LA City Council Election Updates: Ugarte, Worth Girvan Ahead

LOS ANGELES, CA — Estuardo Mazariegos is less than 1,000 votes behind Jose Ugarte in the race for Los Angeles Council District 9's open seat, according to results announced Friday by the Los Angeles County Registrar- Recorder/County Clerk's office

In the West San Fernando Valley, Barri Worth Girvan extended her lead over Tim Gaspar to represent Council District 3, which includes Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, Reseda and Winnetka.

It was unclear how many ballots remained to be counted in the race. According to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office, an estimated 414,000 ballots from Tuesday's election remain to be tallied countywide. It's unknown how many of those are from the city of Los Angeles.

The next election results update is scheduled for Saturday at 4 p.m.

Mazariegos and Ugarte are vying to succeed City Councilman Curren Price -- who is termed out -- as the representative for Council District 9, which stretches from downtown Los Angeles to South Los Angeles.

Ugarte, a former deputy chief of staff to Price, has 16,855 votes, or 51.40%, to 15,939 votes, or 48.60%, for Mazariegos, a co-director of the Los Angeles chapter of the nonprofit organization Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.

Mazariegos has chipped away at Ugarte's lead since election night.

The winner will be the first Latino to represent the district since Edward Roybal resigned in 1962 to take a seat in the House. All the council members to represent the district since then have been Black.

As of Friday afternoon, Worth Girvan held a 1,327-vote lead over Gaspar in the race for the Third District seat. She now leads 51.07% to Gaspar's 48.93%, or 31,776-30,449. Worth Girvan has worked for a series of elected officials, including most recently, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath.

Worth Girvan and Gaspar vying to replace longtime City Councilman Bob Blumenfield, who is also termed out. Worth Girvan had trailed Gaspar until Thursday when she pulled ahead, and has since led .

"In our own race, we have taken the lead, and we are encouraged by the trend. While many ballots remain to be counted and results will continue to shift, we expect this trend to continue as more mail-in ballots are tallied, and we remain cautiously optimistic that when all the votes are counted, we will prevail," Worth Girvan said in a statement Thursday.

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