John McKinney and Marissa Roy are running in the nonpartisan election for Los Angeles City Attorney on November 3, 2026.
Incumbent Hydee Feldstein Soto finished third in the city's June 2nd primary. This was the first time in nearly 100 years that an incumbent Los Angeles city attorney failed to advance from a primary. Roy received 43% of the vote to McKinney's 29%, Feldstein Soto's 18%, and Aida Ashouri's 10%. The Los Angeles Times' Sonja Sharp and James Queally wrote that the primary was a referendum on Feldstein Soto, whose term they wrote had been "marked by exploding legal costs and the loss of support from the union for rank-and-file LAPD officers following a data breach that led to thousands of sensitive files being leaked online. Now, voters will have to decide which of Roy and McKinney’s competing visions is best suited to fix an office many saw as broken."
Although elections for the position are nonpartisan, McKinney and Roy are affiliated with the Democratic Party.
