Thank you to everyone who voted in the November 6th election! The Sierra Club endorsed 88 candidates at the local, state, and federal levels to represent the region covered by the SF Bay Chapter (Marin, SF, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties). As always, there were some tough losses, but we’re happy to report that nearly 80% of our endorsed candidates were victorious!
Our ballot measure endorsements fared even better, with 11 of 12 going our way. Our successful ballot measures include affordable housing bonds at the state level (Prop 1) and in the City of Berkeley (Prop O); funding to enhance and protect the East Bay Regional Parks system (Regional Measure FF); and a plan to tackle San Francisco’s homeless crisis (Prop C). We’re also happy voters saw through some bad ballot measures and rejected them, including Prop 3, the very poorly crafted, pay-to-play water bond; and Prop 6, which would have overturned the gas tax and made it nearly impossible to impose a future tax to fix bridges and roads and fund transit and bikeways.
Thank you for everything you did to make these victories possible: voting, canvassing, texting, calling, and staying informed. Thank you too for your support of the SF Bay Chapter through your memberships and donations, which allow us to continue to elect strong environmental leaders — and lobby them to follow through on their promises once in office.
You can see how all our endorsed candidates and ballot measures fared on our website.