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President/Vice President of the United States

• Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Democratic
  8,063,473 votes 61.1%
• John McCain/Sarah Palin, Republican
  4,902,278 votes 37.1%
• Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales, Peace and Freedom
  105,375 votes 0.8%
• Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root, Libertarian
  65,654 votes 0.5%
• Alan Keyes/Wiley S. Drake, Sr., American Independent
  39,620 votes 0.3%
• Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente, Green
  37,432 votes 0.2%
• James Harris/Alyson Kennedy (Write-in)
• Ron Paul/Gail Lightfoot (Write-in)
• Frank Moore/Susan Block (Write-in)
• Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Write-in)

US Legislative

United States Representative; District 3

• Dan Lungren, Republican
  153,695 votes 49.5%
• William Durston, Democratic
  136,767 votes 44.0%
• Dina Padilla, Peace and Freedom
  13,243 votes 4.3%
• Douglas Tuma, Libertarian
  7,147 votes 2.2%

State Senate

State Senator; District 1

• Dave Cox, Republican
  265,356 votes 62.3%
• Anselmo Chavez, Democratic
  160,845 votes 37.7%

State Assembly

Member of the State Assembly; District 5

• Roger Niello, Republican
  101,888 votes 54.3%
• Danial Leahy, Democratic
  71,733 votes 38.1%
• Karen Martinez, Peace and Freedom
  14,295 votes 7.6%

Superior Court Judge; County of Sacramento; Office 6

• Peter J. McBrien
  285,310 votes 96.07%
• Matthew Jay Smith (Write-in)
• (11,657 Total Write-In Votes 3.93%)

Superior Court Judge; County of Sacramento; Office 13

• Marjorie Koller
  280,195 votes 98.03%
• (5,639 Total Write-In Votes 1.97%)

Superior Court Judge; County of Sacramento; Office 16

• Kevin R. Culhane
  281,831 votes 98.09%
• (5,495 Total Write-In Votes 1.91%)

School

Board Member; San Juan Unified School District (3 Elected)

• Larry Miles
  57,077 votes 25.26%
• Lucinda E. Luttgen
  55,321 votes 24.49%
• Richard Launey
  50,892 votes 22.53%
• Lance Christensen
  32,123 votes 14.22%
• Joan D. Miller
  29,524 votes 13.07%
• (989 Total Write-In Votes .44%)

Special District

Board Member; Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District; Division 6

• D'Elman Clark
  12,137 votes 63.88%
• Robert H. Halleck
  6,755 votes 35.55%
• (107 Total Write-In Votes .56%)

Director; Del Paso Manor Water District (2 Elected)

• Michael A. Clohossey
  1,093 votes 37.96%
• Richard Allen
  1,015 votes 35.26%
• Gregory Wilson
  449 votes 15.60%
• Jason David Brown
  313 votes 10.87%
• (9 Total Write-In Votes .31%)

Proposition 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train
Pass: 6,512,189 / 52.5% Yes votes ...... 5,887,181 / 47.5% No votes

To provide Californians a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices; to provide good-paying jobs and improve California's economy while reducing air pollution, global warming greenhouse gases, and our dependence on foreign oil, shall $9.95 billion in bonds be issued to establish a clean, efficient high-speed train service linking Southern California, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area, with at least 90 percent of bond funds spent for specific projects, with federal and private matching funds required, all bond funds subject to an independent audit?

Proposition 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals
Pass: 8,009,556 / 63.4% Yes votes ...... 4,622,352 / 36.6% No votes

Shall certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around?

Proposition 3 Children's Hospital Bond Act. Grant Program
Pass: 6,805,649 / 55.1% Yes votes ...... 5,536,987 / 44.9% No votes

Shall $980,000,000 in general obligation bonds be authorized for construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of eligible children's hospitals?

Proposition 4 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy
Fail: 6,071,863 / 48.0% Yes votes ...... 6,570,777 / 52.0% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to prohibit abortion for an unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor's parent, legal guardian, or, in limited cases, substitute adult relative?

Proposition 5 Nonviolent Drug Offenses, Sentencing, Parole and Rehabilitation
Fail: 5,015,080 / 40.4% Yes votes ...... 7,407,454 / 59.6% No votes

Shall $460,000,000 be allocated annually to improve and expand treatment programs?

Proposition 6 Police and Law Enforcement Funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws
Fail: 3,728,495 / 30.8% Yes votes ...... 8,365,052 / 69.2% No votes

Shall of minimum of $965,000,000 of state funding be required each year for police and local law enforcement?

Proposition 7 Renewable Energy Generation
Fail: 4,376,814 / 35.4% Yes votes ...... 7,984,617 / 64.6% No votes

Shall government-owned utilities be required to generate 20% of their electricity from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable to private electrical corporations? Shall all utilities be required to generate 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2025?

Proposition 8 Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry
Pass: 6,838,107 / 52.3% Yes votes ...... 6,246,463 / 47.7% No votes

Shall the California Constitution be changed to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry providing that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California?

Proposition 9 Criminal Justice System. Victims' Rights. Parole
Pass: 6,518,511 / 53.8% Yes votes ...... 5,602,596 / 46.2% No votes

Shall notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole be required? Shall victim safety be a consideration for bail or parole?

Proposition 10 Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds
Fail: 4,966,867 / 40.5% Yes votes ...... 7,303,418 / 59.5% No votes

Shall $5 billion in bonds paid from state's General Fund be authorized to help consumers and others purchase certain vehicles, and to help research in renewable energy and alternative fuel vehicles?

Proposition 11 Redistricting
Pass: 5,957,057 / 50.8% Yes votes ...... 5,759,932 / 49.2% No votes

Shall the authority for establishing state office boundaries be changed from elected representatives to a commission comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and representatives of neither party selected from the registered voter pool in a multilevel process?

Proposition 12 Veteran's Bond Act of 2008
Pass: 7,618,136 / 63.5% Yes votes ...... 4,385,715 / 36.5% No votes

Shall a nine hundred million dollar ($900,000,000) bond be issued to provide farm and home aid for California veterans?

Measure M School Bonds -- Los Rios Community College District (School Bond - 55% vote)
Pass: 291,780 / 57.7% Yes votes ...... 214,169 / 42.3% No votes
   263,876 (58.75%) Yes / 185,252 (41.25%) No in Sacramento County
   27904 (49.11%) Yes / 28917 (50.89%) No in El Dorado County

Shall the Los Rios Community College District be authorized to issue $475,000,000 million in bonds at the lowest available interest rates to improve student academic performance by building classrooms, facilities and labs throughout the district including for teaching green technologies; nursing and health care programs; architecture, engineering and construction management; computer sciences; early childhood development; and fire and police public safety programs at the American River, Cosumnes River, El Dorado, Folsom, and Sacramento City College campuses?