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CD9

On election night Jose Ugarte enjoyed a comfortable roughly 2,500 vote lead over his progressive opponent Estuardo Mazariegos. Every day since then as ballots are tabulated that lead is slowly vanishing. Today it’s down to 702. CD9 has become the last remaining LA City race still in doubt and is on track to truly come down to the wire!

We estimate about 4,900 votes are left in CD9, which means Mazariegos needs about 57% of them. All three of Friday’s counts topped that, at 58.5%, 57.6% and 58.1%, but Mazariegos has taken 56% across all six counts since election night. That pace would leave Ugarte ahead by about 100 votes, while Friday morning’s would put Mazariegos ahead by about 100.

LA supported the billionaires tax

While California’s billionaire tax is failing statewide, LA County supported it, and LA City supported it by even more! Prop. 40 is at 46.3% yes statewide and 54.1% in the county. The newest precinct file the county has posted stops at election night, and it had the city at 56.8% yes when the county was at 51.1%. Inside the city, Bel Air came in at about 25% yes and Echo Park at about 76%.

The county’s next count is due later this afternoon so stay tuned to our live results page for when the ballots come in! You can also read everything we’ve put out on the races at basin.la/elections.

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