New Ballot Measure Website
Welcome to the new home of the IGS Library Ballot Proposition Guides.
All of the Ballot Measure Guide web pages have been migrated. The old website and pages are available via the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.
If you encounter any broken links or other issues with the new pages, please let us know!
About the Guides
The guides contain concise descriptions of qualified California Statewide ballot propositions including non-partisan analyses, official voter information, background materials, pro-and-con websites, newspaper articles and editorials, opinion polls, political endorsements, and financial contribution records.
The proposition guides are created by consulting official California state agencies' information and non-partisan election resources. Library staff use newspapers, media outlets, and campaign literature (print and online) as the source materials for the endorsement tables.
Beginning with the November 7, 2000 General Election until March 2, 2004 Primary Election, the Ballot Guides only contained endorsement tables for the state propositions. The tables showed the endorsements (Yes or No) by prominent political parties, media outlets, unions, and other organizations.
Starting with the November 2, 2004 General Election, the Library wrote individual guides for each statewide proposition in addition to the endorsement table. City and County ballot measures are not included, nor are candidate endorsements.
Additional Ballot Resources
If you are seeking information about voter registration, voting, and other election information, please see the Go Bears! Go Vote! Voter Information Guide
The UC Law/San Francisco California Ballot Measures Database provides the full text, official results, and other related ballot propositions and initiatives from 1911 to the present.
The library also maintains an extensive collection of print clippings and election ephemera, dating back several decades. Check UC Library Search or email igsl@berkeley.edu for more information. We have begun digitizing the ephemera collection, and some parts are now available in UC Berkeley's Digital Collections.