The 2017 Los Angeles mayoral election was held on March 7, 2017, to elect the mayor of Los Angeles. Due to a change in the city's election calendar to align mayoral elections with statewide elections, the winner stood to serve a term of five years and six months instead of the usual four years.[2]
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Turnout | 20.1%[1] 2.9 pp | ||||||||||||
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Results by city council district Garcetti: 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% | |||||||||||||
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Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan. Incumbent Eric Garcetti won a record 81.4% share of the vote in the primary, eliminating the need for a run-off. Voting turnout was relatively low at 20.1%.[1]
Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Eric Garcetti (incumbent) | 331,310 | 81.37 | |
Mitchell Jack Schwartz | 33,228 | 8.16 | |
David Hernandez | 13,346 | 3.28 | |
Diane "Pinky" Harman | 5,115 | 1.26 | |
David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg | 4,809 | 1.18 | |
Dennis Richter | 4,558 | 1.12 | |
YJ J Draiman | 3,705 | 0.91 | |
Frantz Pierre | 3,386 | 0.83 | |
Eric Preven | 3,023 | 0.74 | |
Yuval Kremer | 2,436 | 0.60 | |
Paul E. Amori | 2,231 | 0.55 | |
Total votes | 407,147 | 100.00 |