Key facts
- Raman, the first democratic socialist on the Los Angeles city council, defeated incumbent Karen Bass to become mayor.
- Marissa Roy won the city attorney race with 67.39% of the vote, according to the latest data available.
- Angela Gonzales-Torres defeated incumbent Jimmy Gomez for a US House seat, 60.6% to 39.4%, per the latest figures.
- DSA-LA said endorsed candidates also won school board seats and a Burbank city council majority.
- DSA-LA said more than 2,000 people joined the chapter in the week of the election, after more than 6,000 members last month.
Nithya Raman defeated incumbent Karen Bass to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, the report said, in an election held in the week of November 7, 2026. Raman, the first democratic socialist to serve on the Los Angeles city council, will lead a city where DSA-LA-endorsed candidates also won other offices.
Los Angeles voters backed Marissa Roy for city attorney with 67.39% of the vote, according to the latest data available, and Angela Gonzales-Torres, who defeated incumbent Jimmy Gomez for a US House seat with 60.6% to his 39.4%, according to the most recently available figures. Other endorsed candidates won school board seats and seats on the Burbank city council, which DSA-LA said gives Burbank the first socialist-majority city council on the west coast.
DSA-LA said it fielded its largest-ever slate of candidates and that volunteers knocked on more than 110,000 doors during the campaign. The chapter said it had more than 6,000 members as of last month and that another 2,000 people joined in the week of the election.
Anna Gross, a DSA-LA steering member, said in a statement that the results show Angelenos are looking for an alternative to politicians beholden to billionaires and corporate interests. Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles initiative at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Bass's handling of the Palisades fire damaged her and that a majority of residents think the city is on the wrong track.
The report said DSA-LA's backing of Raman was complicated: the chapter censured her in 2024 over an endorsement from a Democrats for Israel group, other DSA-affiliated council members stood by Bass, and national leaders considered rescinding the chapter's support before a vote on the matter failed. Raman said she would work to earn the trust of voters who backed Bass or did not vote.