Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman Ousts Embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
The Los Angeles City Councilmember won with 52.1% of the vote after Bass conceded, signaling a generational shift and a new approach to homelessness.
- On Thursday, Councilmember Nithya Raman was projected to win Los Angeles mayor after incumbent Mayor Karen Bass conceded. Raman leads with 429,450 votes, or 52.1% of the total.
- Voters restless over long-running problems that persisted under Bass propelled Raman's campaign, which focused on accelerating housing production, modernizing infrastructure, and implementing community safety initiatives.
- With 76% of the vote tabulated as of Thursday morning, Raman held a 34,654-vote lead over Bass. The candidates had been running neck-and-neck late in the campaign before Raman pulled ahead.
- Mayor Karen Bass conceded Thursday, pledging a smooth transition and stating, "While this is not the outcome we hoped for, the people of Los Angeles have spoken."
- Nationally, Raman's victory places her among a vanguard of democratic socialists in municipal government. Her platform aims to cut homeless encampments by 50% before the 2028 Olympic Games using a permit "shot clock" to triple housing construction.
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In the largest city in the USA, New York, Zohran Mamdani is ready a self-explanatory democratic socialist mayor. Now the citizens of the second largest city of the country also elect a left candidate in the city hall. Nithya Raman competed against a party colleague.
LA's Foreign-Born, DSA-Backed New Mayor Wants to Make It the 'Strongest Sanctuary City in the Country.'
Nithya Raman has been elected Mayor of Los Angeles, unseating outgoing Democrat Mayor Karen Bass and marking another victory for the far-left Democratic Socialists of America during the 2026 midterm elections.
The new mayor, 45 years old, was born in India, grew up in the USA, formed between Harvard and Mit, worked for 7 years in the native land for the rights of the slums, founded an NGO for the homeless Californians. Then politics: close to Bernie Sanders, it is not uncommon that it is found in contrast with the Democratic Socialists of America
In Los Angeles, Nithya Raman (45) has won the mayoral election. She promises to tackle homelessness, as well as the high house and apartment prices in the city. With Raman's victory, the two largest American cities now have a 'Democratic Socialist' as mayor, following Zohran Mamdani's win in New York last year.
Nithya Raman, an urbanist and member of the Socialist Democrats of America, takes over the reins of the country's second largest city after spending six years on the city council. ...
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