Here’s how your neighborhood voted for Los Angeles mayor

In the race for Los Angeles mayor, incumbent Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman will face each other in the Nov. 3 runoff.

Los Angeles County elections officials certified the results of the 2026 primary Friday, with the final tally for mayor coming in north of 850,000 votes.

Bass earned more than a third of the vote, with challenger Raman following in second with 29%. Reality television personality Spencer Pratt, who was in second place on election night, saw his placement fall to third as mail-in ballots were counted.

This map shows the margin and density of votes by precinct. Areas where a candidate leads by a wide margin, such as East Hollywood for Raman, appear darker on the map. More densely populated neighborhoods — such as Bass strongholds in Baldwin Hills and Crenshaw — appear in brighter colors.

Bass swept in precincts across South L.A., continuing her electoral success in those neighborhoods from the 2022 primary campaign. Throughout the city, she won nearly half of all precincts and carried 35 Latino-majority neighborhoods including Boyle Heights, Pacoima and Historic South-Central.

Pratt earned strong support from his neighbors in the Pacific Palisades, as well as in Bel-Air and Brentwood. He also held the lead in neighborhoods on the city’s periphery, such as the western half of the San Fernando Valley, San Pedro and Tujunga.

Raman, who represents Los Feliz, Hollywood Hills, Sherman Oaks and Encino on the City Council, earned a third of the vote in her home District 4. At least 14 precincts out of 60 in the district, mainly in the valley, swung heavily for Pratt.

Raman also did well in predominantly Asian neighborhoods, such as Chinatown, Palms and Sawtelle, and in Hollywood.

A Times analysis of county election results found a 30% increase in ballots cast in this month’s election compared with the 2022 primary, when the mayor and California governor were both last on the ballot. Meanwhile, the county saw a slight decrease in vote-by-mail ballots, indicating a return to in-person voting.

Despite faster ballot counting this year, it took the Associated Press a week to call the hotly contested second spot on the November ballot for Raman.