SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters are choosing a new governor on Tuesday, Nov. 3, along with seven other statewide officers, every seat in the state Assembly, half the state Senate, all 52 members of the U.S. House from California, and 17 statewide propositions.
Polls are open until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Anyone in line at 8 p.m. can still vote. Statewide results will appear on our live results page within minutes of each release from the California Secretary of State, starting shortly after polls close.
How to vote
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In person: Polling places and vote centers are open until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Find yours through your county elections office or at sos.ca.gov.
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Mail ballots: Return a completed ballot to a drop box, vote center or polling place by 8 p.m. Tuesday. A ballot sent by mail counts if it is postmarked by Nov. 3 and reaches the county within seven days.
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Not registered? Eligible Californians can register and vote on Election Day at a vote center or polling place, using a conditional voter registration.
Statewide offices
Governor
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Xavier Becerra, Democrat
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Steve Hilton, Republican
Lieutenant Governor
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Fiona Ma, Democrat
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Gloria Romero, Republican
Attorney General
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Rob Bonta, Democrat
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Michael E. Gates, Republican
Secretary of State
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Shirley N. Weber, Democrat
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Donald P. (Don) Wagner, Republican
Superintendent of Public Instruction (nonpartisan)
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Richard Barrera
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Sonja Shaw
The ballot also includes Controller, Treasurer, Insurance Commissioner and the four Board of Equalization districts.
The propositions
Seventeen statewide measures are on the ballot. Each needs a simple majority to pass. Their official titles, in short:
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Prop. 1: Bonds for housing affordability programs
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Prop. 2: Increases the state’s rainy day fund
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Prop. 3: Permanent funding for schools and health care by extending the existing tax on high incomes
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Prop. 4: Repeals the ban on public funding of election campaigns
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Prop. 5: Changes the recall process for statewide officers
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Prop. 37: Loan program for middle-income buyers of qualified new homes
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Prop. 38: Bonds for immunology medical research
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Prop. 39: Requires government-issued identification to vote
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Prop. 40: One-time tax on certain taxpayers
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Prop. 41: Limits new state taxes that fall outside the state spending limit and requires audits of new special taxes
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Prop. 42: Bars new state personal property taxes and certain retroactive taxes
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Prop. 43: Limits voters’ ability to raise revenue for local government services
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Prop. 44: Requires community health clinics to spend 90% of revenue on program services
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Prop. 45: Changes environmental review for certain projects
When to expect results
The Secretary of State’s first release after 8 p.m. is usually early mail ballots counted before Election Day. Results from ballots cast in person follow through the night as counties report. California counts slowly: mail ballots arriving through Nov. 10 and provisional ballots are counted after Election Day, and close races can change for days or weeks. Counties certify in early December and the Secretary of State certifies the statewide results by Dec. 11.
We will update our live results page through the night and through the count. Races are marked as called only when our editors are confident of the outcome.
About our election coverage
Our California Times is covering election night with a live results hub for the whole state. It carries every statewide race and proposition, updated within minutes of each Secretary of State release, with notes from our reporters on what the numbers mean.
The hub is part of a local election model designed by Kushan Liyana Arachchige, Chief AI Officer of Times Media Service. It runs on 60 Times Media Service news sites across California, each with its own page for its own community.
“A statewide election is really thousands of local ones,” Liyana Arachchige said. “We built this so a reader anywhere in California can see the governor’s race and the propositions on one page, and then go one click deeper to the council, school board and local measures on their own ballot.”
Our election team
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Brody Cassidy, California politics reporter, covers the statewide races.
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Thurman Boiles, Sacramento reporter, covers the propositions and the Legislature.
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Robert Stine, editor, edits the coverage.
