Election 2016

A couple of weeks ago, I sat in The Daily Californian office with a stack of voter registration forms, helping staffers to register to vote.

I'm spending the semester in Washington, D.C. through a study abroad-type program called UCDC, and I'd be lying if I said the election wasn't a big draw in getting me to apply for this term.

The first time I remember identifying as a Democrat was the 2008 presidential election. My dad was a Democrat, so, as a 9-year-old, obviously I was a Democrat. As most people my age, I look back to 2008 as a year

The victory for Arreguin, who earned the major endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders and was a frontrunner in the mayoral race, marks a triumph for his youth-driven grassroots campaign which advocated for strong progressive policies.

Scott Jackson was elected Alameda County superior judge, while incumbents won big in BART and AC Transit board of director elections.

All city measures passed except for landlord-backed Measure DD, and the minimum wage ballots Measure BB and Measure CC, which had both been running joint "no-no" campaigns.

For many voters, the excitement of their first opportunity to have their say in the general election process was overshadowed by the polarizing national conversation surrounding the two major presidential candidates, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.

Encapsulating a long battle between the interests of property owners and those of the city, the city-backed Measure U1 was approved by about 75 percent of Berkeley voters Tuesday night.

Incumbents Beatriz Leyva-Cutler and Judy Appel won the two open Board of Education director positions for the Berkeley Unified School District on Tuesday, defeating their sole challenger Abdur Sikder.

Christina Murphy, Alejandro Soto-Vigil, Leah Simon-Weisberg and Igor Tregub won all four seats for Berkeley’s Rent Stabilization Board, knocking out incumbent Judy Hunt and challenger Nathan Wollman who ran together as part of the FAIR Berkeley slate.