Combined ballot

See Also:   Information for the County of Humboldt
(Elections Office, local League of Women Voters, links to other county election sites)

Treasurer

• Fiona Ma, Democratic
  6,287,076 votes 58.8%
• Jack M. Guerrero, Republican
  4,405,781 votes 41.2%

Governor

• Gavin Newsom, Democratic
  6,470,104 votes 59.2%
• Brian Dahle, Republican
  4,462,914 votes 40.8%

Lieutenant Governor

• Eleni Kounalakis, Democratic
  6,418,119 votes 59.7%
• Angela E. Underwood Jacobs, Republican
  4,332,602 votes 40.3%

Secretary of State

• Shirley N. Weber, Democratic
  6,462,164 votes 60.1%
• Rob Bernosky, Republican
  4,298,530 votes 39.9%

Controller

• Malia M. Cohen, Democratic
  5,936,856 votes 55.3%
• Lanhee J. Chen, Republican
  4,789,345 votes 44.7%

Attorney General

• Rob Bonta, Democratic
  6,339,441 votes 59.1%
• Nathan Hochman, Republican
  4,390,428 votes 40.9%

Insurance Commissioner

• Ricardo Lara, Democratic
  6,355,915 votes 59.9%
• Robert Howell, Republican
  4,249,391 votes 40.1%

State Board of Equalization; District 2

• Sally J. Lieber, Democratic
  2,146,948 votes 69.8%
• Peter Coe Verbica, Republican
  927,700 votes 30.2%

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

• Tony K. Thurmond
  5,681,318 votes 63.7%
• Lance Ray Christensen
  3,237,785 votes 36.3%

Judicial

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

• Therese M. Stewart
  80.3% Yes (1,184,234) 19.7% No (290,036)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 3 (Yes/No)

• Alison M. Tucher
  80.0% Yes (1,171,137) 20.0% No (293,229)
• Victor A. Rodriguez
  79.1% Yes (1,152,490) 20.9% No (303,740)
• Carin T. Fujisaki
  79.7% Yes (1,151,100) 20.3% No (293,733)
• Ioana Petrou
  78.5% Yes (1,131,991) 21.5% No (309,142)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 4 (Yes/No)

• Tracie L. Brown
  80.8% Yes (1,166,496) 19.2% No (277,431)
• Jeremy M. Goldman
  77.6% Yes (1,112,130) 22.4% No (320,594)

Justice, California State Court of Appeal; District 1, Division 5 (Yes/No)

• Teri L. Jackson
  80.1% Yes (1,156,097) 19.9% No (287,070)
• Gordon B. Burns
  78.5% Yes (1,119,838) 21.5% No (307,239)

California Supreme Court (Yes/No)

• Patricia Guerrero
  70.9% Yes (6,194,671) 29.1% No (2,537,627)
• Goodwin Liu
  69.3% Yes (5,908,904) 30.7% No (2,623,045)
• Martin J. Jenkins
  69.3% Yes (5,825,582) 30.7% No (2,576,601)
• Joshua P. Groban
  68.0% Yes (5,664,354) 32.0% No (2,661,668)

US Legislature

United States Senator; Unexpired Short Term

• Alex Padilla, Democratic
  6,559,308 votes 60.9%
• Mark P. Meuser, Republican
  4,212,450 votes 39.1%

United States Senator; Full Term

• Alex Padilla, Democratic
  6,621,621 votes 61.1%
• Mark P. Meuser, Republican
  4,222,029 votes 38.9%

United States Representative; District 2

• Jared Huffman, Democratic
  229,720 votes 74.4%
• Douglas Brower, Republican
  79,029 votes 25.6%

State Senate

State Senator; District 2

• Mike McGuire, Democratic
  283,689 votes 73.3%
• Gene Yoon, Republican
  103,333 votes 26.7%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 2

• Jim Wood, Democratic
  129,356 votes 68.9%
• Charlotte Svolos, Republican
  58,330 votes 31.1%

County

Treasurer; County of Humboldt

Recorder-County Clerk-Registrar of Voters; County of Humboldt

• Juan Pablo Cervantes
  22,542 votes 55.96%
• Tiffany Hunt Nielsen
  17,740 votes 44.04%

Council Member; City of Arcata (2 Elected)

• Meredith Matthews
  3,403 votes 34.68%
• Kimberley White
  3,306 votes 33.69%
• Raelina Krikston
  1,171 votes 11.93%
• Brett Watson
  743 votes 7.57%
• Jeffrey Scott Sterling
  705 votes 7.18%
• Dana Quillman
  485 votes 4.94%

Council Member; City of Blue Lake; 4 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Elise Germaine Scafani
  323 votes 36.91%
• Elizabeth Mackay
  316 votes 36.11%
• Christopher Edgar
  236 votes 26.97%

Council Member; City of Blue Lake; 2 Year Term (2 Elected)

• Angela Lee Shull
  359 votes 50.85%
• Alice Rose Finen
  347 votes 49.15%

Mayor; City of Eureka

• Kim Bergel
  5,618 votes 100.00%

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 1

• Leslie Castellano
  753 votes 100.00%

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 3

• G. Mario Fernandez
  1,065 votes 52.93%
• John Fullerton
  947 votes 47.07%

Council Member; City of Eureka; Ward 5

• Renee Contreras Deloach
  639 votes 53.47%
• Nicholas Kohl
  556 votes 46.53%

Mayor; City of Ferndale

• Randall John Cady
  370 votes 50.48%
• Stephen Avis
  286 votes 39.02%
• Cory Nunes
  77 votes 10.50%

Council Member; City of Ferndale (2 Elected)

• Jennifer Fisk-Becker
  442 votes 31.91%
• Alan "Skip" Jorgensen
  433 votes 31.26%
• Stuart Altschuler
  304 votes 21.95%
• Brenda Vait
  206 votes 14.87%

Council Member; City of Fortuna (3 Elected)

• Mike Johnson
  2,408 votes 26.54%
• Christina Mobley
  2,083 votes 22.96%
• Kyle Conley
  2,009 votes 22.14%
• Arlene Spiers
  1,547 votes 17.05%
• Henry Wotherspoon
  1,027 votes 11.32%

Council Member; City of Rio Dell (3 Elected)

• Robert Orr
  600 votes 35.07%
• Julie Woodall
  596 votes 34.83%
• Debra L. Garnes
  515 votes 30.10%

Council Member; City of Trinidad (3 Elected)

• Cheryl Kelly
  150 votes 31.78%
• Kati Breckenridge
  148 votes 31.36%
• Jack Tuttle
  135 votes 28.60%
• Michael J. Morgan
  39 votes 8.26%

School

Board Member; Blue Lake Union Elementary School District (3 Elected)

• Jace Baldosser
  563 votes 29.14%
• Kim Warvi
  559 votes 28.93%
• Daria Lowery
  542 votes 28.05%
• Deborah Heberly
  268 votes 13.87%

Board Member; Cutten Elementary School District (3 Elected)

• Mary C. Dewald
  1,287 votes 28.40%
• Dennis C. Reinholtsen
  1,250 votes 27.59%
• Andy Sundquist
  1,182 votes 26.09%
• Nancy Corran
  812 votes 17.92%

Trustee; Eureka City Schools; Trustee Area 5

• Jessica C. Rebholtz
  1,349 votes 61.99%
• Brian Payton
  827 votes 38.01%

Board Member; Ferndale Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Colton Brodt
  851 votes 24.30%
• Danella Barnes-Penman
  847 votes 24.19%
• Michael Warner
  576 votes 16.45%
• Jerry Hansen
  557 votes 15.91%
• Ken McCanless
  339 votes 9.68%
• Don Boyd
  332 votes 9.48%

Trustee; Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District; Trustee Area 3

• Martha E. McLaughlin
  134 votes 62.33%
• Tom O'Gorman
  81 votes 37.67%

Member; Humboldt County Board of Education; Trustee Area 3

• Thom McMahon
  4,430 votes 63.77%
• Jake Pickering
  2,517 votes 36.23%

Trustee; Redwoods Community College District; Trustee Area 1

• Lorraine Pedrotti
  3,457 votes 53.07%
• Roman Rubalcava
  3,057 votes 46.93%

Special District

Director; Humboldt Community Services District (2 Elected)

• Gregg Gardiner
  4,301 votes 39.14%
• Julie M. Ryan
  3,845 votes 34.99%
• Alan Bongio
  2,842 votes 25.86%

Director; Humboldt County Resort Improvement District Number 1 (2 Elected)

• Jack Hargrave
  210 votes 43.66%
• Michael Soluri
  166 votes 34.51%
• Philip Young
  105 votes 21.83%

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.

Measure L Utility Users Tax -- City of Arcata (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 3,633 / 65.53% Yes votes ...... 1,911 / 34.47% No votes

Shall the City of Arcata continue to impose a three percent (3%) utility users tax on the ordinary use of utility services in the City, including gas, electric, water, wastewater, and communications services; and, continue to impose an electricity users tax at the rate of 45% on residential customers whose electricity usage exceeds 600% over the established Baseline Allowance with a sole exception for households receiving an extended Medical Baseline from the electricity service supplier; automatically terminating in 14 years on November 30, 2036?

Measure M Ordinace Re Earth Flag -- City of Arcata (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 2,781 / 51.24% Yes votes ...... 2,646 / 48.76% No votes

Shall the City of Arcata enact the proposed ordinance entitled: Initiative to Enact Ordinance Requiring That Earth Flag Is Flown at Top of Flagpole? If adopted, this initiative would require the City of Arcata to fly the "Earth flag" above all other flags, including the official flags of the United States of America and the State of California, at the top of all City-owned flagpoles.

Measure N Essential Services Tax -- City of Ferndale (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 426 / 58.12% Yes votes ...... 307 / 41.88% No votes

To maintain and improve essential public safety services, including police services and nuisance abatement, shall the City of Ferndale measure to levy a three quarter-cent sales tax, raising approximately $104,000 annually, until March 31, 2031, with independent annual audits and all funds remaining in Ferndale, be adopted?

Measure O Transactions and Use Tax -- City of Rio Dell (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 477 / 52.82% Yes votes ...... 426 / 47.18% No votes

Shall the City of Rio Dell continue to impose a transaction and use tax at the reduced rate of (0.75%) after expiration of the currently enacted transaction and use tax (which is at 1.00% and set to expire on December 31, 2024), with all proceeds placed in the City's General Fund to be used for any governmental purpose? The tax authorized by this Ordinance is expected to generate $345,000 in annual revenue and, if approved by the voters, will take effect on January 1, 2025, and continue until repealed by the voters.

Measure P Tourist Occupance Tax -- City of Trinidad (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 143 / 76.47% Yes votes ...... 44 / 23.53% No votes

To maintain and improve essential public safety services, including law enforcement, roads, and essential services, shall the City of Trinidad measure to increase the existing tourist occupancy tax rate from 8% to 12%, raising an approximate additional amount of $65,000 annually; with all funds remaining in Trinidad, be adopted?

Measure Q General Obligation Bond -- Ferndale Unified School District (55% Approval Required)
Fail: 697 / 51.25% Yes votes ...... 663 / 48.75% No votes

To improve the quality of educational facilities; repair or replace leaky roofs; improve student access to computers and modern technology; replace outdated plumbing systems; and modernize outdated classrooms, restrooms and school facilities; shall Ferndale Unified School District's measure to issue $7,700,000 in bonds at legal interest rates be adopted, raising approximately $461,000 annually while bonds are outstanding averaging 6¢ per $100 of assessed value, with oversight, annual audits and all funds improving local schools?

Measure R Transactions & Use Tax -- City of Blue Lake (Majority Approval Required)
Pass: 296 / 56.70% Yes votes ...... 226 / 43.30% No votes

To maintain and improve essential City services, including recreation and public safety services, shall the City of Blue Lake measure to levy a one percent sales tax, raising approximately $25,000.00 annually, with independent annual audits and all funds remaining in Blue Lake, be adopted?