CD3 flipped, CD9 is closing, and Silver Lake and Bel Air swapped sides
Los Angeles County posted a new count at 9:21 this morning, and the race for the 3rd District flipped.
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The count
Los Angeles County posted a new count at 9:21 this morning, and the race for the 3rd District flipped. Nithya Raman’s lead over Karen Bass in the race for mayor grew to 34,654 votes. The count isn’t finished, so stay tuned on our live results page!
CD3
Barri Worth Girvan has passed Tim Gaspar in the 3rd District and leads by 230 votes, 50.2% to 49.8%. Gaspar had led every update since 8:31 on election night, 22 in a row, and was ahead by 294 votes after the 4:28 count on Wednesday. Girvan took 58.8% of the 2,978 votes in the 9:21 count, and by our estimate more than a quarter of the vote is still out.
CD9
Jose Ugarte still leads Estuardo Mazariegos in the 9th District, 53.0% to 47.0%, but the lead is down to 1,672 votes from 1,898 on Wednesday afternoon. It has narrowed at six straight updates, and Mazariegos took 57.1% of the 1,588 votes in the 9:21 count. By our estimate about 11,500 votes are left, so Mazariegos needs about 57% of them to pass Ugarte.
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Silver Lake and Bel Air
In 2022, Karen Bass won Silver Lake and lost Bel Air to Rick Caruso. Now she’s losing Silver Lake to Raman and winning Bel Air. By neighborhood council area, her share of the vote in Silver Lake fell from 77% to 33%, and in Bel Air it rose from 38% to 73%. Bel Air went from one of her three worst neighborhoods in the city to one of her three best, and Silver Lake went from one of her top five to one of her bottom ten.
The 2026 numbers stop at the 3:11 a.m. count on Wednesday, so they leave out the last two counts. Those have leaned toward Raman, but neither neighborhood is close enough for that to change who’s ahead. Every precinct and neighborhood is on our election map.
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