2026 California Primary Election: Who's Moving on to November Runoff and Who's Not
With about half the ballots counted, Spencer Pratt holds second in Los Angeles while Steve Hilton leads the governor race and both contests could still shift.
- On Tuesday, Mayor Karen Bass secured a spot in the November mayoral runoff with nearly 35% of the vote, while Reality TV personality Spencer Pratt held second place with over 30%, distancing himself from City Councilmember Nithya Raman.
- Republican Steve Hilton leads the gubernatorial race after 57% of ballots were counted, followed by Democrat Xavier Becerra and Democrat Tom Steyer; Hilton, a British political upstart backed by Donald Trump, campaigns on lower taxes and fewer regulations.
- Incumbent Attorney General Rob Bonta will face Republican challenger Michael Gates in November, NBC News projected, while Incumbent Shirley Weber and Republican Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner advanced to a runoff for secretary of state.
- If standings hold, the general election will feature a Bass-Pratt showdown, with Pratt claiming he is "exposing all the failures of our mayor" while Raman appears unlikely to catch up with about 500,000 votes remaining.
- County officials will continue scanning ballots between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wednesday before releasing an update around 4 p.m., according to the County Registrar-recorder, as 1,318,466 ballots have been processed with 22.38% of registered voters participating.
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The California Primary Races Still Counting Votes – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has run out of reelection opportunities due to term limits. When polls in the primary race to replace him closed last night, votes had not been conclusively counted. In the gubernatorial race, Republican Steve Hilton is currently leading estimates at 27.8 percent of the vote over two Democratic candidates, Xavier Becerra (25.4 percent) and Tom Steyer (19.6 percent), with 56 percent of the total ballots counted. After…
Shenanigans again in California – vote count stops with Steve Hilton leading for governor, Spencer Pratt close to Karen Bass
And here we go again with the bullshit and California elections.. Steve Hilton is the leading vote getting for governor of California, despite the lying polls that put him in third place behind two communists. Yet, as what usually happens when Democrats are losing, the shenanigans begin and the vote counting stops… No one was...
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