{"id":1019,"date":"2026-06-07T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:00:13","slug":"raman-closes-in-on-pratt-as-more-votes-in-l-a-mayors-race-are-tallied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Raman closes in on Pratt as more votes in L.A. mayor\u2019s race are tallied"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman cut deeper into the lead of reality television personality Spencer Pratt on Saturday, as his lead slimmed to just a single percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1017\">Judge pauses USDA plan to tie SNAP benefits to Trump\u2019s gender, immigration ideology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pratt fell to just over 27% of the vote while Raman jumped up to slightly over 26%, according to the results from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder. Pratt now leads Raman by just 7,494 votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen Nithya Raman catching up on every update and the last two in particular she\u2019s accelerated,\u201d said Paul Mitchell, vice president of the bipartisan voter data firm Political Data Inc. \u201cShe\u2019s continued to gain at a rate that means she will eventually catch up unless Pratt starts getting some ballots coming in that are either geographically or demographically better for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic consultant Michael Trujillo, who doesn\u2019t represent anyone in the mayoral race, said the results suggest Raman will surpass Pratt as more votes are counted. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s over,\u201d Trujillo said. \u201cIt appears Nithya will be in the runoff. Pratt doesn\u2019t appear to be growing much more.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The second-place finisher in the mayoral primary will face Mayor Karen Bass in a Nov. 3 runoff. On election night Tuesday, the Associated Press determined that Bass had secured enough votes to qualify for the runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt has been in second place since then, but Raman has gradually eroded his lead as mail-in ballots have been counted. The updated vote tally released Thursday showed Pratt with 29% of the vote and Raman with 23%. <\/p>\n<p>With Friday\u2019s update, Raman\u2019s share had risen to 25% and Pratt\u2019s shrank to 28%, for a 3 percentage point gap.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent batch of mail-in ballots counted, Raman received 23,514 votes, while Pratt gained 10,336. <\/p>\n<p>Election analysts expected Raman to gain ground as the mail-in ballots were tallied, reasoning that many left-of-center voters \u2014 Raman\u2019s base \u2014 held onto their mail-in ballots until the last minute as they waited to choose between Democratic gubernatorial candidates. They also say younger, more progressive voters tend to hold onto their ballots longer generally.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1015\">Proud Boy booted from Spencer Pratt election night party<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the mayor\u2019s race is nonpartisan, Pratt is a Republican in a city that is overwhelmingly dominated by Democratic voters and elected officials. <\/p>\n<p>A poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which was co-sponsored by The Times, had Pratt running in third place behind Bass and Raman. <\/p>\n<p>The poll of 1,351 likely voters conducted May 19-24 had Bass with 26% support, Raman with 25% support and Pratt with 22% support, with a 3% margin of error. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles voters have become accustomed to seeing election results change as late-arriving ballots are tabulated. In the 2022 mayoral primary, real estate developer Rick Caruso led the pack for about a week before Bass pulled ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt was favored in many of the same neighborhoods that voted for Caruso, according to a Times analysis of precinct-level returns provided by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder on Wednesday, when an estimated 62% of the projected vote had been counted. Raman, by comparison, made inroads in progressive areas dominated by Bass four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt, whose Pacific Palisades fire home burned in the January 2025 fire, was strong there and on the Westside, as well as in the San Fernando Valley communities of Encino, Woodland Hills, Chatsworth and Sunland-Tujunga.<\/p>\n<p>Raman dominated precincts known for their progressive politics, particularly those with younger people in renter-heavy neighborhoods stretching from Hollywood to Highland Park, including her home base of Silver Lake. <\/p>\n<p>Mail-in ballots with an election day postmark will continue to be accepted by county election officials through Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1013\">For mayoral candidates and all of L.A., here\u2019s the homelessness conversation we must have<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest vote tally Saturday evening showed Nithya Raman closing the gap with Spencer Pratt in the L.A. mayor&#8217;s race, now behind by 1 percentage point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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