Results from Tuesday’s Los Angeles mayoral primary are still rolling in, and locals can keep track of the count and who’s voting for which candidate through an interactive vote-tracking hub.
As of Friday morning, at least 65% of the city’s ballots, or around 557,000 votes, had been counted so far. Some 700,000 in Los Angeles County still need to be processed.
Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass is already projected to advance from the primary to the November general election. So far, Bass had 35% of the vote share.
Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt and socialist-linked city Councilmember Nithya Raman are currently battling over the No. 2 spot to make the runoff, with Pratt holding 29% of the vote to Raman’s 23%.
The VoteHub map of Los Angeles shows Bass retaining support in majority heavily black neighborhoods in South and Central LA, with precincts near Inglewood and Westmont showing the highest support.
Pratt, whom Republicans and independents have coalesced around, is getting most of his support from the outer areas of the cities
The reality star, whose house burned down in the Palisades Fire, saw his votes heavily concentrated in that community. He also has support across a handful of voting precincts in the San Fernando Valley, though Bass remained competitive in that area, too.
Raman’s highest base of support came from East Hollywood, where the population trends younger and heavy with renters, according to VoteHub.
As election officials process the remaining mailed-in ballots arriving after Election Day — which tend to lean Democratic — Raman has slowly been cutting on Pratt’s lead.
Political strategists are closely watching every batch drop of voting results to see how much of them the councilmember has claimed.
Regardless of the final matchup, the results have shown that voters are not happy about the current direction of the city, pollster John McLaughlin told The California Post. Bass is the first incumbent mayor since 2005 to not win a majority in the primary to outright win the election and avoid a runoff.
“Anytime an incumbent scores less 50%, they’re extremely vulnerable,” McLaughlin said.
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The Bass campaign hasn’t made it a secret that it would prefer Pratt as the challenger in a heavily blue Los Angeles. Raman edging out Pratt lead could complicate Bass’ calculations.
If Pratt advances, he faces a tall task in unseating Bass, McLaughlin said.
“It’s an opportunity for Pratt, but he has to get Democrats to identify with him and say they’re going to vote for him, and he hasn’t done that yet. That’s why he only got 30%,” McLaughlin said of the vote count so far.
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