With just 12,000 votes still to count in all of L.A. County, most races have become clear. In the seven primary races for L.A. City Council, we can now say we will see at least three runoffs on the November ballot.
LAist has been delivering a special limited-run newsletter on results. Here's an excerpt from the latest write-up:
Who’s moving on to the general election?
Districts 2, 10 and 14 will go to a runoff in November.
- In District 2, former state Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian (37%) will face neighborhood councilmember Jillian Burgos (22%).
- In District 14, tenant rights attorney Ysabel Jurado is in first place with 24.5% of the vote. She leads the current councilmember, Kevin de León (23.4%).
- Both Jurado and Burgos are progressive candidates who saw late surges of support come in during the final rounds of ballot counting.
- In District 10, incumbent Heather Hutt (38%) will go up against attorney Grace Yoo (23%). Yoo has run for this seat several times in the past, but lost to Mark Ridley Thomas and Herb Wesson.
- The progressive candidates in this race, Eddie Anderson and Aura Vásquez, came in third and fourth place, respectively, and Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer ended up in fifth.
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Who’s keeping their seat?
These three candidates won their seats outright by getting more than 50% of the vote. All three were already on the city council, so you’re unlikely to see many changes in council decision making.
- District 6’s Imelda Padilla – 78% of the vote
- District 8’s Marqueece Harris Dawson – 78% of the vote
- District 12’s John Lee – 62% of the vote
What about District 4?
Nithya Raman passed the 50% threshold needed to win outright yesterday and inched up a little higher in the Wednesday vote release, but she’s above the threshold by a very slim margin. Since there’s no way to know how many of the remaining ballots are in District 4 or who they’re for, we still can’t say how this will play out.
A note on the results
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Keep in mind that in tight races particularly, the winner may not be determined for days or weeks after Election Day. In Los Angeles County, the first batch of results released includes vote-by-mail ballots received before March 5, followed by early votes cast in-person at vote centers, then votes cast in-person on Election Day.
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The results you see are the votes counted through March 29, when they were certified.
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As of March 29, here's where the vote count stands:
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Total count to date:
- 1,641,715 (28.9% of registered voters)
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Estimate still to be counted: 0
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Note: In California, ballots postmarked on or before March 5 are counted toward the results as long as they arrive within seven days of the election (March 12). Results must be certified by county election officials by April 4.
Tracking your ballot
You can track the status of your ballot:
If your mail-in ballot is rejected for any reason (like a missing or mismatched signature), your county registrar must contact you to give you a chance to fix it. In Los Angeles County, the registrar will send you a notification by mail and you have until March 27 to reply and "cure" your ballot.
How we're covering this election
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Early voters and mail-in ballots have fundamentally reshaped how votes are counted and when election results are known.
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Our priority will be sharing outcomes and election calls only when they have been thoroughly checked and vetted. To that end, we will report when candidates concede and otherwise rely on NPR and The Associated Press for race calls. We will not report the calls or projections of other news outlets. You can find more on NPR and The AP's process for counting votes and calling races here, here and here.
