Green Party Voter Guide - November 2, 2026 elections on the ballot in LA County

The Green Party of Los Angeles County (GPLAC) organizes based upon the Green Party of California platform and the Green Party's Ten Key Values - applying that platform and those values to issues in our local communities.  We take positions on individual issues, as well as make endorsements of candidates and ballot measures.

* GPLAC Bylaws provide for endorsing Green Party members who are candidates for public office, and making a statement of 'support/recommendation' for candidates for public office who are not Green Party members. In this case, Allen and Raman are registered Democrats, so they have received GPLAC recommendation/support

Green Party endorsement positions on ballot measures in Los Angeles County, followed below by the text of each ballot measure and the Green Party rationale for its position

County of Los Angeles 

Endorse: County of Los Angeles Measure E: Ethics Commission and Community Investment Budget Allocation Charter Amendment
"Shall the measure amending the Los Angeles County Charter to provide greater independence and structure for the County of Los Angeles Ethics Commission, Office of Ethics Compliance, and Ethics Compliance Officer, including appointment processes, qualifications, term, duties and responsibilities, and to continue uninterrupted the County's commitment to community investment?"

Reason for Green Party Position: Measure E creates an independent Los Angeles County Ethics Commission, with authority to increase transparency, prevent corruption, and hold officials accountable in the largest county in the nation. For more: www.yesonethics.com/

Endorse - County of Los Angeles Measure J - Community Investment and Alternatives to Incarceration Minimum County Budget Allocation 
"Shall the measure, annually allocating in the County’s budget no less than ten percent (10%) of the County’s locally generated unrestricted revenues in the general fund to address the disproportionate impact of racial injustice through community investment and alternatives to incarceration and prohibiting using those funds for carceral systems and law enforcement agencies as detailed in the ordinance adopting the proposed charter amendment, be adopted?"

Read why Yes on J: yesonj.reimagine.la/about

City of Los Angeles Measures

Oppose: City of Los Angeles Measure EE: City ethics, elections and governance. Charter Amendment

Reason for Green Party Opposition: This measure would decrease accountability of the Los Angeles City Council in two ways - reducing the minimum requirement for the City Council, while simultaneously making it harder to challenge City Council decisions via the referendum process. 

Under Measure EE, the minimum meeting requirement for the City Council would change from a minimum of three meetings a week to one. Proponents argue this would help City Council members spend more time in their districts. But there are other viable ways of affecting council member workload have not been addressed by the council, like city council expansion and amending city council powers - reforms long overdue that the Council has not taken seriously.  Los Angeles has the worst per-capital city council representation in the country resulting from too few city council members for a city of four million people. Thus the effect of this measure would allow the City Council to keep its over-concentration of powers without considering needed related reforms.

Any changes in the Council meeting schedule should be part of a larger package of reforms that fit together, that combine required meetings frequency together with an increase in the number of council members, along with revisiting of city council powers and responsibilities.

Additionally, at the same time the council fails to address needed reforms of its size and powers. this measure would increase by 50%, the number of signatures necessary to qualify a referendum on a city council decision, making it even harder to challenge the council's decisions via the referendum process,

Making matters worse, the EE ballot measure title mentions neither of these deforms, hiding the bad apples in this bunch, which are more than enough reasons to vote EE down.  The other reforms in Measure EE could have been placed on the ballot separately from these two.

For an in-depth look at problems with EE: Letter from California Clean Money Campaign, Common Cause, Fair Rep LA, the League of Women Voters and Unrig LA, opposed deleting the current meeting requirement is a “poison pill” that would strip away one of the few hard guarantees of regular public meetings, and argued for add stronger public accessibility protections, not lesser. 

Endorse: Los Angeles Ballot Measure City Department of Recreation and Parks Budget, Charter Amendment PRK
"Shall the City Charter be amended to increase the minimum budget allocated to the Department of Recreation and Parks, phased in over ten years until it is double the current minimum budget allocation, with exceptions for fiscal emergencies?

Reason for Green Party Endorsement: This measure would provide desperately needed additional funds to maintain and increase the number of parks in the City of Los Angeles. 

Endorse: Los Angeles Ballot Measure Infrastructure, Budget, Finance and Contracting Charter Amendment LA
"Shall the City Charter be amended to: establish a capital infrastructure plan and two-year budget cycle for the City; increase the authority of the Director of Public Works and allow for the elimination of or changes to the Board of Public Works; remove restrictions prohibiting the City from engaging in business enterprises and mortgaging City-owned property; and change certain contracting rules and procedures?

Reason for Green Party Endorsement: This measure would provide for desperately needed long term infrastructure planning -- and two-year budgeting (instead of one-year), for the City of Los Angeles. 

Los Angeles Unified School District 

Endorse: Los Angeles Unified School District Measure SC: Campaign Finance Rules Related to Board of Education Elections Charter Amendment
"Shall the Los Angeles City Charter be amended to clarify the campaign finance rules for Board of Education elections and allow for changes by ordinance?"

Reason for Green Party Endorsement: Makes clear campaign finance rules

City of Burbank

Oppose: Burbank Measure CC Charter Amendment Measure
"Shall the Burbank City Charter be amended to remove the requirement for at-large elections of City Council members and permit the City's electoral system to be specified by ordinance adopted by the City Council or by the voters by initiative?"

Oppose: Burbank Measure CD By-District Council Elections Measure
"Shall the Ordinance be adopted adding Chapter 3 to Title 2 of the Municipal Code changing the City's electoral system for City Council elections from at-large to by-district elections in the districts reflected in Map 130?"
 
Reason for Green Party Opposition: Placing Measures CC and CD on the ballot were part of a settlement of a California Voting Rights Act case, but settlement does not require passage, just a public vote.  Measure CC would change the City Charter to allow electing the City Council from single-seat winner-take-all districts, upon a vote of the City Council. Instead of winner-take-all districts, the GPLAC supports proportional representation via the use of proportional ranked choice voting (PRCV).  Burbank considered this option, but the County of Los Angeles - which conducts Burbank's elections - does not currently offer ranked-choice voting elections as a service.  This may change however, as several cities in Los Angeles County are considering elections using ranked-choice voting.  The GPLAC believes that this approach to enacting single-seat districts should be rejected and instead a reopening of discussion about RCV with LA County, followed by a local public education process and then a ballot measure to use PRCV for Burbank's at-large elections.

City of Culver City
 
Endorse: Culver City Measure YV
"Shall the measure amending the City of Culver City Charter to allow Culver City residents age 16 and 17, who are otherwise eligible to vote under state and local law, to vote on City and School District candidates and ballot measures, provided that each legislative body has approved budgetary funds and determined logistical systems are in place, and that inclusion would not prevent consolidation of City or School District elections with county elections, be adopted?
 
Reason for Green Party Endorsement: Empowers youth voting and participation in municipal politics/municipal government; and by building voting habits at an earlier age, is more likely to increase voter participation for the long run.

City of Huntington Park
 
Oppose: Huntington Park Measure HP
"Shall an ordinance be adopted to establish a lifetime limit of two (2) terms for members of the City Council, where a partial term of more than two (2) years counts as a full term, and a partial term of two (2) years or less does not count against the limit?"
 
Reason for Green Party Opposition: Instead of term limits, for as long as Huntington Park elects its city council by single-seat districts, it should enact ranked-choice voting to give more choice to voters instead of limiting choice via term limits, and if it changes to at-large elections it should elected its city council by proportional ranked choice voting. 

 City of Santa Monica

Endorse:  Santa Monica Measure GG
"Shall the City Charter be amended to: affirm the City of Santa Monica’s just cause eviction laws; allow Rent Control Board Commissioners to serve up to three terms, including appointed service; annually increase the cap on rent controlled unit registration fees; clarify Rent Control Board authority to regulate timelines for deciding rent adjustment petitions; and permit eviction from affordable housing units for tenants who are not eligible or do not establish eligibility?"
 
Endorse:  Santa Monica Measure RR
"Shall the City Charter be amended to prohibit evictions based on non-payment of rent when a tenant owes less than one month of the average of fair market rents, set annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, for ZIP codes in Santa Monica?"
 
Endorse:  Santa Monica Measure VV
"Shall Article XXIII of the City Charter related to housing policies be amended to extend existing eviction protections to tenants renting single-unit dwellings and condominiums and require that for owner occupancy evictions from non-rent controlled units, the owner must intend in good faith to occupy the unit within 60 days after the tenant vacates and for at least 2 years thereafter?"
 
Endorse:  Santa Monica Measure TT 
"Shall the measure, which maintains the existing transient occupancy tax rates; authorizes the City Council to establish Major Event Periods, as defined, when the tax applies to lodging paid for or obtained by corporate entities for stays over 30 days, and to adjust the hotel and motel tax rate for such stays; clarifies that refunds require a natural person to complete at least thirty-one consecutive days of occupancy, and authorizes administrative regulations, be adopted?"

 
City of South El Monte
 
Oppose: South El Monte Measure CL Term Limits Reform Measure
"Shall the terms served by the City Council in the City of South El Monte be limited to no more than four (4) four-year terms in their lifetime and where service for the unexpired balance of a vacated City Council seat (whether by appointment or election) will not count as service for a full four-year term even if such service is for less than four years in duration."
 
Reason for Green Party Opposition: Instead of term limits that limit voter choice, South El Monte should enact ranked-choice voting to empower voters with more choice.  Term limits limit voter choice by restricting who voters can vote for.  Ranked-choice voting does the opposite, empowering voters to express their preferences over which and how many candidates as they wish. 

 City of Whittier
 
Endorse: Whittier Measure EV General Municipal Election Date
"Shall the measure amending the City's charter so that the City's general municipal elections (currently held in April of each even-numbered year) are held in each even-numbered year on the same day as the November statewide general elections, be adopted?”

Reason for Green Party Endorsement: Will substantially increase voter turnout by consolidating with a regular General Election instead of a separate stand-alone election. 

Oppose: Whittier Measure EL Term Limits on City Council
"Shall the measure amending the City's charter to prohibit candidates from running for mayor or member of the city council if their election would result in that candidate serving more than 12 total years in elective office in the City (aside from terms of office that were elected or appointed at or prior to November 3, 2026) be adopted?"
 
Reason for Green Party Opposition: Instead of term limits, for as long as Whittier elects its city council by single-seat districts, it should enact ranked-choice voting to give more choice to voters instead of limiting choice by limiting who can run, and if Whittier changes to at-large elections it should elected its city council by proportional ranked choice voting.

Statewide Measures 

Endorse - Proposition   4 –  Allow for public financing/clean money for elections 
Endorse - Proposition 40 – Billionaires Tax 
Oppose  - Proposition   5 – False Reform of Recall system 
Oppose  - Proposition 39 – Voter Suppression