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The already close Los Angeles mayor’s race grew even tighter Thursday, with businessman Rick Caruso’s lead over U.S. Rep. Karen Bass reduced to just 2,695 votes, down from his 12,282-vote advantage a day earlier.
Caruso has 50.25% of the vote to Bass’ 49.75%, according to the latest results from county election officials. Before Thursday’s update, he held a 2.5-percentage-point lead in the campaign to succeed Mayor Eric Garcetti.
The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office promised another update on Friday. About 545,000 votes have been counted in the mayor’s race so far, but hundreds of thousands of mostly mail-in ballots remain, according to election analysts.
Election officials reported that 883,300 ballots remain to be processed countywide, which takes in 88 cities plus unincorporated communities. They did not say how many of those were from L.A.
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