Votes are still being counted in Los Angeles.
Voters in Los Angeles hit the polls on June 2nd to cast their vote for the next mayor of Los Angeles but now four days later only 71% of the vote has been counted.
So far no candidate has reached the 50% threshold needed to become the next mayor but current Democrat mayor Karen Bass has already snagged enough votes to be in the upcoming run-off election.
Coming in at second place is Spencer Pratt who currently has 28.2% of the vote and in third is Nithya Raman who is sitting at 24.9%.
Take a look:
The New York Times reported the election results will still take a “few weeks”:
Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman are in a slow-speed chase for the chance to advance to the November election for mayor of Los Angeles.
Mr. Pratt, a reality TV star and registered Republican, ended election night on Tuesday with 30.4 percent of the nearly 500,000 ballots tabulated to that point in the primary.
But hundreds of thousands of ballots still remained to be counted over the course of the following few weeks, and those ballots were expected to favor Democrats. That raised the question of whether Ms. Raman, a progressive Democrat who ended election night with 22.3 percent of the vote, could catch up.
In updates to the vote count provided on Wednesday and Thursday, Ms. Raman did notably better among the 60,000 newly counted ballots than Mr. Pratt. On Thursday evening, Mr. Pratt’s share of the vote tabulated so far was down to 29.4 percent, and Ms. Raman’s share was up to 23.4 percent.
Karen Bass, the Democratic incumbent mayor of Los Angeles, remained in first place with 35 percent of the vote and will proceed to the November election.
Los Angeles County wasn’t able to provide an estimate of the number of ballots that remained to be counted in the city. But based on historical patterns and other data, there could be between 250,000 and 300,000 ballots from city voters left to count in the race.
Podcaster Patrick Bet-David has claimed the election is being stolen in plain sight:
“Stolen In PLAIN SIGHT” – Spencer Pratt’s Odds TANK In RIGGED LA Mayor’s Race pic.twitter.com/ltbH9KGfuj
— PBD Podcast (@PBDsPodcast) June 5, 2026
NBC News reported the DOJ is currently probing the election:
A federal prosecutor in California said Friday that authorities have launched investigations tied to the state’s recent elections following President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said Friday morning on X that his office was pursuing “multiple election fraud investigations” alongside the FBI, without providing details.
“We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent,” said Essayli, who criticized California’s mail voting — a frequent target of Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
Around the same time as Essayli’s post, a federal prosecutor from the U.S. attorney’s office visited the ballot processing center for Los Angeles County, the L.A. County registrar’s office told NBC News on Friday.
Here’s what President Trump had to say about the LA mayoral race:
There’s BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California. Votes are all tied up. May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY??? President DJT pic.twitter.com/kicq2DLFG9
— Whiplash347 (@Whiplash437) June 5, 2026
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