Karen Bass and Rick Caruso head to runoff in Los Angeles mayoral race

Congresswoman Karen Bass and businessman Rick Caruso during a mayoral debate at Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus on 22 March. Photograph: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Rex/Shutterstock

The congresswoman Karen Bass and the billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso will head to a November rematch in their bids to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, after neither candidate secured enough votes to win outright in Tuesday’s primary.

An early tally of mail-in ballots showed Caruso with 41% and Bass with 38% of the vote, meaning both candidates failed to clear the 50% threshold needed to win outright. The Associated Press called the race as a runoff late on Tuesday evening.