Californians, who have historically supported efforts to raise the minimum wage, were not swayed this time around.After two weeks of postelection uncertainty, Proposition 32, the initiative to increase the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour,

Prop 32, which would have brought the state’s minimum wage up to $18 per hour, was the first minimum-wage measure to lose at the ballot in almost three decades.

California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have raised the minimum wage for most workers to $18 an hour.