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California Props: 2022 Election results

7 would-be new laws are on the ballot for California voters.

CALIFORNIA, USA — If you’re having trouble viewing results, click here for our overall elections results page.

On Nov. 8, 2022, Californians will vote on seven statewide ballot propositions, each a would-be new law that needs voter approval to take effect.

Election results start to pour in after 8 p.m., but voters should keep in mind that these results are not the final numbers.

Results released on election night are unofficial results. Mail-in ballots will be coming in over the next week, and the last day for counties to certify results is on Dec. 8. 

View below for election updates on all seven of California's propositions.

California Prop 1 Results

Voters in heavily Democratic California approved a ballot measure to enshrine the right to abortion and contraception in the state constitution. 

Early returns for California’s Proposition 1 show 68% in favor. The measure was expected to pass but supporters said they wanted a large and decisive win to send a message that abortion is safe and legal in California. 

The California Republican Party and other opponents said the measure was expensive, extreme and unnecessary.

California Prop 26 and Prop 27 Results

Competing measures to allow sports gambling in California have lost big despite the most expensive ballot questions races in U.S. history.

Native American tribes and the gaming industry raised nearly $600 million to sway voters in competing efforts to try to capture a piece of a potential billion dollar market in the nation’s most populous state. The dueling measures would have allowed either sports betting at tribal casinos and horse tracks or on mobile devices and online. But California voters did not want a piece of that action. The amount raised more than doubled what Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride and delivery services spent in 2020 to prevent drivers from becoming employees.

California Prop 28 Results

California voters have 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. 

The measure that passed Tuesday could benefit public school programs that go beyond the traditional art, theater, dance and music classes to include graphic design, computer coding, animation, music composition and script writing. Fewer than a quarter of California public schools have a full-time arts or music education teacher, and some school offer no such classes at all. The campaign supporting the measure enjoyed widespread support and had no organized opposition, which was a rarity.

California Prop 29 Results

For the third time in three straight elections, California voters have 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. 

Nearly 70% of Californians had voted “no” on Proposition 29 in returns late Tuesday. It would have required a doctor, nurse practitioner or physicians’ assistant to be present during treatment at the state’s 600 outpatient dialysis facilities, which provide life-saving care to 80,000 people with kidney failure. 

Voters rejected two previous measures. All three were backed by unions representing health care workers, who say it’s a matter of patient safety.

California Prop 30 Results

California voters have rejected a new tax on the state’s richest residents. Proposition 30 would have boosted the tax on incomes above $2 million to help put more electric cars on the road. 

Backers of the measure said California badly needs a reliable source of money to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. 

The measure’s defeat marks a win for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who campaigned against it despite his support for electric cars. He called it a corporate giveaway for ridesharing companies like Lyft, which paid for the “yes” campaign.

California Prop 31 Results

California voters have approved of a law that would ban flavored tobacco products such as menthol cigarettes and strawberry gummy vaping juice. 

Voters on Tuesday decided to let the law go into effect after a campaign by tobacco companies got it on the ballot. Companies pushed hard to keep from being shut out of a large portion of California’s vast market. Meanwhile, supporters of the ban said the law was necessary to put a stop to the staggering rise in teen smoking. California is now the second state in the nation, after Massachusetts, to ban all flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes. .

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