Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Proposition 50

CITY NEWS SERVICE

California voters Tuesday approved Proposition 50, the statewide congressional redistricting proposal.

What supporters dubbed “The Election Rigging Response Act,” led 64.4%-35.6% with 68.3% of election night precincts partially reporting, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

“Tonight, California voters stood up to Donald Trump, rejecting his attempt to steal elections in states like Texas, Florida, and Ohio,” Rep. Dave Min, D-Irvine, said in a statement.

“The maps created by Proposition 50 are a direct response to Donald Trump’s unprecedented power grab.”

Assemblyman David Tangipa called passage of Proposition 50, “A sad day” because “the people of California have been lied to.”

“They’ve been lied to by Governor Newsom and the elites here in Sacramento, and these election results just proved that they campaigned on a whole lot of lies and drove emotionally charged arguments to get people to vote against their best interests by protecting the gold standard on the redistricting committee,” Tangipa, R-Fresno, said at the California Republican Party’s Sacramento headquarters.

Proposition 50 will establish new congressional district maps for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. An analysis by the election news website Ballotpedia said it would shift five Republican-held congressional districts toward Democrats.

Democrats hold a 43-9 advantage in the state’s House delegation.

The measure came in response to an effort in Texas for a mid-decade congressional redistricting that analysts said would give Republicans five additional seats.

Other Republican-controlled states such as Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska and South Carolina are also considering efforts to approve mid-decade redistricting.

Backers of the measure say it “draws fair maps that represent California’s diverse communities and ensure our voices aren’t silenced by Republican gerrymandering in other states.”

Opponents say Proposition 50 “creates one of the most extreme partisan gerrymanders in modern American history” and is a “threat to democracy and fair elections in California,” according to the campaign against the measure.

“If Prop 50 passes, it is a fatal blow to the whole concept of fairness and the very foundation of our democracy undermined,” Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, told City News Service Monday..