Measure G, which among other things proposed an expansion of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from five to nine members and the creation of a county executive position, has around 8,000 more votes rejecting it than approving it, said Zev Yaroslavsky, a former member of the board. Yaroslavsky, the director of the LA Initiative at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, said he believes one factor contributing to this was that the ballot lacked information about the measure’s supporters.

“The board of supervisors itself was divided over it by a three to two vote to put it on the ballot. So there were arguments on both sides,” he said. “When voters are faced with the prospect of expanding a board costing more money – or the perception that there is going to cost more money – and to see a divided board, they tend to vote no.”

However, Yaroslavsky warned against preemptively taking the statistics as fact, since the margin is so small.