Mapping the 2026 Southern California Elections
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Live election resultsBass vs. Raman, and the rest of the 2026 elections in Southern CaliforniaMore in Elections
LA’s police union spent $9 million on city races and lost most of them… Now it has to bargain with the winners
About $8 million of the Police Protective League’s election money was spent on the losing side, most of it on ads against Nithya Raman, who won the mayor’s race. Its contract expires in June, and talks can start now.
L.A. Mayor Polls: Bass vs. Raman
Every poll of the Bass-Raman runoff we could check, who paid for it, and what it found. Raman leads all three independent polls.
Bass has surged after election night before… So has Raman
Karen Bass trailed Rick Caruso when election night ended in 2022 and won by 9.7 points. In June, the ballots counted after election night lifted Nithya Raman from third place into tonight’s runoff, and in 2024 they carried her past the 50% she needed to keep her council seat without one.
The top words in LA’s runoff ads, by candidate
For each candidate in the Nov. 3 runoffs for mayor, city attorney and the 3rd and 9th council districts, the eight words or phrases that the most outside money paid to put in front of voters.
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The words LA’s mayoral race is spending the most to say
Outside groups backing Nithya Raman have put more than three-quarters of their money into ads that say “homelessness,” and most of the money backing Karen Bass has gone to ads that say “safer.”
Early ballot returns are high in Pratt’s best districts and low in Raman’s and Bass’s
Through Tuesday’s mail, the two West Valley districts where Spencer Pratt ran best have returned a third as many ballots as they cast in the June primary.
Equal turnout would have moved the mayor’s race by one point
Turnout in the June 2026 primary ran from 16.03 percent in Watts to 57.01 percent in Studio City, a 3.6-fold gap across 99 neighborhoods.
Bass’s campaign says Nithya Raman missed 3,000 council votes. The real number is 2,966, and an estimated 519 trace to her AQMD board seat
At Wednesday’s debate, Karen Bass’s campaign accused Nithya Raman of skipping close to 3,000 council votes since she took office.
The only other Los Angeles mayoral election that looks like 2026 was in 1969
Karen Bass led the June primary with 34.27 percent, the smallest share a sitting Los Angeles mayor has ever finished first with.
Karen Bass’s best districts had the city’s worst primary turnout, and it is not obvious whether that hurts her or Raman
Across the fifteen council districts, turnout in the June primary correlates with Bass’s share at -0.575.
