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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Politics
Matt Hamilton

Bass widens her lead against Caruso in LA mayor race

Karen Bass Rick Caruso United States Paul Koretz Los Angeles Alex Villanueva Bob Hertzberg Erin Darling Faisal Gill Hugo SotoMartinez

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Rep. Karen Bass expanded her lead on Saturday against businessman Rick Caruso in the race to be the next mayor of Los Angeles, with an updated tally putting her 9,463 votes ahead of the developer in a contest that will not be settled until next week at the earliest.

The new totals from an additional 29,000 ballots had Bass at 50.78% to Caruso’s 49.22%, according to the latest tranche of results from the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office.

Until Friday, Caruso had a tiny lead on the congresswoman of one-half percentage point, or 2,695 votes, but results from about 60,000 ballots released Friday and Saturday showed Bass overtaking and then widening her lead.

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