Three statewide measures touching local taxes, community clinics and environmental review are all losing, one of them by one of the widest margins on the ballot.
Prop 44 would have required certain nonprofit community clinics to spend at least 90% of revenue on health care services. The AP called it at 9:03 p.m. Tuesday, with No at 81.8%, per
KQED.
ABC7 showed 6,147,014 No votes to 1,364,227 Yes.
Prop 43 would have required a two-thirds vote for citizen-initiated local special taxes, reversing the effect of a 2017 California Supreme Court ruling that lets them pass by simple majority. It was failing 54.9% to 45% as of
KQED's 2:55 a.m. update; ABC7 had it at 55% No. Several Bay Area citizen measures this year, including Marin's childcare parcel tax, rely on that majority threshold.
Prop 45 would have amended the California Environmental Quality Act to fast-track "essential" projects such as housing, transit, water and clean energy, with a 365-day limit on reviews.
KQED had it failing 54.1% to 45.8%; ABC7 had 4,049,840 No to 3,437,913 Yes.
The AP had called Prop 44 but not Props 43 and 45 in KQED's results as of early Wednesday.
All results are unofficial election-night and early-morning counts as of Wednesday, Nov. 4. Counties keep counting mail and provisional ballots for days, and certification comes later, so margins can shift, especially in close contests.