Race to Become Los Angeles' Next Mayor: What to Know About Top Candidates
Pratt and Raman are pressing Bass on homelessness, audits and wildfire recovery as polls show Bass leading with 25% and Pratt at 11%, according to UCLA.
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From Incumbent Politicians to a Reality Star, Meet the Candidates Vying to Be Los Angeles' Next Mayor
Los Angeles’ mayoral race is heating up — and it’s already shaping up to be an unusually wide-ranging contest. Incumbent Karen Bass has emerged as an early frontrunner, but she faces a crowded field of challengers ranging from progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman to reality TV star-turned-political critic Spencer Pratt. A March poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, found Bass l…
The Los Angeles City Hall elections of 2026 were expected to be quiet and boring: for a time, the re-election of Mayor Karen Bass seemed like a path of roses. But in a dramatic turn — typical of Hollywood — the devastating fire in Palisades in 2015 left twelve dead and thousands of homes destroyed. Bass’ management during the fire led Spencer Pratt, a television personality and fire victim, to challenge the mayor.
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