{"id":1301,"date":"2026-06-07T04:35:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2026-06-07T04:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:35:32","slug":"late-ballot-dumps-may-just-put-socialist-over-republican-days-after-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Late Ballot Dumps May Just Put Socialist Over Republican Days After Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The likelihood of Socialist Democrat Nithya Raman being elected Los Angeles\u2019s next mayor is surging following multiple late-breaking ballot dumps nearly a week after polls closed and despite having trailed Republican Spencer Pratt by ten points on Election Day.<\/p>\n

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The Indian-born Los Angeles city councilwoman who entered the race in February sits in third place at the time of writing Saturday night. She is just one percentage point behind Pratt, a former reality star with whom she is competing for the second spot in November\u2019s runoff election, according to The Associated Press (AP). With 78% of ballots counted, incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has 34.6% of the vote, Pratt has 27.3%, and Raman has 26.2%.<\/p>\n

While AP has already projected Bass will advance to the November runoff, it is unclear if she will face the challenger from her left or from her right.<\/p>\n

Securing 46% of the vote as of election night, Pratt had a ten-point lead over Raman: his 30.1% compared to her 20.2%, according to AP. This gap shrank to seven points just hours later; the following day, 63% of the vote was counted. By Thursday, when 71% of the vote was counted, Pratt was leading the socialist by only four points. (RELATED: Left-Wing Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman Weeps As She Falls Behind Republican Candidate Spencer Pratt)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRaman needed to beat Pratt by 8.7 points in the remaining vote today. Instead, she won this drop by 22.5 points, and it was a large batch,\u201d VoteHub head of data science Zachary Donnini wrote late Saturday on X. \u201cThat puts Nithya Raman on track to join Karen Bass in a November runoff between two Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Media strategist and Mobile Dev Memo founder Eric Seufert wrote on X that Friday night\u2019s drop of just under 60,000 ballots split 39% for Raman, 34% for Bass, and only 18% for Pratt. He added that this batch of ballots \u201cwas the largest outside of the initial election-night drop\u201d and \u201cthe first in which Raman took the largest share.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raman chairs the Council of the District of Columbia\u2019s Housing and Homelessness Committee and notably led opposition to an ordinance, supported by Bass, which would have cleaned out a homeless encampment in an area citizens have witnessed murders. The ordinance still overwhelmingly passed, with the socialist casting one of the four dissenting votes on the Council.<\/p>\n

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Pratt, who starred in the 2000\u2019s MTV reality series \u201cThe Hills,\u201d lost his home in the Palisades Fire in January 2025. Bass\u2019s response to the devastating fire was widely panned across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

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In the days before the race, the former reality star appears to have underestimated the socialist\u2019s support by focusing his energy on Bass, who he had extensively criticized\u00a0throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n

During a May 28 appearance on Fox News \u2014 the Thursday before Election Day \u2014 Pratt called Raman \u201cirrelevant,\u201d citing her falling support in prediction markets.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the debate [on] the betting apps she went from 65% to\u2014 I think she\u2019s at 5%. She\u2019s so irrelevant I think we should just focus on Bass,\u201d he said on \u201cFox & Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due to Los Angeles\u2019s strong Democratic lean, Pratt would be a heavy underdog against Bass if he manages to make the runoff election. A head-to-head matchup between Bass and Raman would likely be harder to predict due to both the candidates being Democrats.<\/p>\n

If Raman manages to edge out Pratt and unseat the incumbent mayor in November, Los Angeles would join the other two of the U.S.\u2019s three largest cities in choosing an avowed leftist mayor over a more moderate Democrat. In 2025, now-New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani defeated former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in both the primary and general elections. Two years earlier, left-leaning Mayor Brandon Johnson bested the more moderate Paul Vallas in Chicago\u2019s mayoral election.<\/p>\n

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