Bay Area Progressive Voter Guide – 2026 June Primary
Discover endorsed ballot measures that align with our values of racial, economic, and environmental justice. Be a voter who supports our working-class, immigrant, communities of color in the Bay Area and across California!
2026 Endorsement Summary
Alameda; Contra Costa; San Francisco; San Mateo
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Alameda County
Measures
| District | Number/Letter | Description | Position |
| Oakland | Measure E | Create Parcel Tax to Fund Public Safety Programs Measure | Yes |
Contra Costa County
Measures
| District | Number/Letter | Description | Position |
| Contra Costa County | Measure B | Fund The Services we Depend on Sales Tax | Yes |
San Francisco
Measures
| District | Number/Letter | Description | Position |
| San Francisco | Proposition A | Earthquake Preparedness, Safe Buildings means a Strong City | Yes |
| San Francisco | Proposition C | Small business relief shouldn’t come at workers’ expense | No |
| San Francisco | Proposition D | Hold corporations accountable when CEOs earn 100× more than their workers | Yes |
San Mateo County
Measures
| District | Number/Letter | Description | Position |
| Redwood City | Renter Protections: Everyone deserves Fair and Affordable Housing | Yes |
San Francisco
Yes on D – Overpaid CEO Tax: Hold corporations accountable when CEOs earn 100× more than their workers.
YES on Prop D taxes the largest corporations, whose CEOs are paid 100 times more than the median pay of their employees, to raise at least $200M for vital city services. This only affects corporations that have over 1,000 employees, with over $1 billion in revenue. Federal cuts have gutted Medicaid and SNAP benefits and are directly impacting SF Hospitals, impacting over 20,000 San Franciscans. Prop D funds critical services; healthcare workers, first responders, public hospitals, housing, and other essential services that keep our communities and neighborhoods safe and healthy. This tax was previously in effect from 2022 to 2024, and was lowered in 2024 via Prop M. Prop D restores the original tax.
No on Prop C – Decrease to Business Taxes: Small business relief shouldn’t come at workers’ expense
Created by the Chamber of Commerce, Prop C would allow more businesses to qualify for tax exemptions, which would increase the wealth of the top 1% of corporations and billionaires, while worsening the budget crisis the city is already facing. With thousands of working people already experiencing cuts to services and programs, voters should be doing everything they can to tax greedy billionaires and corporations to pay their fair share. Vote No on Prop C.
Yes on Prop A – Earthquake Safety and Emergency Bond Measure: Safe buildings means a strong city
YES on Prop A allows the city to take out $535 million in bonds to fund critical infrastructure improvements for earthquake safety and emergency response. YES on Prop A will keep San Franciscans safe in an earthquake, emergency or fire, improve and rebuild aging infrastructure; deteriorating pipes, tunnels, and related facilities to ensure firefighters can access enough water to fight fires from a major disaster or emergency.
Contra Costa County
Yes on Measure B – Sales Tax Measure: Don’t cut the services we depend on
Contra Costa County needs money to keep basic services running, things like public health, emergency response, roads, and programs that support seniors, kids, and low-income residents. Measure B raises that money through a small sales tax of 0.625%, which works out to about 63 cents on every $100 you spend. It lasts five years, then voters decide whether to renew it. That’s it.
Over five years, this tax is estimated to bring in $150 million a year for the county. That’s real money that goes directly toward the services communities depend on. And because it comes with required annual audits, there’s built-in accountability. Vote YES on Measure B.
Oakland, Alameda County
Yes on Measure E – Create Parcel Tax to Fund Public Safety Programs Measure: Real public safety means real investment
Measure E imposes a $192 annual parcel tax on single-family homes, with exemptions for qualifying low-income and senior households, raising approximately $34 million annually for nine years. Funds go toward preventing increased 911 response times; maintaining fire stations, fire protection, police patrols and investigations, and gun-violence prevention; addressing homelessness; and removing illegal dumping and trash. The measure includes oversight, audits, and public disclosure requirements.
Nearly 30,000 Oaklanders: firefighters, teachers, nurses, and everyday residents signed to place Measure E on the ballot. Not politicians. That kind of community-driven effort reflects how deeply Oakland residents want real, funded solutions to the challenges facing our neighborhoods.
Our elders deserve a fire department that can respond to them. Our residents deserve support to prevent eviction and becoming unhoused. Our unhoused residents deserve access to quality, affordable housing. And our Flatland streets deserve repair and to be cleaned.
Measure E funds dedicated to public safety programs only and is how we begin to build the full-picture safety our communities have always deserved. We need to fully fund the prevention, trauma-informed healing, and care our communities need, and this measure helps make that possible. Vote Yes on Measure E.
Redwood City, San Mateo County
Yes on Renter Protections: Everyone deserves Fair and Affordable Housing
Redwood City renters are in crisis. Rents keep climbing, evictions keep happening, and working families keep getting pushed out of the communities they built. The Fair and Affordable Housing Ordinance puts a stop to the worst of it by capping rent increases at 5% per year and cracking down on unjust evictions.
The ordinance is carefully written to target the properties that need it most. Single family homes, condos, and new buildings built after 1995 are all exempt. This is about protecting people in older multifamily buildings, the kind of housing where working class families, seniors, and long-term residents are most likely to live, and most likely to be pushed out.
Yes on Affordable Housing Ordinance
