Every vote counts: Close ballot measure races in California
Ballotpedia covered the results of 135 local ballot measures across the state of California in 2017. Eighty-seven of those measures were approved (64.4 percent), and 48 were defeated (35.6 percent). Of this year’s ballot measures, we have identified 12 races that were decided with a margin of less than 2 percent. Nine of those close calls were parcel tax measures, which require a supermajority vote of 66.67 percent under state law. The other three close calls were a rent control measure in Santa Rosa, a measure to change the office of treasurer to an appointed position in Brawley, and a library bond issue in Whittier.
Close races
The following are results of twelve ballot measure races in California that were decided by a vote margin of less than 2 percent:
- A parcel tax measure was approved by a margin of 14 votes in Lake County Fire Protection District.
- The approval of a $288 parcel tax in the Arcadia Unified School District of Los Angeles County was decided by 69 votes.
- A parcel tax measure in Greenfield was approved by a margin of 15 votes.
- A library bond issue, Measure L, was defeated in the city of Whittier in Los Angeles County by a vote margin of .22 percent, or 14 votes.
- Solano County voters approved a parcel tax measure for the Greater Vallejo Recreation District by a margin 1.3 percent.
- A parcel tax measure for Humboldt County Resort Improvement District 1 was approved by a margin of 1 vote.
- Voters in Brawley approved Measure X to change the office city treasurer to an appointed position by a margin of 30 votes.
- A Sonoma Valley Health Care District parcel tax was defeated by a margin of 64 votes.
- A parcel tax measure was defeated in the San Mateo-Foster City Elementary School District by a margin of 288 votes.
- Santa Clara County voters defeated a parcel tax measure for Los Gatos Union School District by a margin of 77 votes.
- A parcel tax measure for Oak Park Unified School District was defeated in Ventura County by a margin of 25 votes.
- In Santa Rosa, a rent control veto referendum, Measure C, was defeated by a margin of 1.16 percent, or 391 votes, in June. The veto referendum was placed on the ballot after opponents to the city council's rent control ordinance gathered enough signatures to force a vote.
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