{"id":347447,"date":"2026-06-05T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347447\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:22:09","slug":"update-in-la-mayor-california-governors-race-shows-results-tightening-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347447\/","title":{"rendered":"Update in LA mayor, California governor’s race shows results tightening — slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new political dawn for California is yet to fully emerge more than two days from the polls closing<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n

However, Thursday\u2019s sluggish ballot update did yielded modest jumps for candidates in both California\u2019s governor\u2019s race and the Los Angeles mayoral contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The slow-moving count is beginning to tighten California\u2019s gubernatorial primary, where former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra slightly chipped away at frontrunner Steve Hilton\u2019s lead.<\/a><\/p>\n

Xavier Becerra speaking at a rally with supporters Tuesday. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n

California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton holds his lead Thursday with 1.5 million votes. REUTERS<\/p>\n

He\u2019s in second place with 26% of the vote, or 1,444,257 votes, trailing former Fox News host Steve Hilton, who leads the field with 27.2% of the vote, or 1,511,792 votes.<\/p>\n

Billionaire liberal Tom Steyer remained in third place with 20.2% of the vote, or 1,122,789 votes, gaining about 65,000 votes in the latest count.<\/p>\n

The picture was similarly static in Los Angeles, where another slow ballot drop brought only minor shifts in the mayoral race. <\/p>\n

Spencer Pratt\u2019s lead over Nithya Raman narrowed slightly on Thursday. AP Photo\/Jill Connelly<\/p>\n

Spencer Pratt <\/a>lost ground to Nithya Raman for second position and November runoff against Karen Bass from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk, included 81,486 additional ballots.<\/p>\n

That brings the total number counted to 1,477,473.<\/p>\n

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Pratt\u2019s share of the vote fell from 29.91% to 29.35%, a decline of 0.56 percentage points. <\/p>\n

Raman gained 0.61 percentage points, rising from 22.81% to 23.42%.<\/p>\n

Empty desks were visible throughout the ballot processing center during a California Post visit. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

Bass also increased her share of the vote, climbing from 34.97% to 35.08%, a gain of 0.11 percentage points.<\/p>\n

With hundreds of thousands of ballots still awaiting processing,The California Post visited the county\u2019s 144,000-square-foot ballot processing facility <\/a>Thursday and observed large sections of the operation sitting unused despite the sizable backlog.<\/p>\n

Another slow ballot update, with just 81,486 votes tallied on Thursday. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post<\/p>\n

Rows of workstations sat empty as election workers continued processing ballots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than 632,000 ballots remain to be counted, according to county estimates.<\/p>\n

Over the past two days, Los Angeles County has only processed 159,007 ballots, a small fraction of the outstanding total.<\/p>\n

Nithya Raman gained ground on Spencer Pratt in Thursday\u2019s ballot count. CHRIS TORRES\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass slightly expanded her lead in the mayoral race Thursday as another 81,486 ballots were counted. GC Images<\/p>\n

Election officials have said ballot counting is expected to continue for days even weeks as workers verify signatures, review vote-by-mail ballots and process provisional and conditional voter registration ballots.<\/p>\n

Additional ballot count updates are expected most week days around 4 p.m. until all eligible ballots have been processed and counted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new political dawn for California is yet to fully emerge more than two days from the polls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,989,47,4182,18818,3586],"class_list":["post-347447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-elections","tag-los-angeles","tag-metro","tag-midterm-elections","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347447","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=347447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}