Santa Ana Ballot Measures Election Night Results 2024

Here’s wherever Santa Ana voters stood connected a fewer cardinal ballot measures that could signifier the city’s aboriginal erstwhile it comes to rent control, noncitizen voting and raising metropolis assembly compensation, according to archetypal counts connected Election Night.

Initial results arsenic of 8 p.m. Tuesday showed 54.97% of voters were successful favour of a local rent power ordinance that caps what landlords and spot owners tin rise connected residential rents. Meanwhile, 45.03% of voters were against the measurement – a 3,043 ballot margin. 

Roughly 65.27% of Santa Ana were against giving noncitizens a accidental successful their section elections, portion 34.73% were for the measurement – a 9,041vote margin. 

Initial tallies besides showed 67.03% of voters were opposed to raising City Council compensation for aboriginal elected officials. 32.97% were successful favour of expanding wage for metropolis leaders – a borderline of 10, 212 votes. 

The rent power measurement – Measure CC – if passed, would necessitate voters to o.k. immoderate changes to the city’s existent rent power ordinance. 

Supporters of rent power reason that the citywide ordinance gives families and seniors a accidental to unrecorded comfortably successful Santa Ana amid a statewide lodging crisis.

Councilmembers Thai Phan and Johnathan Hernandez on with Orange County Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento voiced enactment of the rent power measure.

Opponents accidental capping the magnitude that landlords and spot owners tin rise rent does not lick semipermanent lodging concerns.

Councilman Phil Bacerra has signed and publically backed absorption to the ballot measurement enshrining the citywide rent power ordinance.

If the noncitizen voting measurement – Measure DD passes – it would marque Santa Ana the archetypal metropolis successful California to let for noncitizens to vote, including for metropolis assembly and aboriginal ballot measures. This does not see votes for authorities and national races.

The metropolis assembly wage measurement – Measure FF –  could rewrite the city’s municipal codification to marque metropolis assembly salaries astatine a fixed complaint adjacent to 33% to that of an Orange County Superior Court Judge, astir $78,000.

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Some Santa Ana officials reason that raising the basal wage would gully successful much radical to tally for City Council, including Councilwoman Phan and Councilman Bacerra.

If passed, Santa Ana would beryllium 1 of the archetypal Orange County cities to wage elected officials arsenic full-time politicians, thing likewise sized cities similar Anaheim and Irvine bash not do. 

Hugo Rios is simply a Voice of OC reporting fellow. Contact him astatine [email protected] oregon connected Twitter @hugoriosss.

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