LOS ANGELES, CA — Spencer Pratt remained securely in second place in the mayor's race after the latest ballot-count results were released by election officials Wednesday afternoon.
Though the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's Office will continue counting ballots for the next two weeks, Mayor Karen Bass' comfortable lead led the Associated Press to conclude that the incumbent had secured her place in the November runoff on election night.
Still to be determined is who will face off against Bass in November.
The registrar's office released another round of ballot-count results on Wednesday afternoon, which showed Bass with 34.97% of the vote, Pratt with 29.91% and progressive Councilwoman Nithya Raman with 22.81%.
Pratt's lead for second place shrunk slightly compared to the previous ballot-count update, which had Pratt at 30.44% and Raman at 22.32%.
On Wednesday, Adam Miller and Rae Huang remained in a distant third and fourth place. They had 3.92% and 2.78%, respectively.
The registrar will report additional ballot-count results no more than once daily through June 26 until all ballots are counted, according to the office.
Raman wasn't ready to concede Tuesday night.
Addressing her supporters, the candidate said “tonight may not give us the final answer on this race. Many thousands of votes will be counted in the days ahead, and we may not get an answer we like. But regardless of what happens next, nobody, nobody can take away what all of us have built together,” Raman said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
It has been 21 years since a sitting Los Angeles mayor was forced into a runoff after a first term in office. In 2005, then-City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa defeated incumbent Mayor James Hahn, who was seeking reelection.
Hahn became the first incumbent to lose reelection in 32 years since Sam Yorty lost to Tom Bradley in the 1973 mayoral election.
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City News Service contributed to this report.
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