LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Voters in Los Angeles remain largely undecided in the mayor’s race, with 40% still weighing their options ahead of the June 2 primary, according to a UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs poll released Friday.<\/p>\n
Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass led the field with 25% support, followed by reality television personality Spencer Pratt at 11% and City Councilmember Nithya Raman at 9%.<\/p>\n
The poll showed housing advocate Rae Chen Huang and nonprofit executive Adam Miller each drew 3%, while 9% of respondents said they would support another candidate. Fourteen candidates are running for mayor.<\/p>\n
If no candidate wins a majority in the primary, the top two finishers will advance to a November runoff.<\/p>\n
“It is unusual for 40% of likely voters to be unsure of their choice just two months before an L.A. mayoralty election,” Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Although Mayor Bass faces the most challenging reelection of an incumbent mayor in decades, it is highly likely that this election will be decided in a November runoff. A lot can change between now and then, so it’s a wide-open race.”<\/p>\n
The poll surveyed 813 likely voters between March 15 and March 29 and has a margin of error of 4%, poll officials said.<\/p>\n
Demographic results showed:<\/p>\n
— Bass with strong backing among African American voters at 53%, with 29% undecided;<\/p>\n
— Among white, Latino, and Asian and Pacific Islander voters, undecided respondents outpaced support for any single candidate;<\/p>\n
— By age, Bass received 31% support among voters 65 and older, compared to 36% undecided;<\/p>\n
— Among voters ages 40 to 64, Bass had 23% support, while her top opponents collectively drew 30%; and<\/p>\n
— Among voters ages 18 to 39, Bass had 21% support, compared to 29% combined support for her leading challengers.<\/p>\n
Undecided voters were the largest share across all age groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Voters in Los Angeles remain largely undecided in the mayor’s race, with 40% still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7048,3557,7053,26,7065,7057,4300,7061,7060,7054,7052,7056,7055,7066,6217,48,7068,52,51,47,50,49,7063,7062,973,7069,100,7064,2083,611,1839,4201,6220,7070,7049,7050,7051,7059,7058,7067],"class_list":{"0":"post-250242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-7048","9":"tag-am","10":"tag-bill-handel","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-broadcasting","13":"tag-conway","14":"tag-eaton-fire","15":"tag-gary-shannon","16":"tag-gary-and-shannon","17":"tag-gary-hoffmann","18":"tag-handel","19":"tag-john-ken","20":"tag-john-and-ken","21":"tag-john-kobylt","22":"tag-kfi","23":"tag-la","24":"tag-la-fires","25":"tag-la-headlines","26":"tag-la-news","27":"tag-los-angeles","28":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","29":"tag-los-angeles-news","30":"tag-los-angeles-radio","31":"tag-los-angeles-talk-radio","32":"tag-media","33":"tag-mo-kelly","34":"tag-news","35":"tag-newstalk","36":"tag-oc","37":"tag-orange-county","38":"tag-palisades-fire","39":"tag-radio","40":"tag-radio-station","41":"tag-santa-ana-winds","42":"tag-stay-connected","43":"tag-stimulating","44":"tag-talk","45":"tag-talk-radio","46":"tag-tim-conway","47":"tag-wild-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}