Los Angeles Voters Elect Two New Council Members and a New City Attorney on Tuesday
Voters in the Third and Ninth Council Districts will elect new representatives on Tuesday to replace termed-out members Bob Blumenfield and Curren Price, and voters citywide will choose a new city attorney between Marissa Roy and John McKinney.
Los Angeles voters in the Third and Ninth Council Districts are slated Tuesday to elect new representatives, replacing longtime members Bob Blumenfield and Curren Price, who are termed out. In the West Valley's Third District — Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Canoga Park, Reseda and Winnetka — voters will decide between businessman Tim Gaspar, who founded an insurance company he sold in 2021 and has campaigned on a pro-business perspective, and Barri Worth Girvan, a former government employee who worked for County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and has touted her government experience. The race has been intense: Worth Girvan filed an ethics complaint alleging Gaspar failed to report more than $150,000 in campaign-related expenditures, and Gaspar has maintained he did nothing wrong and called the accusations lies.
In South Los Angeles, the Ninth District — downtown, Vermont Square, Central-Alameda and Green Meadows — will elect a Latino council member for the first time since Edward Roybal led the district in 1962; the district is now about 80% Latino. Estuardo Mazariegos, co-director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, has called for more oversight of the Police Department and supports the city's unarmed crisis-response programs. Jose Ugarte, a former deputy chief of staff to Price, supports Mayor Karen Bass' goal of restoring the Police Department to 9,500 officers and enforcement of the city's anti-camping law. In 2025, the City Ethics Commission fined Ugarte $20,000 for failing to disclose outside income from lobbying and consulting work; he agreed to pay the fine.
Citywide, voters will elect a new city attorney after incumbent Hydee Feldstein-Soto failed to win enough votes in June to secure a second term outright. California Deputy Attorney General Marissa Roy led Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John McKinney by 17 points in a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll released in the final week of October. McKinney has said he would prosecute chronically homeless individuals to place them in treatment; Roy has said she would go after companies and individuals violating wage laws and landlords who harass renters. The city attorney is the legal adviser to the mayor, the Council and city departments, defends the city in civil lawsuits, prosecutes misdemeanors, and oversees more than 1,000 staff and a $200 million budget.
