The outcome of Prop. 1., Governor Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond measure, is nail-bitingly close with 50.1% of voters in favor and 49.9% opposed, according to the latest results provided by the secretary of state’s office Friday afternoon.
At that time, there were approximately 13,000 votes, in a state with 22 million registered voters, standing in between the proposition passing and failing.
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The proposition is one of the only remaining too-close-to-call races relevant to Los Angeles County voters.
Three Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors incumbents Holly Mitchell, Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger all held onto clear majorities, setting them up to win their respective seats in the primary.
Fourth District Supervisor Hahn declared victory Friday, saying there are enough ballots counted for her to claim an outright win over former sheriff Alex Villanueva and one other candidate.
Hahn held a 27 percentage point lead, with 57% of the vote as compared to 29% of the vote for the one-time sheriff of L.A. County. John Cruikshank, mayor of Rancho Palos Verdes, was in third place, with 14.2% of the vote.
Hahn is winning in 29 out of 32 cities in the Fourth District, according to her campaign consultant David Jacobson. In her statement, Hahn said she defeated “a two-time loser,” referring to Villanueva’s loss of the sheriff’s seat to Robert Luna in November 2022 after serving one term.
Villanueva, reached at his home on Friday night, said he was not conceding and was waiting for all the numbers to be crunched by the Los Angeles County registrar’s office. But making up a nearly 30 percentage point deficit is improbable.
“I am not agreeing with her,” he said. “No, I’m not conceding. She seems very eager to move on.”
In the L.A. County District Attorney race progressive incumbent George Gascon is poised to face off against tough-on-crime former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman.
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