Rules governing elections are generating novel possible outcomes in the races for California’s two top executive offices — the governorship and the mayoralty of Los Angeles — and in LA they’re producing strange bedfellows as well. The rules and strategies for Los Angeles municipal elections are different from those at the state level, so these two races are not mirrors of each other. The city race also is different from the governor’s in that Los Angeles has an incumbent, Bass, who won comfortably four years ago. And finally, Los Angeles is different from California because LA is even more liberal than the state whose politics it anchors. Last: Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman spoke at a National Coming Out Day event in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2024.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 02, 2026 12:15 UTC