2022 Los Angeles mayoral election

2022 Los Angeles mayoral election

← 2017 June 7, 2022 (first round)
November 8, 2022 (runoff)
2026 →
Registered2,120,515
Turnout43.86%
 
Candidate Karen Bass Rick Caruso
First round 278,511
43.11%
232,490
35.99%
Runoff 509,944
54.83%
420,030
45.17%

 
Candidate Kevin de León Gina Viola
First round 50,372
7.79%
44,341
6.86%
Runoff Eliminated Eliminated

Bass:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70-80%
Caruso:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Mayor before election

Eric Garcetti

Elected Mayor

Karen Bass

The 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the mayor of Los Angeles, California. A top-two primary was held on June 7, 2022. Candidates could win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote, but no candidate received a majority.[1] More than forty candidates formed committees to run. Twenty-seven filed their declaration of intention to collect signatures for the ballot, and of these twelve qualified.

Incumbent Mayor Eric Garcetti was ineligible to seek a third term due to term limits but was serving an extended second term due to a law moving election dates from an "off-year election" to a midterm and statewide election year.[2] In July 2021, Garcetti was nominated to become United States Ambassador to India.[3] If Garcetti left office before his mayoral term ended, the Los Angeles City Council would have appointed an interim replacement to finish the remainder of that term.[4] This nomination was stalled in the Senate, leaving Garcetti to finish his term.

U.S. Representative Karen Bass and real estate developer Rick Caruso advanced to the general election. On November 16, Bass was declared the winner.

There were a total of 2,120,515 registered voters within the City of Los Angeles and 1,018,139 votes received as of November 22, 2022 as of the last update there were 15,105 ballots outstanding within Los Angeles County.[5][6] The election was nonpartisan, as are all local elections in California.

  1. ^ Chou, Elizabeth (March 11, 2020). "LA City Attorney Mike Feuer says he wants to be mayor, kicking off early group of entrants in 2022 races". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  2. ^ "Los Angeles mayor wins re-election in landslide". Reuters. March 8, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  3. ^ "President Biden Announces His Intent to Nominate Four Individuals to Serve as Ambassadors". White House. July 9, 2021. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
  4. ^ "Here's how L.A. Picks its next mayor as Garcetti tapped for India post". The Los Angeles Times. July 9, 2021.
  5. ^ "4300_community" (PDF). Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. November 23, 2022. p. 97. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
  6. ^ "Tenth Post-Election Ballot Count Update for the 2022 General Election" (PDF). Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. November 22, 2022. Retrieved November 23, 2022.