Santa Clara County Elections & Politics Digest

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on implementing a sweeping border crackdown and undertaking the largest-scale deportation effort in history. If carried out, his proposed initiatives will have profound consequences in California, which shares a 140-mile border with Mexico.

California’s Senate will reach gender parity, but depending on the outcome of some close contests, that could extend to the whole Legislature.

Newsom wants the new Legislature to ‘protect’ California from Donald Trump on civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families. The session will start Dec. 2.

A lot is at stake with the new Trump administration: California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air, federal support for offshore wind and disaster aid for wildfires.

Find out which candidates and measures on the Mountain View ballot won in the November election.

Voters have approved a measure to extend Quarry Road to the Palo Alto Transit Center.

The Associated Press reports that Sam Licardo will be representing Silicon Valley in Congress.

An introduction to the two candidates running for the California Congressional 15th District seat in the November 5 election.

A summary of campaign finance filings reveals the extent of contributions by the San Francisco 49ers to candidates running for office in Santa Clara.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings from the candidates running for seats on the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education in the November 5 election.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings for the candidates running for seats on the Mountain View Whisman School Board in the November 5 election.

A summary of the campaign finance filings for the candidates running for the State Assembly District 26 seat reveals large sums from sources outside the district.

THE SALINAS VALLEY is the setting for fecund soil, labor rights movements and John Steinbeck novels.Squeezed into one 90-mile-long wedge between the Gabilan and Santa Lucia mountains, the valley’s residents constitute less than 1% of Californians but have shaped the identity of the whole state.

Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout.

A look at the latest campaign finance filings from the candidates running for the District 5 seat on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.

Proposition 33 on local rent control and the related Proposition 34 are attracting the most campaign cash by far of the 10 ballot measures. But the amount pales to what was spent on dueling sports betting measures in 2022.

A look at the latest campaign finance filings of candidates running for seats on the the Mountain View City Council in the November election.

An introduction to Voltaire Montemayor who is running for the office of Mayor of Milpitas in the November election.

An introduction to Minh Ngo who is running for re-election to the Milpitas Unified School District Board of Education in the November election.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings from the candidates running for seats on the Pal Alto City Council in the November election.

A summary of the latest campaign finance filings from the candidates running for seats on the El Camino Healthcare District Board of Directors in the November election.

An introduction to the nine candidates running for four seats on the Mountain View City Council in the November election.

The latest voter guide for local elections by the Palo Alto Daily Post.

A look at the Los Altos City Council approved map for district elections.

Use our tool to search through investigations opened by the state’s campaign law watchdog. The data updates weekly.

Only one-third of the California GOP congressional delegation has pledged to accept the 2024 presidential election results. And only two incumbents in office in 2021 voted to certify President Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump in the 2020 race.

An introduction to the three candidates running for two open seats on the Mountain View Los Altos High School District Board of Trustees in the November election.

An introduction to the candidates running for the office of Mayor of Morgan Hill in the November election.

The Los Altos Town Crier Q&A with the candidates running for the three open seats on the Los Altos City Council in the November election.

An explainer about the $400 million infrastructure bond Measure I on the Santa Clara ballot in the November election.

An introduction to the candidates running for seats on the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board in the November election.

With proponents of Proposition 36 raising nearly $15 million so far — about three times as much as its opponents — and 71% of likely voters in support, it appears the statewide ballot measure will pass in November.
And that’s exactly what immigrant rights advocates are worried about.