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Los Angeles/2026 election/Mayor
Certified general-election field

Mayor

Nov 3, 20262 certified candidatesBallot order preserved
Equal record layout

Certified candidates

Order below follows the City Clerk's certified candidate list. Election.org does not score, rank, or infer positions.

Nithya Raman with her familyCampaign-supplied image
Ballot order 1

Nithya Raman

Councilmember/Urban Planner

Status
Certified for general ballot
Official photo
Not in cited City Clerk records
Campaign material
Current site + image found
Candidate video
Provided
Campaign statements
11 sourced
Source history
11 archive-observed
Debate & media records
3 indexed
Promise timelines
No configured record
Standardized CV
7 of 8 fields sourced
Endorsement page
63 entries indexed
Open Nithya Raman's sourced record →
Karen Bass in a campaign collageCampaign-supplied image
Ballot order 2

Karen Ruth Bass

Mayor, City of Los Angeles

Status
Certified for general ballot
Official photo
Not in cited City Clerk records
Campaign material
Current site + image found
Candidate video
Not provided
Campaign statements
7 sourced
Source history
7 archive-observed
Debate & media records
2 indexed
Promise timelines
4 traceable
Standardized CV
4 of 8 fields sourced
Endorsement page
237 entries indexed
Open Karen Ruth Bass's sourced record →
Events and recordings

Debates and official candidate media

Event records require dated source evidence and named participants. Candidate-provided City Clerk statements stay separate from debates and are never treated as government findings.

PRIMARY · May 6, 2026

NBC4 and Telemundo 52 Los Angeles mayoral primary debate

Karen Bass · Nithya Raman · Spencer Pratt

9 topics indexedpublic broadcaster-published full recording
Open event evidence →
GENERAL · Aug 19, 2026

Sherman Oaks Los Angeles mayoral general-election debate

Karen Bass · Nithya Raman

4 topics indexedNo publicly accessible full recording located in this release
Open event evidence →
Nithya RamanCity Clerk video + transcript indexedOpen PDF ↗

2 sourced debate events and 3 City Clerk transcripts across the full certified field · open the complete media index →

Observed by · never “published on”

Campaign position source history

Exact current campaign statements are connected to matching Internet Archive captures. A capture proves the excerpt appeared by that time; it does not establish authorship date, change, consistency, or motive.

18 position histories in this contest · 110 observations across the full field · audit the source-history method →

Commitments → actions · no political grade

Promise evidence tracker

Each timeline begins with a precise campaign commitment and adds only dated public actions or official measures. Statuses never mean “kept,” “broken,” honest, effective, or caused by the officeholder.

4 configured promise records · 8 dated source observations · audit the tracker and coverage boundary →

Same schema · no credential score

Compare standardized sourced backgrounds

The City Clerk occupational designation and exact campaign biography excerpts stay visibly separate. Each published background claim links to its original source.

Prior employment

Nithya Raman
She is an urban planner by training
Campaign source ↗
Karen Ruth Bass
She was a community organizer on the streets of South Los Angeles, a nurse in the NICU
Campaign source ↗

Education

Nithya Raman
received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and graduate degree from MIT
Campaign source ↗
Karen Ruth Bass—

Previous public offices

Nithya Raman
In the City Council, Nithya has worked tirelessly to lower housing costs and build more housing.
Campaign source ↗
Karen Ruth Bass
Before taking office, she represented Los Angeles in Congress and served as Speaker of the California State Assembly
Campaign source ↗

Boards, commissions & civic organizations

Nithya Raman
She co-founded the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition
Campaign source ↗
Karen Ruth Bass—

Prior campaigns

Nithya Raman
In 2020, Nithya ran for City Council as a complete outsider
Campaign source ↗
Karen Ruth Bass—

Election history

Nithya Raman
she defeated a sitting councilmember for the first time in 17 years
Campaign source ↗
Karen Ruth Bass
Karen Bass is the first woman ever elected to lead the city.
Campaign source ↗

8 equal fields · 43 sourced records across all eight candidates · 34 explicit gaps · last verified Oct 23, 2026

No score · source every cell

Compare campaign-published statements

Each row appears when either certified candidate publishes a statement on that topic. Campaign claims are not government-certified facts or Election.org findings.

Animal welfare

Nithya Raman
Animal welfare
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass—

Climate & environment

Nithya Raman
climate & environment
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass—

Disaster recovery

Nithya Raman
palisades recovery
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass—

Homelessness

Nithya Raman
ending homelessness
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass
Street Homelessness Is Down 17.5 percent.
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026

Immigration

Nithya Raman
immigrants in, ice out
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass
Standing Up to Trump.
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026

Infrastructure & city services

Nithya Raman—
Karen Ruth Bass
LA’s First-Ever Infrastructure Plan.
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026

Jobs & local economy

Nithya Raman
save hollywood jobs
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass
More Jobs.
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026

Public safety

Nithya Raman
Public safety
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass
More Officers, Community Policing & Lower Crime.
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026

Small business

Nithya Raman
small business
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass—

Tenant rights

Nithya Raman
Protecting renters
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass
Renter Protections.
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026

Transportation & street safety

Nithya Raman
transportation & street safety
Campaign source ↗Date not stated · retrieved Oct 23, 2026
Karen Ruth Bass—

12 comparison topics · exact source headings only · last verified Oct 23, 2026

Inventory, never a score

Audit each campaign's endorsement directory

Counts describe what each campaign page publishes. They are not comparable measures of support because campaigns group, select, and update endorsements differently.

981 records across the full certified field · source labels and order preserved · last verified Oct 23, 2026

Sources & notes
SOURCE BOUNDARY

What this page proves

Certified candidate list ↗Name, contest, order, occupational designationCandidate contact publication ↗Campaign-supplied public links, clearly attributed
Current campaign sitesCandidate-provided claims and images are separately attributed on every profile
Comparable campaign statementsExact headings, equal topic rows, explicit gaps, and no Election.org score
Standardized candidate backgroundsEight equal CV fields, exact source excerpts, fingerprints, and explicit gaps with no credential verification or ranking
Campaign endorsement directoriesCampaign-reported names and campaign labels, with no verification, weighting, or count-based ranking
Position source historyExact archived observations and current live observations, with no inferred publication date or change verdict
Debate and candidate media indexDated event sources, full-recording coverage, topic timestamps, separate candidate transcripts, and explicit gaps
Promise-to-action timelinesPrecise commitments, dated actions, source fingerprints, and no kept-or-broken rating
VerifiedOct 27, 2026
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