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Los Angeles City Council Race – Daily News


Los Angeles City Council Race – Daily News

Los Angeles voters will elect three City Council members in the Nov. 5 election, with two incumbents running in two of the races. The first round of results consisted entirely of mail-in ballots that arrived before Election Day.

In the San Fernando Valley's District 2, which stretches from North Hollywood to Toluca Lake, former state lawmaker Adrin Nazarian is running against newcomer Jillian Burgos.

In District 10, which includes Mid-City, Leimert Park and Baldwin Hills, Heather Hutt — who was appointed by the City Council to fill the vacant seat — is running against attorney and community activist Grace Yoo.

In District 14, which covers downtown LA and several Eastside communities, voters will decide whether Kevin de Leon keeps his seat after criticism of a private meeting in which he and other city officials made racist comments became public and made national headlines. De Leon is being challenged by tenants' rights attorney Ysabel Jurado.

LIVE ELECTION RESULTS: View a chart of the latest vote counts

District 2: Voters in the San Fernando Valley leaned toward former state Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian, leaving his challenger Jillian Burgos behind. They were vying for the Valley's LA City Council seat, which is being vacated due to term limits by Councilman Paul Krekorian, who represented the district for 15 years.

Nazarian was chief of staff to then-Rep. Krekorian from 2006 until Krekorian's election to the City Council in 2010, and served in that role under Krekorian at Los Angeles City Hall.

Burgos, a small business owner, health care worker and neighborhood council member, said that if elected, she would be the first Afro-Latina on the city council.

District 10: Councilor Heather Hutt was well ahead of Grace Yoo. Hutt was appointed to the Los Angeles City Council in September 2022 to fill the vacant seat held by former City Council member Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Huff served as statewide director for U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and worked as chief of staff for former LA City Councilman Herb Wesson. Her priorities include combating homelessness and supporting small businesses.

Grace Yoo is an attorney with estate planning experience who has advocated for abused and neglected children at the Children's Law Center of LA County and has held positions as executive director of the Korean-American Coalition and the National Asian-Pacific American Bar Association.

District 14: Voters in District 14 leaned toward Ysabel Jurado as incumbent Kevin De León sought another four-year term to represent his predominantly Latino community. Challenger Jurado, a tenants' rights advocate, took first place in the primary.

De Leon faced a campaign in which many criticized him after he made national headlines in 2022 when, on a secretly recorded October 2021 tape, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, along with Los Angeles City Council members, De León, Gil, Cedillo and Nury Martinez made racist comments. And candidate Jurado was recently criticized for saying “anti-police profanity” during a meeting with students at Cal State Los Angeles.

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