Voting-Clarity.org — November 3, 2026 Ballot (Los Angeles County)

Current as of October 19, 2026 · voting-clarity.org

Your sample ballot and official voter guide are the official documents; each ballot item report below links to its sources. If you don't have your sample ballot, look it up on the Los Angeles County Registrar's Interactive Sample Ballot.

This hub links to plain-language, sourced explanations of what is on Los Angeles County ballots for November 3, 2026. Each report explains one ballot item and makes no recommendation.

Your ballot depends on where you live. Check your sample ballot to see which of these you will vote on.

Why this page exists

Ballots are long, and many measures and races get little explanation beyond the sample ballots before Election Day. Voting-Clarity.org explains each one in plain language. It also brings forward details that sit in the official documents but are hard to find, such as parts of a measure's legal text that the official summary leaves out, so voters don't have to dig through hundreds of pages to make sense of it. Every report links to the official documents, so anyone can check every claim. Spot an error or have a question? Email contact@voting-clarity.org.

What's covered

Voting-Clarity.org covers every state proposition, the Los Angeles County measures and the City of Los Angeles measures, plus the lower-profile races that get the least attention: judges, county and city offices, and statewide offices such as Controller, Treasurer, Insurance Commissioner, Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Board of Equalization. High-profile races, such as Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General and Mayor of Los Angeles, already get wide news coverage, so they are not covered here. Voting Clarity also does not cover races for the State Assembly, State Senate or U.S. House of Representatives; your sample ballot lists them. As Voting-Clarity.org grows, it plans to cover measures and races beyond Los Angeles County.

Nonpartisan

Voting-Clarity.org does not tell anyone how to vote and does not endorse any measure, candidate or party. Every report follows the same rules: official sources first, the same questions for every candidate, each side's arguments in its own words, and no opinion polls. The reports are written by AI (Claude, made by Anthropic) and checked against their sources. Each report says whether Anthropic gave money to a campaign in that race or measure. In 2026 Anthropic gave $500,000 to the Yes campaign on Proposition 1, and $850,000 to the California Democratic Party and none to other parties; it gave nothing in any other race or measure listed here (California Secretary of State, Cal-Access, Anthropic PBC, as of October 16, 2026). The reports explain what is on the ballot; they are not legal advice.

State propositions

• Proposition 1 — Housing and Veterans Bond

• Proposition 2 — Bigger Rainy Day Fund

• Proposition 3 — Make top-earner income tax rates permanent

• Proposition 4 — Public Campaign Funding

• Proposition 5 — Recall Elections

• Proposition 37 — Down-payment loans for new homes

• Proposition 38 — Immunology research bond

• Proposition 39 — Voter ID and citizenship checks

• Proposition 40 — One-Time 5% Tax on Billionaires' Wealth

• Proposition 41 — Tax Audits and Spending-Limit Ban

• Proposition 42 — Ban on New Personal Property and Retroactive Taxes

• Proposition 43 — Two-thirds vote for citizen-proposed local taxes

• Proposition 44 — Community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on their mission

• Proposition 45 — Faster environmental review for "essential" projects

Statewide offices

• State Controller — Malia M. Cohen vs. Herb W. Morgan

• State Treasurer — Jennifer Hawks vs. Eleni Kounalakis

• Superintendent of Public Instruction — Richard Barrera vs. Sonja Shaw

• State Board of Equalization, District 3 — Mike Gipson vs. Samuel P. Sukaton

• Insurance Commissioner — Ben Allen vs. Jane Kim

Judges

• Appellate Justice Retention Votes — California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, Second District

• Superior Court Judge, Office 64 — Ghobadi vs. Haymon

• Superior Court Judge, Office 65 — Justin Allen Clayton vs. Anna Slotky Reitano

• Superior Court Judge, Office 87 — David DeJute vs. Anthony (A.J.) Bayne

• Superior Court Judge, Office 131 — David Ross vs. Donna Tryfman

Los Angeles County

• LA County Sheriff — Robert Luna vs. Alex Villanueva

• LA County Measure A — Binding Arbitration for Public Safety Workers

• LA County Measure E — Ethics Commission and Measure J Funding

City of Los Angeles

City Council District 9: coming soon.

• City of Los Angeles City Attorney — McKinney vs. Roy

• City Council District 3 — Gaspar vs. Girvan

• City of LA Measure TE — Palisades Fire ULA exemption

• City of LA Measure LA — Infrastructure, budget, finance, and contracting

• City of LA Measure PL — City Planning Department

• City of LA Measure EE — City ethics, elections, and governance

• City of LA Measure PRK — Doubling the Parks Budget Floor

• City of LA Measure PRT — Port, Airport and DWP Charter Changes

• City of LA Measure FD — LAFD half-cent sales tax

• City of LA Measure SC — LAUSD board campaign finance rules

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