state’s general fund into arts education.

California’s wealthiest residents won’t see a tax increase after voters rejected a measure Tuesday that would have boosted rates on incomes above $2 million to help put more electric cars on the roads.

For the third time in three straight elections, California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have mandated major changes to the operations of dialysis clinics that provide life-saving care to 80,000 people with kidney failure.

The most expensive ballot proposition gamble in U.S. history went bust Tuesday as California voters overwhelmingly rejected sports betting initiatives by Native American tribes and the gaming industry.

Democrat Gavin Newsom easily won a second term as California’s governor on Tuesday, beating a little-known Republican state senator by mostly ignoring him while campaigning against the policies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, two leading Republicans who like Newsom may run for president.

See who won and lost in each of California's 52 congressional districts in the 2022 midterm election.

See the results for California's seven ballot propositions in the 2022 election.

See the results for governor, US senator, attorney general, and California's other state offices.