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Election 2026 · November 3, 2026 General Election

Los Angeles ballot guide: November 3, 2026

Voters in the City of Los Angeles have 54 races and 26 measures on the November 3, 2026 ballot, counted across all districts: the City of Los Angeles (4 races, 8 measures), school and college districts (5 races, 2 measures), Los Angeles County (6 races, 2 measures), the State of California (28 races, 14 measures) and federal offices (11 races). Which of them appear on a ballot depends on the voter's address.

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Source: LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk election calendar, checked September 29, 2026. Vote centers and drop boxes: LA County locator.

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City of Los Angeles

Races

Measures

  • Proposition TE: Transfer tax exemption for Palisades Fire victims

    Proposition TE would exempt some Palisades Fire victims from the City's Measure ULA tax on high-value property sales. The exemption covers homes damaged or destroyed in the fire that are sold by the person who owned them on the day the fire started, between January 7, 2025 and January 6, 2030.

  • Charter Amendment LA: Budget, infrastructure and contracting changes

    Charter Amendment LA would move the City from a one-year to a two-year budget, require a long-term plan for infrastructure, and let the City Council change or eliminate the Board of Public Works. It would also drop the Charter's ban on the City mortgaging its property or running businesses, and change some contracting rules.

  • Charter Amendment PL: Planning appeals and approvals

    Charter Amendment PL would replace the City's seven Area Planning Commissions with one Neighborhood Appeals Commission and change how and when the City Council reviews planning decisions. It would also let the Council change the Charter's limit on building size by ordinance.

  • Charter Amendment EE: Ethics, elections and governance

    Charter Amendment EE would raise penalties for campaign finance violations, bar Ethics Commissioners from running for City or LAUSD office for five years after they leave, and make it harder to qualify a referendum. It would also give the Police Inspector General and the Fire Department's Independent Assessor more independence from their commissions, and let the City Council meet weekly instead of three days a week.

  • Charter Amendment PRK: Minimum budget for Recreation and Parks

    Charter Amendment PRK would double the minimum share of City money that must go to the Department of Recreation and Parks, phased in over ten years. It does not create a new tax, so the money would come from other parts of the City budget.

  • Charter Amendment PRT: Airports, Harbor, and Water and Power

    Charter Amendment PRT would change rules for the City's three self-funded departments: the airports, the Port and the Department of Water and Power. It lengthens the leases the airports and DWP can sign, requires more airport commissioners from near LAX and Van Nuys, writes the Port's spending on waterfront public access into the Charter, and makes Port lease applicants disclose effects on jobs.

  • Charter Amendment SC: Campaign finance rules for school board races

    Charter Amendment SC would delete the separate, detailed campaign finance rules for LAUSD Board of Education races from the City Charter and apply the rules for mayoral candidates instead, with some exceptions. It would let the City Council make later changes to these rules by ordinance. Only LAUSD voters decide it.

  • Initiative Ordinance FD: Half-cent sales tax for the Fire Department

    Initiative Ordinance FD would add a half-cent sales tax in the City of Los Angeles, raising the rate from 10.25% to 10.75%, to pay for the Los Angeles Fire Department. The City estimates it would raise about $345 million a year, and it would last until voters end it.

School and college districts

Races

Measures

  • Measure LV: Las Virgenes Unified parcel tax renewal

    Measure LV would renew the Las Virgenes Unified School District's $98-a-year tax on each parcel of property in the district for 12 more years, starting July 1, 2028, when the current tax expires. The ballot question says it raises about $2 million a year. The money would pay for core academic programs, class sizes, instructional materials and staff, not administrator pay.

  • Measure MM: Inglewood Unified $396 million school bond

    Measure MM would let the Inglewood Unified School District borrow up to $396 million by selling bonds to repair, upgrade and build school facilities, paid back through a property tax on land in the district. The district estimates the tax at $60 per $100,000 of assessed value each year through 2057-58. Bond money can only go to facilities and equipment, not salaries or other operating costs.

Los Angeles County

Races

Measures

  • County Measure A: Binding arbitration for County public safety unions

    County Measure A would change the Los Angeles County Charter so that contract disputes between the County and the unions for its firefighters, deputy sheriffs, lifeguards and some other public safety workers go to binding arbitration when bargaining stalls. A three-member arbitration panel would pick one side's final offer on each open issue, and its decision would be final without a vote of the Board of Supervisors. The measure also bans strikes by the covered workers.

  • County Measure E: County Ethics Commission independence and community investment set-aside

    County Measure E would rewrite the County Charter's rules for the Los Angeles County Ethics Commission and its staff office, the Office of Ethics Compliance. It sets how the seven commissioners are chosen, gives the Commission power to investigate and fine people who break County ethics, lobbying and campaign finance laws, and sets a minimum budget of $14.3 million a year starting in 2027-28. It also keeps the County's existing rule that at least 10% of locally generated unrestricted general fund revenue goes to community investment and alternatives to incarceration, and extends that duty to the elected County Executive.

State of California

Races

Measures

  • Proposition 1: $11.25 billion state housing bond

    Proposition 1 would let the state borrow $11.25 billion by selling bonds for housing. About $10 billion would go to state housing programs, mostly for building and renovating affordable rental housing, plus homebuyer help, farmworker, tribal and student housing, and housing infrastructure. The other $1.25 billion would fund home loans for veterans.

  • Proposition 2: Larger state rainy day fund

    Proposition 2 would change the State Constitution so the state keeps saving in its main rainy day fund until the fund equals 20% of General Fund taxes, up from 10% today, and saves more in years when revenue from investment gains is very high. It would also extend required extra debt payments from 2030 to 2040 and stop counting rainy day fund deposits toward the state spending limit until the money is taken out.

  • Proposition 3: Make high-income tax rates permanent

    Proposition 3 would make permanent the higher state income tax rates on high earners that voters first approved in 2012 (Proposition 30) and extended in 2016 (Proposition 55). Those rates are now set to expire in 2031. They apply to income over about $371,000 for single filers and $742,000 for joint filers (2025 levels, adjusted for inflation).

  • Proposition 4: Allow public funding of election campaigns

    Proposition 4 would lift the state ban on using public money to pay for candidates' campaigns, so state and local governments could create public campaign financing programs if they chose. It does not create any program itself. It sets broad rules: money meant for education, transportation or public safety can't be used, candidates must show broad support and accept spending limits, and public funds can't pay legal fees, fines or repay a candidate's own loans.

  • Proposition 5: Change how recalled state officials are replaced

    Proposition 5 would remove the second question from state recall elections, the one asking who should replace the official if recalled. If a Governor is recalled, the Lieutenant Governor would become Governor, either for the rest of the term or until voters elect a new Governor, depending on timing. Other recalled offices would be filled the way vacancies are filled now: a special election for legislators and appointment by the Governor for most other offices.

  • Proposition 37: State loans for middle-income buyers of new homes

    Proposition 37 would let the California Housing Finance Agency sell up to $25 billion in revenue bonds to fund a new down payment loan program. Loans could cover up to 17% of the price of a newly built home, and buyers would put down at least 3%. Buyers must live in the home, be state residents and earn no more than twice their area's typical income. Homeowners' loan payments, not the state, would repay the bonds.

  • Proposition 38: $8.4 billion bond for immunology research

    Proposition 38 would let the state borrow $8.4 billion by selling bonds for research on immunology and immunotherapy, with at least $4.2 billion for cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. About half would go to one research institute tied to a University of California campus, chosen by the Department of Public Health, and half to research grants. Treatments developed with the money would generally have to be sold in California at a 20% discount.

  • Proposition 39: Voter ID for in-person and mail voting

    Proposition 39 would require voters to show government-issued ID to vote in person. To vote by mail, voters would have to pick a government ID number for their registration and write its last four digits on each ballot envelope, and ballots would not count if the number does not match. It would also require elections officials to try to verify voters' citizenship and report on it each year, and the state to offer a free voter ID card.

  • Proposition 40: One-time 5% tax on billionaires

    Proposition 40 would impose a one-time state tax of 5% of net worth on billionaires who lived in California on January 1, 2026. The tax would be due in 2027, with an option to pay over five years at a higher cost. Real estate and most pensions and retirement accounts would be left out. Ninety percent of the money would go to health care and the rest to education and food aid.

  • Proposition 41: Audits for new state special taxes; spending limit rule

    Proposition 41 would bar new state taxes whose revenue is excluded from the state spending limit, and would cancel such taxes enacted after January 1, 2026. It would also require the State Auditor to review programs that a voter-proposed statewide special tax would fund, before the measure reaches the ballot, and to audit programs funded by new or increased state special taxes every four years. If it gets more yes votes than Proposition 40, the billionaire tax, Proposition 40 could be stopped even if a majority approves it.

  • Proposition 42: Ban new state taxes on personal property

    Proposition 42 would bar any new state tax on owning financial assets or other personal property, meaning everything people own other than real estate. It would also limit new state taxes that apply retroactively to things that happened before the tax took effect. It applies to taxes enacted or taking effect on or after January 1, 2026, and would cancel conflicting taxes enacted after that date. If it gets more yes votes than Proposition 40, the billionaire tax, Proposition 40 could be stopped even if a majority approves it.

  • Proposition 43: Two-thirds vote for voter-proposed local special taxes

    Proposition 43 would require a two-thirds vote to approve local special taxes that voters put on the ballot by petition, starting January 1, 2027. Special taxes are taxes dedicated to a specific purpose. Special taxes placed on the ballot by a city council or other local board already need two-thirds, but court decisions let voter-proposed special taxes pass with a simple majority. It would also bar local governments and voters from adopting new taxes based on property value, with exceptions already in the Constitution.

  • Proposition 44: Spending rule for community health clinics

    Proposition 44 would require private nonprofit safety net clinics, known as Federally Qualified Health Centers, to spend at least 90% of their revenue each year on health care services. Clinics that fall short would pay the state a penalty equal to the shortfall. They could get it back by complying within five years; otherwise the money would go to clinic workforce programs.

  • Proposition 45: Faster environmental review for some projects

    Proposition 45 would change the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for projects it defines as "essential," including most housing, transportation, water and health projects. Project applicants could choose tighter deadlines for environmental review, permits and lawsuits, a narrower review of alternatives, and court challenges that could stop only the part of a project that failed review rather than the whole project.

Federal

Races

  • U.S. Representative, 26th Congressional District

    Jacqui Irwin, Sam Gallucci

    Voters in the 26th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50). In the City of Los Angeles, that is parts of West Hills and Woodland Hills.

  • U.S. Representative, 27th Congressional District

    George Whitesides (incumbent), Jason Gibbs

    Voters in the 27th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50). In the City of Los Angeles, that is Granada Hills, most of Northridge and parts of Reseda, Lake Balboa and North Hills.

  • U.S. Representative, 28th Congressional District

    Judy Chu (incumbent), April A. Verlato

    Voters in the 28th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50). Only 154 City of Los Angeles residents live in this district, at the City's northeast edge.

  • U.S. Representative, 29th Congressional District

    Angélica María Dueñas, Luz Maria Rivas (incumbent)

    Voters in the 29th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50). In the City of Los Angeles, that is most of the east and northeast San Fernando Valley, from Sylmar and Pacoima to Van Nuys, North Hollywood and Toluca Lake.

  • U.S. Representative, 30th Congressional District

    Laura Friedman (incumbent), Scott Alan Meyers

    Voters in the 30th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50). In the City of Los Angeles, that is Hollywood, East Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, the Fairfax and Miracle Mile area, the Hollywood Hills and Sunland-Tujunga. The district also covers Burbank, Glendale and West Hollywood.

  • U.S. Representative, 32nd Congressional District

    Brad Sherman (incumbent), Larry Thompson

    Voters in the 32nd Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50). In the City of Los Angeles, that is most of the south and west San Fernando Valley, from Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Encino to Woodland Hills, Chatsworth and Porter Ranch, plus Bel Air and the Brentwood and Pacific Palisades area. The district also covers Malibu and Simi Valley.

  • U.S. Representative, 34th Congressional District

    Jimmy Gomez (incumbent), Angela Gonzales-Torres

    Voters in the 34th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50)

  • U.S. Representative, 36th Congressional District

    Ted W. Lieu (incumbent), Houston Brignano

    Voters in the 36th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50)

  • U.S. Representative, 37th Congressional District

    Sydney Kamlager-Dove (incumbent), Samantha Mota

    Voters in the 37th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50)

  • U.S. Representative, 43rd Congressional District

    Maxine Waters (incumbent), Cristian Morales

    Voters in the 43rd Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50)

  • U.S. Representative, 44th Congressional District

    Nanette Diaz Barragan (incumbent), Genevieve Angel

    Voters in the 44th Congressional District (new map approved with Proposition 50)