UPDATED 16:15: Rep. Karen Bass beat developer Rick Caruso in the race for mayor of Los Angeles to become the first woman to run the city. With 70% of the vote counted, the latest update from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Bass has an insurmountable lead of more than 46,500 votes over Caruso.
Caruso led the race heading into Election Day, but was overtaken by Bass last Friday. Since then, Bass has consistently taken the lead in each of the last six updates.
PREVIOUS, November 14: Rep. Karen Bass more than tripled her lead over developer Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayoral race to nearly 30,000 votes today, according to the latest update from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
Bass led Caruso by more than 9,000 votes according to Saturday’s tally. Another 191,312 ballots were added Monday, bringing the total to nearly 1.8 million ballots to date, with Bass now holding a 52% to 48% lead over Caruso.
However, hundreds of thousands of ballots across the country are still uncounted and it could take days or even weeks to determine a winner. It was unclear how many of the uncounted votes came from voters in the city of Los Angeles.
The last four updates after Election Day have all resulted in gains for Bass, who took the lead in the vote count on Friday and has extended it since.
EARLY November 11: Karen Bass passed Rick Caruso in the final vote count in the race to be the next Los Angeles mayor. New totals from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office show Bass leading by 4,384 votes – 50.38% to Caruso’s 49.62%. Today, Caruso led by 2,695 votes.
EARLY November 10: Karen Bass has cut Rick Caruso’s lead in the race for Los Angeles mayor to just 2,700 votes, according to updated election results released today by the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. This margin of 2,700 comes from the almost 1.5 million votes that were cast in the city election.
Bass was 12,000 votes short early Wednesday morning when the clerk’s office was last checked
released an update. Another 134,099 ballots returned in the mail on Election Day were added to the tally Thursday afternoon, bringing the total number of ballots counted to 1,452,192.
Late Wednesday, the County Clerk’s office said there were about 1 million ballots still to be counted, though the office did not say how many of those were from the city of Los Angeles.
EARLY November 9: Campaigners are closely watching Los Angeles County’s notoriously slow ballot count this morning as developer Rick Caruso opens up a lead over Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) retained.
Caruso leads with 51.25% ahead of Bass with 48.75%, with 44% reporting.
Both candidates reached out to supporters earlier this morning, although it could take days to determine a winner.
“I know that together we have the power and the plans to end street homelessness, stop corruption, and ultimately build a better future for LA – a future where every Angeleno can thrive,” Caruso said in one tweet.
“We will not know the final outcome of tonight’s election, but we do know that we have made history with our movement,” Bass wrote.
In another race that drew a lot of interest from the entertainment industry, Robert Luna had a comfortable lead over incumbent Alex Villanueva, 56.78% to 43.22%.
EARLY 10:26 PM PT: Early results tonight in the hotly contested race for Los Angeles’ next mayor were close, as developer Rick Caruso led Rep. Karen Bass led by less than 2,000 votes with 12% of the vote.
According to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, Caruso had a slight lead over Bass with 50.26% of the vote, compared to Bass’ 49.74%.
Who voted for Karen Bass and who voted for Rick Caruso in Hollywood?
Early results included absentee ballots cast before Election Day and ballots cast at the voting center before Election Day. Even a small lead for Caruso is noteworthy, as he was once well behind Bass. A poll by the Los Angeles Times and UC Berkeley in late October showed the race closing after Bass held a significant lead early in the campaign. Experts have warned that the race is unlikely to take place today.
Bass, a six-term congressman, is seeking to become the first woman and second black person to lead Los Angeles. Caruso, a real estate billionaire, wants to launch a campaign that is on track to spend more than $100 million — a large portion of Caruso’s own fortune being spent to propel him into the fray.
Bass had a comfortable lead in the polls just a month ago, but the primary poll showed Caruso closing the gap significantly. Bass led Caruso 45% to 41%, a gap within the margin of error of 4%. In addition, the poll found that 13% of voters were undecided.
A Southern California News Group poll conducted Oct. 15-17 by J. Wallin Opinion Research found a 3-point lead for Caruso, also within margin of error.
An earlier version of UC Berkeley’s IGS poll in early October showed Bass with a 15-point lead among likely voters.
Whoever wins the election will take the lead in a city grappling with a scandal that rocked City Hall last month after three councilors and a senior provincial labor official attended a leaked conversation with racists in October 2021 . Comments and attempts to manipulate redistribution.
“We had a very volatile month in LA County, and Rick Caruso made a late push here that clearly made a significant difference, at least in the polls,” said Mindy Romero, director of the USC Center for Inclusion Democracy, said.
Caruso has been criticized for using his personal fortune to finance his campaign. But he said he didn’t
will take money from interest groups, not be led by lobbyists and will have the city’s welfare at heart.
Bass also criticized Caruso for switching political parties. A Republican until 2019, Caruso has donated to anti-abortion groups, allowing Bass to brand himself as a “lifetime Democrat for election” in a heavily Democratic city.
Both candidates acknowledged the seriousness of Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis, but disagreed on how to deal with it. The latest homeless census, released this month, showed a 1.7% increase in the number of homeless people in Los Angeles since 2020 to 41,980. growth of the problem.
The first results from Tuesday’s vote were released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk just after 8 p.m., but experts warned people not to read too much into it as millions of votes are still being counted by mail. A close race may not be certain until later this week.
The City News Service contributed to this report.
Author: Tom Tick
Source: Deadline
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