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3-14-2026 1:23pm

Fourteen Aspirants for Mayor of L.A.

Los Angeles voters will determine in June, two candidates for Mayor, out of fourteen, to face a runoff in November. L.A. City Voter law prohibits political designation on the ballot.

Fourteen out of forty-three people who announced they were running for Mayor are qualified, as of Friday 3/13/26. Two nominating petitions were categorized as having insufficient signatures, on Friday, belonging to Griselda Diaz, a political activist, and Carmenlina Minasova. Both had originally filed initial paperwork on 2/7/2026 to run for Mayor.

The twelve qualified candidates are:

  1. Bryant Acosta
  2. Asaad Alnajjar
  3. Karen Ruth Bass
  4. Nelson Cheng
  5. Rae Chen Huang
  6. Tish Hyman
  7. Andrew K. Kim
  8. Suzy Kim
  9. John Logsdon
  10. Juanita Lopez
  11. Adam Miller
  12. Spencer Pratt
  13. Nithya Raman
  14. Andrej A. Selivra

No party affiliation is placed on the ballot for City offices, although it is well known the current Mayor and 14 of 15 City Council members belong to the Democratic Party. 

"Ballotpedia will add the candidate list for this election once we have it." Mayoral election in Los Angeles, California (2026) - Ballotpedia

 It was Proposition 198 which began the process of each party sending a candidate to the general election. The "blanket primary" process of Prop 198, legalized in 1996, allowed voters to select a candidate outside their own party affiliation.  Some felt this weaponized elections so weaker candidates were strategically elected for the opposing party to ensure one party's favored candidate had leverage in November. It was repealed in 2000. 

Proposition 10 in 2010 expanded Proposition 198 by allowing cross party voting but eliminated each party sending a candidate in November.  It whittled all the candidates in the primary down to "top two" vote getters to face each other in the November general election. According to the Secretary of State website: The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, which took effect January 1, 2011, created "voter-nominated" offices. The Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act does not apply to candidates running for U.S. President, county central committees, or local offices. But Los Angeles City does not accept a political designation from candidates in their ballot description.

"Except as otherwise provided by Section 6, a candidate for a congressional or state elective office may have his or her political party preference, or lack of political party preference, indicated upon the ballot for the office in the manner provided by statute."  Cal. Constitution Art. II sec. 5 Article 2: Voting, Initiative and Referendum, and Recall

The ELECTION CODE of the CITY OF LOS ANGELES rev. 10/26/2021 Sec. 306. Occupational Designation. 
 (g) The City Clerk shall not accept a designation for which any of the following would be true:

  1. it would mislead the voter;
  2. it would suggest an evaluation of a candidate, such as outstanding,
    leading, expert, virtuous, or eminent;
  3. it uses a word or prefix, such as “former” or “ex-” to indicate a prior
    status, provided, however, that the word “retired” may be used if it precedes the
    designation and is not abbreviated;
  4. it uses the name of any political party;
  5. it refers to any activity prohibited by law; or
  6. it uses a word or words referring to a racial, religious, or ethnic group.

These people have insufficient signatures submitted for their petition to qualify for the Mayoral race. It is possible they will submit a supplemental petition.

  1. Adam Jeffrey Carmichael
  2. Griselda Diaz
  3. Katya Forsyth
  4. Nick Harron
  5. Carmenlina Minasova
  6. Misael Ortega

These people withdrew from the Mayoral race

  1. Keeldar Shawn Hamilton
  2. Franziska Von Fischer 
  3. Jeanne Moller Fontana
  4. Erik Daniel Garcia
  5. Helan Mahmood
  6. Melish A. Thompson

These people never filed the initial petition to qualify for the Mayoral race

  1. Alyssa Ball
  2. Alyxandria-Jamil Carter
  3. Ernesto G. Castelli
  4. Eoin Richard Connolly
  5. Debra "Jerri" Duggan
  6. Cassandra Faye Floyd
  7. Joseph Garcia
  8. Robert "Goody" Goodman
  9. Laura Garza
  10. Benji Guerrero
  11. Stevie Maceo Milan
  12. Preston James Miller
  13. Victor F. Montes
  14. Douglas Nichols
  15. Jerry R. Tyler
  16. Vincent Wali
  17. Unknown
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