By Eleanor Boswell-Raine, Globe Editor

Voters soundly defeated all of the items on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s special election ballot on Tuesday.
    The “year of reform” turned out to be the “year of no confidence” in a man who just two years ago came to the governor’s chair in a sweeping recall election and was proclaimed a rising star among politicians in America.
    Instead, a defeated Schwarzenegger got the message that voters were not happy with his special election and reform agenda.

Unofficial election results
Alameda County: Measures

Measure A - Albany Unified School District (3 of 13 precincts reporting)
Yes 3,301 No 1,564
Measure B - Castro Valley Unified School District (99 of 99 precincts reporting) Yes 8,238 No 4,880
Measure C - Emeryville (5 of 5 precincts reporting)
Yes 980 No 832
Measure D - Livermore (56 of 56 precincts reporting)
Yes 6,142 No 15,911
Measure E - Livermore (56 of 56 precincts reporting)
Yes 15,241 No 5,653

Unofficial election results
Alameda County: Candidates

Emeryville City Council (Two to be elected, 5 of 5 precincts reporting)
John Fricke 953
Ed Treuting 766
Dick Kassis 974

Livermore Mayor (One to be elected, 56 of 56 precincts reporting)
Marshall Kamena 14,127
David Mertes 7,331

Livermore City Council (Two to be elected, 56 of 56 precincts reporting)
Bill Aboumrad 5,077
Tom Bramell 6,433
Tom Reitter 11,498
John Stein 5,366
John Marchand 9,586

Newark City Council (Two to be elected, 28 of 28 precincts reporting)
Bob Marshall 3,568
Alan Nagy 4,332
Ana Apodaca 3,952

Source: Bay City News, Inc.