Follow along for live results from California's Nov. 3 election. Polls closed in California’s midterm election at 8 p.m. Results are now trickling in from counties across the state. Follow along here on SFGATE’s live results page for the latest on the highest-profile state and local races. Those include the governor’s race between Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, Proposition 40’s billionaire tax, San Francisco’s Measure G on the Great Highway, and the.