Raman Leads Bass in Uncalled Los Angeles Mayor’s Race

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman moved ahead of Mayor Karen Bass in the latest reported vote counts Wednesday, but the mayoral race remained uncalled as ballots continued to be tallied. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder reported Raman with 338,740 votes, or 50.30%, to Bass’s 334,762 votes, or 49.70%, in one Wednesday update. The count was not a final result. Earlier Wednesday, another update cited by the registrar showed Raman leading 51.1% to 48.9%, a margin of roughly 8,658 votes, with more than 700,000 votes recorded. The figures reflect changing snapshots as counting progressed; the race had not been called by election-night reports, and officials were expected to issue further updates. The early returns had favored Bass. An election-night account reported her ahead 50.4% to 49.6% with just over half the vote counted. A separate account put her lead at 50.7% to 49.3% at 11 p.m. Tuesday, with half of expected ballots counted. Raman subsequently closed the gap and took the lead in the reported tallies. Both candidates had been level at 40% among likely voters in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll released in the final week of the campaign,...