The Abridged version:
- Prop. 40 failed across the four-county Sacramento region during Tuesday’s midterm election.
- If passed, the wealth tax would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on Californians with more than $1 billion in net worth.
- Yes votes were limited to a few urban parts of the region.
Proposition 40 failed by a wide margin across the Sacramento region, and appears headed for defeat statewide.
As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, yes votes on Prop. 40, a one-time wealth tax on California billionaires, totaled 173,000 in the four-county area, compared to 283,000 no votes.
Yes led only in Davis, Oak Park and a few other urban swaths of the region. No earned its most lopsided wins in Placer and El Dorado counties.
Prop. 40 would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on Californians with more than $1 billion in net worth, with the money raised going to fund healthcare, food assistance and education.
This map shows precinct-level results for Sacramento and El Dorado counties, along with county-level results for Placer and El Dorado. Click on a precinct to see vote totals and other information.
