Election 2026 · November 3, 2026 General Election
City of Los Angeles
The November 3, 2026 ballot has 4 races and 8 measures for the City of Los Angeles, counted across all districts. Charter Amendment SC is on the ballot only for voters in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Races
- Mayor
Karen Ruth Bass (incumbent), Nithya Raman
- City Attorney
John McKinney, Marissa Roy
- Member of the City Council, Council District 3
Timothy K. Gaspar, Barri Worth Girvan
- Member of the City Council, Council District 9
Estuardo Mazariegos, Jose Ugarte
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.