City of Santa Rosa v. Bower

Municipal Charter—Ratification at General Municipal Election— Majority of Votes Cast.—Where the ratification of a municipal charter framed by freeholders of a city under section 8 of article XI of the constitution was submitted to the voters at the general municipal election, the charter is not adopted merely because it received a majority of the votes cast thereupon if it did not receive a majority of all the votes east at the municipal election.