After weeks of ballot counting, the Los Angeles County registrar’s office has certified the results of the March 5 primary election for races in which L.A. County voters got to cast ballots.
A total of 1,641,715 ballots were counted, which translated to a voter turnout rate of 28.9% in L.A. County, according to the registrar’s office.
Next, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is expected to declare that the elections have concluded at its April 9 meeting.
Here are the election results as of Friday, March 29 for the Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles Unified School District school board races that have been certified by the county registrar’s office.
For local municipal and school board races, which are nonpartisan, a candidate who received over 50% of the vote won their race outright and won’t have to compete in a runoff election. If no candidate received a majority of the vote, the top two vote-getters will face off in the November general election.
Los Angeles City Council
District 2: In the seven-person race to replace termed-out City Council President Paul Krekorian, former Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian, who previously worked for Krekorian, and small business owner Jillian Burgos, who also serves on the North Hollywood Neighborhood Council, were the top two vote-getters who will face off in November. Nazarian received 37.2% of the vote in the primary election while Burgos had 22.3%.
District 4: Incumbent Nithya Raman narrowly avoided a runoff, capturing 50.7% of the vote to win a second term on the council. She faced two opponents. Her biggest challenger, L.A. Deputy City Attorney Ethan Weaver, received 38.6%, despite backers spending more than $1.35 million in advertising and other independent expenditures to support Weaver or attack Raman. That amount, along with nearly $412,000 in independent expenditures by groups supporting the incumbent made the District 4 race the most expensive L.A. City Council race in the primary in terms of…
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