Spencer Pratt and Nithya Raman‘s race for the runoff election is getting closer and closer.
The latest update on the vote count has seen the councilwoman’s gap to the reality star narrow.
Spencer and Nithya have been vying for votes to defeat incumbent Karen Bass for months now, and the latest poll numbers are revealing a smaller gap between them.
What are the latest poll numbers in the LA Mayor race?
Spencer is still leading Nithya in the latest update on Saturday (June 6), but his lead has gotten much smaller.
At the time of the post, per NBC 4 Los Angeles, Spencer holds 27.3% of the votes, while Nithya has 26.2% percent, and she has 177k to his 184k.
Only about 77.7% of the expected votes have been counted.
Current mayor Karen Bass has already advanced to the November runoff election, with her current count at 34.8% with 235k votes.
The top 2 candidates will move on to a November runoff election
A candidate will need at least 50% of the vote from Tuesday’s election to win the mayoral seat, and if they don’t reach that threshold, the top two will go up against each other in November’s general election.
It does not look like there will be one candidate who receives 50% of the vote.
In the 2026 Los Angeles Mayor race, Karen Bass has secured her spot in the November 3 runoff election. She will either face TV personality Spencer Pratt or City Councilmember Nithya Raman.
Can Spencer Pratt advance to the runoff election in November?
Democratic consultant Michael Trujillo, who does not represent any of the candidates suggests that Nithya will surpass Spencer, ending his mayoral campaign.
“I think it’s over,” he told the LA Times. “It appears Nithya will be in the runoff. Pratt doesn’t appear to be growing much more.”
Nithya‘s growing count comes as more mail-in ballots are counted. There’s currently no expected date for the final tally to be revealed. The 2022 election results took a week of counting.
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