October 8, 2024
KQED: California’s Latino Voting Power Grows, But Many Aren’t Reaching Elected Office
From 2012 to 2022, 2.1 million Latinos in California became eligible to vote, according to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, an advocacy and research organization. The group estimates that 4.8 million Latines will vote in the state in November, a whopping 200% jump from the 1.6 million who voted in 2000. The Bay Area has roughly 62% people of color. Yet people of color hold just 37% of top local elected offices, according to the Bay Area Equity Atlas, a data resource produced by the San Francisco Foundation, PolicyLink and the USC Equity Research Institute.
