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Bass 'on track to win' L.A. mayor's race as lead grows to more than 29,000 votes
Los Angeles TimesU.S. Rep. Karen Bass moved closer to victory in the still-undecided Los Angeles mayor’s race Monday, with an updated vote tally showing the congresswoman leading real estate developer Rick Caruso by more than 4 percentage points nearly a week after polls closed.
The results are not yet definitive, and thousands of votes probably remain to be counted. But the latest release saw Bass continue to build her lead, with experts saying they struggled to see a path for Caruso to make up the ground ceded to Bass over the last several days of results.
She would be the first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles and only the second Black Angeleno to lead the city.
Bass now holds a 52.15% to 47.85% lead, or 29,271 votes, according to the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office. Monday’s update heavily favored Bass, with the congresswoman taking in 63% of the more than 76,100 newly counted ballots. Votes cast in the city of Los Angeles accounted for about 40% of the latest tranche, which included 191,312 ballots in total.
The results are not yet definitive, and thousands of votes probably remain to be counted. But the latest release saw Bass continue to build her lead, with experts saying they struggled to see a path for Caruso to make up the ground ceded to Bass over the last several days of results.
She would be the first woman elected mayor of Los Angeles and only the second Black Angeleno to lead the city.
Bass now holds a 52.15% to 47.85% lead, or 29,271 votes, according to the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office. Monday’s update heavily favored Bass, with the congresswoman taking in 63% of the more than 76,100 newly counted ballots. Votes cast in the city of Los Angeles accounted for about 40% of the latest tranche, which included 191,312 ballots in total.