California 1972 ballot propositions
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In1972, voters decided on 32 statewide ballot measures inCalifornia. On June 6, voters decided on 10. On November 7, voters decided on 22.
- Four were initiated constitutional amendments.
- Six were initiated state statutes.
- 17 were legislatively referred constitutional amendments.
- One was a legislatively referred state statute.
- Four were bond issues.
- Voters approved 24 (75%) and rejected eight (25%).
On the ballot
June 6, 1972
| Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proposition 10 | Constitutional wording | Amend the Constitution relating to board of education members, penal institutions, water rates, land, and corporations. |
| 3,384,238 (66%) | 1,762,483 (34%) | |
| Proposition 1 | Veterans;Bonds | Allow for the issuance of bonds up to $250,000,000 for farms and homes for veterans and establish the terms of such bonds. |
| 3,780,338 (65%) | 1,991,731 (35%) | |
| Proposition 2 | Education;Bonds | Allow for the issuance of bonds up to $350,000,000 for public school improvements and establish the terms of such bonds |
| 3,102,047 (54%) | 2,666,250 (46%) | |
| Proposition 3 | Trials | Restate that the defendant has the right to counsel and allow the legislature to require that a defendant has the assistance of counsel. |
| 2,899,685 (52%) | 2,698,955 (48%) | |
| Proposition 4 | Primary elections | Require the legislature to provide an open primary for the office of President of the United States with candidates' names who are recognized candidates throughout the United State of California or who appear on the ballot because of a petition to do so. |
| 3,378,579 (61%) | 2,123,372 (39%) | |
| Proposition 5 | Administration;Education;Legislature | Require the approval of a majority of Senate members for appointments to the Regents of the University of California by the governor. |
| 3,408,319 (61%) | 2,158,627 (39%) | |
| Proposition 6 | Citizenship voting | Eliminate provisions requiring naturalized citizens to be naturalized for 90 days before they are eligible to vote. |
| 3,347,087 (59%) | 2,286,804 (41%) | |
| Proposition 7 | Taxes | Allow the legislature to prohibit valuing single-family dwellings at a value that would reflect a use other than as a single-family dwelling. |
| 3,769,524 (68%) | 1,793,369 (32%) | |
| Proposition 8 | Alternative healthcare;Healthcare governance | Edit provisions relating to the Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Chiropractic Act. |
| 3,901,454 (74%) | 1,397,331 (26%) | |
| Proposition 9 | Business;Energy | Establish provisions relating to fuel, gas, oil, atomic-energy plants, pesticides, and air pollution. |
| 2,128,087 (35%) | 3,901,151 (65%) |
November 7, 1972
| Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proposition 10 | Taxes;Veterans | Allow the legislature to increase the property tax exemption for veterans blinded due to their service to $10,000. |
| 7,088,300 (89%) | 838,366 (11%) | |
| Proposition 11 | Constitutional rights | Provide for a state constitutional right to privacy |
| 4,861,225 (63%) | 2,871,342 (37%) | |
| Proposition 12 | Taxes;Veterans | Extend tax exemption for disabled veterans and extend this tax exemption to surviving spouses. |
| 7,100,443 (90%) | 812,286 (10%) | |
| Proposition 13 | Labor | Allow the legislature to establish that workmen's compensation awards are paid to the state, in the course of the death of an employee in the course of their work, who has no dependents and allow funds collected in such manner to be used for other injury compensation. |
| 5,632,332 (73%) | 2,121,053 (27%) | |
| Proposition 14 | Severance taxes;Business taxes;Property taxes;Sales taxes;Tobacco tax;Revenue and spending limits;Legislature | Limit ad valorem property taxes and revise the system for financing public educatin and social welfare. |
| 2,700,095 (34%) | 5,213,485 (66%) | |
| Proposition 15 | Labor;Civil service | Establish procedures for setting the salaries of state employees and for employer-employee relations between the state and its employees. |
| 2,539,611 (33%) | 5,271,067 (67%) | |
| Proposition 16 | Salaries | Require the State Personnel Board to set the maximum salaries of policemen or deputy sheriffs and adjust the salaries of members of the Highway Patrol. |
| 3,071,926 (39%) | 4,782,368 (61%) | |
| Proposition 17 | Constitutional wording;Death penalty | Provide that nothing in the California Constitution prohibits the death penalty |
| 5,447,165 (68%) | 2,617,514 (32%) | |
| Proposition 18 | Sexual content regulations | Establish provisions and penalties related to obscenity. |
| 2,603,927 (32%) | 5,503,888 (68%) | |
| Proposition 19 | Criminal sentencing;Marijuana;Drug crime | Remove state criminal penalties for individuals 18 years or older for possessing or using marijuana |
| 2,733,120 (33%) | 5,433,393 (67%) | |
| Proposition 1 | Education;Bonds | Allow for the issuance of bonds up to $160,000,000 for public community college facilities and establish the terms of such bonds. |
| 4,438,197 (57%) | 3,364,631 (43%) | |
| Proposition 20 | Water;Parks and conservation | Create the State Coastal Zone Conservation Commission to preserve the environment and ecology of the coastal zone and appropriate $5,000,000 for the commission. |
| 4,363,375 (55%) | 3,548,180 (45%) | |
| Proposition 21 | Education;Race and ethnicity | Prohibit public school students from being assigned to schools because of their race or ethnicity and eliminate the provision that requires schools districts to develop plans to remedy ethnic and racial imbalances. |
| 4,962,420 (63%) | 2,907,776 (37%) | |
| Proposition 22 | Agriculture;Administrative organization | Establish regulations for agricultural labor relations. |
| 3,348,176 (42%) | 4,612,642 (58%) | |
| Proposition 2 | Healthcare facility;Bonds | Allow for the issuance of bonds up to $155,900,000 for health science facilities and establish the terms of such bonds. |
| 4,657,810 (60%) | 3,108,550 (40%) | |
| Proposition 3 | Environment;Bonds | Allow the legislature to issue bonds for the acquisition, construction, and installation of environmental pollution control facilities. |
| 3,954,497 (51%) | 3,728,663 (49%) | |
| Proposition 4 | Legislature | Establish changes to legislative sessions and the position of legislator. |
| 4,521,981 (61%) | 2,906,291 (39%) | |
| Proposition 5 | Education | Allow school districts to act in any manner and carry out any programs that have established purposes and do not conflict with existing laws. |
| 4,417,732 (59%) | 3,121,040 (41%) | |
| Proposition 6 | Constitutional wording | Adjust provisions relating to terms of officers and commissioners, the salaries of elected officials, and tax issues because of state's boundaries. |
| 4,855,713 (66%) | 2,503,627 (34%) | |
| Proposition 7 | Election administration;Primary elections;Voting age | Make adjustments to laws relating to voting and elections. |
| 5,226,396 (68%) | 2,426,818 (32%) | |
| Proposition 8 | Environment;Taxes | Allow the legislature to authorize an ad valorem tax exemption for facilities designed to control air, water, or noise pollution. |
| 2,074,255 (27%) | 5,571,995 (73%) | |
| Proposition 9 | Ballot measures;Public education funding;Bonds | Require a majority to approve bond measures relating to repairing, reconstructing, or replacing structurally unsafe public school buildings. |
| 4,220,625 (54%) | 3,530,071 (46%) |
See also
- Laws governing the initiative process in California
- List of California ballot measures
- 1972 ballot measures
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