This is a list of California ballot propositions from 1970–1979.

Elections

June 2, 1970

  • 1 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – University Of California Health Science Facilities.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision: Local Government.
  • 3 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision: Public Utilities, Corporations And Water Use.
  • 4 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision: Various.
  • 5 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision: Future Constitutional Amendments, State Civil Service.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State And County Boards Of Education: Textbooks.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Interest Rate On State Bonds.
  • 8 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Taxation For Schools And Social Welfare.

November 3, 1970

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – The Clean Water Bond Law of 1970.
  • 2 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Vacancies in Specified Constitutional Offices.
  • 3 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State Budget.
  • 4 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Appropriation For Public Schools.
  • 5 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Regents University Of California: Public Meetings.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Teachers' Retirement Fund: Investments.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State Colleges: Speaker Member Of Governing Body.
  • 8 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Superintendent Of Public Instruction.
  • 9 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – County Superintendent Of Schools.
  • 10 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Interest Rate Limitation.
  • 11 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Chiropractors: Rules.
  • 12 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Compensation Of County Supervisors.
  • 13 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Tax Exemption For Disabled Veterans And Blind Veterans.
  • 14 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State Civil Service.
  • 15 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision.
  • 16 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Constitutional Amendments.
  • 17 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision: Social Welfare.
  • 18 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Motor Vehicle Taxation And Revenues.
  • 19 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Usury.
  • 20 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – The Recreation And Fish And Wildlife Enhancement Bond Act.

June 6, 1972

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – The Veterans Bond Act Of 1971.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – The State School Building Aid And Earthquake Reconstruction And Replacement Bond Law Of 1972.
  • 3 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Right To Assistance Of Counsel.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Open Presidential Primary.
  • 5 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Appointment Of Regents, University Of California.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Naturalized Citizen Voting Eligibility.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Valuation Of Single-Family Dwellings For Tax Purposes.
  • 8 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Chiropractors.
  • 9 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Clean Environment Act.
  • 10 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Partial Constitutional Revision.

November 7, 1972

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Bonds To Provide Public Community College Facilities.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Bonds To Provide Health Science Facilities.
  • 3 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Environmental Pollution Bond Authorization.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Legislative Reorganization.
  • 5 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – School Districts.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Miscellaneous Constitutional Revisions.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Elections And Presidential Primary.
  • 8 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Tax Exemption For Anti-Pollution Facilities.
  • 9 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Bond Vote For Structurally Unsafe School Buildings.
  • 10 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Blind Veterans Tax Exemption.
  • 11 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Right Of Privacy.
  • 12 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Disabled Veterans Tax Exemption.
  • 13 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Workmen's Compensation.
  • 14 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Property Tax Limitations.
  • 15 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – State Employee Salaries.
  • 16 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Salaries. California Highway Patrol.
  • 17 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Death Penalty.
  • 18 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Obscenity Legislation.
  • 19 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Marijuana – Removal Of Penalty For Personal Use.
  • 20 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Coastal Zone Conservation Act.
  • 21 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Assignment Of Students To Schools.
  • 22 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Agricultural Labor Relations.

November 6, 1973

  • 1 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Tax And Expenditure Limitations.

June 4, 1974

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Recreational Lands Bond Act.
  • 2

November 5, 1974

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State School Building Aid And Earthquake Reconstruction And Replacement Bond Law.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Charters For Counties And Cities.
  • 3 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Postsecondary Education Commission Personnel – Civil Service.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Regents, University Of California.
  • 5 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Residence Of Local Government Employee.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Property Tax Exemptions.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Declaration Of Rights.
  • 8 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Taxation And State Funds.
  • 9 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Recall Of Public Officers.
  • 10 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Right To Vote.
  • 11 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Miscellaneous Language Changes Regarding Gender.
  • 12 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Public Utilities.
  • 13 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – San Diego County Judicial Districts.
  • 14 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – State College System.
  • 15 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Low Rent Housing.
  • 16 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Student Tuition, University Of California.
  • 17 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Wild And Scenic Rivers Initiative.

June 8, 1976

  • 1 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – The State School Building Lease-Purchase Bond Law Of 1976.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Veterans Bond Act Of 1976.
  • 3 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law Of 1976.
  • 4 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Bonds To Provide Public Community College Facilities.
  • 5 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Banks, Corporations, Franchises And Insurers-Taxation.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Insurance Company Home Office Tax Deduction.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Taxation of Restricted Historic Property.
  • 8 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Deposit of Public Money In Savings and Loan Associations.
  • 9 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Bingo.
  • 10 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Bonds To Refund State Indebtedness.
  • 11 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Motor Vehicle Taxes--Local Surplus Property.
  • 12 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Interest Rate.
  • 13 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Property Tax Postponement.
  • 14 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Miscellaneous Constitutional Revisions.
  • 15 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Nuclear Power Plants-Initiative Statute.

November 2, 1976

  • 1 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Housing Finance Bond Law Of 1975.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Nejedly-Hart State, Urban and Coastal Park Bond Act of 1976.
  • 3 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Residential Energy Conservation Bond Law.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – University of California. Competitive Bidding. Grounds for Denial of Admission.
  • 5 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Interest Rates Allowable.
  • 6 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Bills and Statutes-Effective Date. Governor's Consideration. Referendum.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Judges. Censure, Removal, Judicial Performance Commission.
  • 8 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – County Superintendents of Schools and Boards of Education.
  • 9 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State Constitutional Offices. Filling Vacancies In. Confirmation.
  • 10 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Property Taxation by Local Governments Whose Boundaries Include Area in Two or More Counties.
  • 11 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Tax Rates on Unsecured Property.
  • 12 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Loans by State for Energy Conservation Improvements in Residential Structures.
  • 13 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Greyhound Dog Racing – Initiative Statute.
  • 14 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Agricultural Labor Relations – Initiative Statute.
  • 15 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Chiropractors, Board of Examiners. Licensing Requirements.

June 6, 1978

  • 1 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – State School Building Aid Bond Law of 1978.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Clean Water and Water Conservation Bond Law of 1978.
  • 3 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Taxation Exemption – Alternative Energy Systems.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – City Charters – Boards of Education.
  • 5 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Administrative Agencies.
  • 6 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Sheriffs.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Local Agencies – Insurance Pooling Arrangements.
  • 8 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Owner Occupied Dwellings – Tax Rate.
  • 9 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Interest Rate – Judgments.
  • 10 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Taxation – Rehabilitated Property.
  • 11 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Taxation – County Owned Real Property.
  • 12 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Constitutional Officers, Legislators and Judges Compensation.
  • 13 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Property Tax Limitation.

November 7, 1978

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Veterans Bond Act of 1978.
  • 2 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Public Utilities Commission.
  • 3 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – State Surplus Coastal Property.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Chiropractors. School Accreditation and License Revocation.
  • 5 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – Regulation of Smoking.
  • 6 – <span style="color:red;">Failed</span> – School Employees. Homosexuality.
  • 7 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Murder. Penalty.
  • 8 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Post Disaster Taxation.

November 6, 1979

  • 1 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – School Assignment and Transportation of Pupils.
  • 2 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Loan Interest Rates.
  • 3 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Property Taxation – Veteran's Exemption.
  • 4 – <span style="color:green;">Passed</span> – Limitation of Government Appropriations.