Los Angeles City Council Races – 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, it is the former state legislature Adrin Nazarian takes on newcomer Jillian Burgos.

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

In District 14, which includes downtown LA and several Eastside communities, voters will decide whether Kevin de Leon retains his seat after criticism of a private meeting at which he and other city officials made racist comments that were leaked to the public and made national headlines. De Leon is challenged by rental law lawyer Ysabel Jurado.

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

District 2: San Fernando Valley voters leaned toward former state Assembly member Adrin Nazarian, with his challenger Jillian Burgos following suit. They were vying for the L.A. City Council seat in the Valley, which is being vacated due to term limits by Councilman Paul Krekorian, who has represented the district for 15 years.

Nazarian served as chief of staff to then-Congressman Krekorian from 2006 until Krekorian’s 2010 election to the City Council and continued in that role under Krekorian at Los Angeles City Hall.

Burgos, a small business owner, health care worker and neighborhood council member, said if elected she would become 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 2022to take over the vacant seat left by former councilor Mark Ridley-Thomas.

Huff served as executive director for U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris and chief of staff for former LA City Councilman Herb Wesson. One of her priorities is tackling homelessness and supporting small businesses.

Grace Yoo is an attorney with expertise in estate planning. She 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 tenant rights attorney, came in first in the primary.

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