# Key takeaways from California’s 2026 midterm elections

https://mins.news/en/item/128783

- Al Jazeera, 2026-11-04 09:17 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/4/key-takeaways-from-the-2026-midterm-elections-in-california?traffic_source=rss

> Democrats easily held California’s governorship and were leading in several key congressional races as counting continued. Randy Villegas, Marni von Wilpert and Aisha Wahab had strong leads, while Scott Wiener was ahead in the San Francisco Bay Area. Proposition 40, a proposed one-time tax on billionaires’ net worth, was trailing with about 44 percent of votes counted.

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