How did your community vote on Prop. 50? See the detailed SLO County data
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- SLO County certified the Special Election; Prop 50 passed 54.7% to 45.3%.
- District 2 recorded highest support at 67.2%; District 1 registered 58% opposition.
- San Luis Obispo led with 74.9% yes; Paso Robles opposed 52.5%; coastal precincts favored.
San Luis Obispo County certified the results of its Special Election on Tuesday, showing that Proposition 50 passed here by nearly a 10-point margin.
Of the 67% of registered voters who cast a ballot in this year’s election — the fourth-highest turnout in the state — 54.7% of SLO County voters voted “yes” on the redistricting proposition while 45.3% voted “no.”
But how did SLO County’s cities, polling precincts and supervisor districts vote?
New voting data collected at the completion of the election canvass and analyzed by The Tribune shows how SLO County on Prop. 50 this past election.
How did SLO County supervisor districts votes on Prop. 50?
Of all SLO County’s supervisor districts, District 2 had the highest “yes” turnout, with 67.2% of district voters in favor of Prop. 50. District 3 came in second in support with 63.3% of the “yes” vote.
District 1, on the other hand, showed the greatest opposition, with 58% voting “no.”
Districts 5 and 4 were the closest calls, with each showing a slight preference or opposition to the ballot measure, respectively.
How did SLO County cities vote on Prop. 50?
San Luis Obispo showed the most support for the ballot measure with 74.9% of the city’s population voting “yes.” SLO also had the most voters of any city, with 19,243 residents casting a ballot.
Paso Robles came out most strongly against Prop. 50, with 52.5% of the city voting “no” — over 30 points less than SLO’s yes vote. Paso Robles came in third for number of voters with 11,507 residents voting.
SLO and Morro Bay had the most prominent divides — both favoring Prop. 50 by at least 25 points — while Arroyo Grande, Pismo Beach, Paso Robles and Atascadero showed more even splits within 12 points of each other.
Arroyo Grande and Pismo Beach leaned slight “yes” while Paso Robles and Atascadero leaned “no.”
How did SLO County precincts vote on Prop 50?
Due to the short turn-around time of only three months to prepare for the Special Election, SLO County had fewer polling locations this year than in a normal election year — 45 compared to the usual 70 or so.
Eighteen precincts were vote-by-mail only and did not have a physical polling location due to the small number of registered voters. Data for those precincts may be redacted in the county’s dataset to protect voter privacy.
The precinct with the highest “yes” vote was 515 in District 5, which had a polling place at the Performing Art Center on Cal Poly’s campus. Of the 331 people who voted in this precinct, 92.7% of people voted in favor of Prop. 50.
A District 2 precinct, 213, voted at the same location and came in with the second highest “yes” vote, with 85.2% of 553 voters casting their ballots in support of Prop. 50.
The precinct with the largest percent of opposition was a mail ballot precinct, MB02, with 89.5% of the precinct’s 19 voters casting “no” ballots.
Seven of the top-10 dissenting precincts were mail-ballot precincts, with the three physical polling precincts located in Shandon, Creston and Paso Robles.
In general, the strongest support for Prop. 50 came from coastal and college-adjacent precincts in San Luis Obispo, Los Osos, Morro Bay and parts of Cambria. The strongest opposition came from rural areas of the county as well as Paso Robles, Shandon, Creston, Atascadero and Nipomo.
Only two of District 1’s 14 precincts voted majority “yes” on Prop. 50, both within a 12-point margin, but in District 2, only two precincts voted majority “no.”
