Nithya Raman Wins Los Angeles Mayor's Race, Giving DSA 6 Aligned Power Centers
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Updated · The New York Times · Nov 11
Nithya Raman Wins Los Angeles Mayor's Race, Giving DSA 6 Aligned Power Centers
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Nov 11
Summary
Nithya Raman defeated Mayor Karen Bass in a hard-fought Los Angeles mayoral race, delivering a breakthrough win for the city’s democratic socialist movement.
Marissa Roy also won the city attorney race, and with an aligned city controller and three City Council members, DSA-backed officials now hold six key power centers in city government.
Raman’s victory still does not guarantee a strict socialist agenda: she kept the national and local DSA at arm’s length during the campaign, and some members questioned her ideological alignment.
Those tensions could carry into City Hall, where all three DSA council members had backed Bass, leaving Raman to govern with both new left-wing strength and visible skepticism inside the coalition.