Mapping the 2026 LA Election
Bass led Bel Air and Baldwin Hills. Raman led Echo Park, East Hollywood and Boyle Heights.
The Basin
Live election resultsBass vs. Raman, and the rest of the 2026 elections in Southern CaliforniaYour Government
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Roll Call
Los Angeles publishes no attendance record
We derived one from the roll calls themselves.
16officials
23bodies
299,589roll calls
Money
Police officer pay vs. teacher salary in 440 California cities
Teachers out-earn the police in 46 out of 440 California cities… none of them in LA County
LA County has one in nine of America’s parking businesses… nearly twice as many as Texas
Elections
The top words in LA’s runoff ads, by candidate
The words LA’s mayoral race is spending the most to say
Early ballot returns are high in Pratt’s best districts and low in Raman’s and Bass’s
Politics
The California company that has made $158 million off Trump’s ICE raids (and that LA still contracts with)
Los Angeles County lost 165 people a day for five years. We ran the next century four ways
Last night’s mayoral debate asked about one Sherman Oaks house. There are 1,651 like it
Running tally
The money in the mayor's race
27 days to November 3
Karen Bass
Incumbent mayor · 4,507 donors
$12.16M
behind this campaign
From donors$4,906,438
Public matching funds$2,235,440
Outside money for$5,015,455
Outside money against$606,679
Nithya Raman
Councilmember, CD 4 · 3,463 donors
$7.59M
behind this campaign
From donors$2,077,703
Public matching funds$2,664,753
Outside money for$2,842,908
Outside money against$3,724,966
Donor money and public matching funds run through September 19, 2026, the last period the candidates' own committees have filed. Outside money runs through October 6, 2026, because independent committees report within 24 hours of spending, while candidate committees file on a fixed calendar. Get the data.
Who pays to lobby Los Angeles
Every client that has paid a registered lobbying firm since 2005, with the filers' own name variants resolved into one company. Nine of the top ten develop land or sell advertising that hangs on it.
| 1 | AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) Real estate and venues | $12.65M | |
| 2 | Clear Channel Outdoor Outdoor advertising | $10.93M | |
| 3 | Harridge Development Group / CRE-HAR Real estate | $10.89M | |
| 4 | Westfield / URW / ASUR Real estate and airport concessions | $9.76M | |
| 5 | LaTerra Development Real estate | $8.94M | |
| 6 | Champion Real Estate Company Real estate | $8.17M | |
| 7 | Atlas Capital Group Real estate | $7.75M | |
| 8 | Chick-fil-A Restaurants | $7.65M | |
| 9 | CIM Group Real estate | $7.45M | |
| 10 | Millennium Partners Real estate | $6.36M |
Source: Basin analysis of City Ethics Commission lobbying disclosures. $1.159 billion in disclosed payments, 2005 through the second quarter of 2026.