Nithya Raman Leapfrogs Spencer Pratt in LA Mayor Race

A Democrat Nithya Raman passed the Republican Spencer Pratt getting second place in the first race for the next Mayor of Los Angeles.

After the latest round of votes were counted on Sunday night, June 7, the 44-year-old Los Angeles City Council member jumped Pratt, 42, to sit just behind the incumbent. Karen Bass. Before Sunday's count, Raman was trailing behind The hills alum by a large margin.

Raman currently holds 27.12% of the vote at press time, compared to Pratt's 26.69%. Bass, 72, is still holding strong with 34.68% of the vote. (The results have already saved Bass a spot in the November race for LA mayor.)

Although Pratt looks likely to push his bid forward, a third-place finish will eliminate him from November's competition.

Raman was specially told Us Weekly on April 30, via “Nithya for Mayor”, when he criticized Pratt for filming part of his campaign outside his home.

“Filming outside my home, where I live with my young children, feels unnecessary and reckless,” a spokesperson said at the time. Pratt's campaign included an ad that saw him visit the homes of both Raman and Bass to provide insight into each person's unique living situations. (Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montagthey live in a trailer with their two children since losing their house in the Palisades fire of 2025.)

Pratt declared in the controversial ad, “This is where Mayor Bass lives. Notice something? Or here, where Nithya Raman's $3 million mansion lives? They don't have to live in the filth they created.”

In the June 2 primary election, Bass advanced to the November general election. Although Bass declined to comment more publicly about Pratt, he did comment on Raman during the meeting. Politics event in May. “I doubt his ability to lead the city while he is struggling to be a member of the city council,” Bass said at the time.

Pratt announced his candidacy one year after his family lost their home in a wildfire.

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“The system in Los Angeles is not struggling, it's really broken,” Pratt said during the “Let Us Burn” public event that announced the campaign. “It's a device designed to protect the elite and the benevolent while the rest of us drown in toxic smoke and ash.” Business as usual is a death sentence in Los Angeles, and I'm done waiting for someone to take real action.”

He told himself Us Weekly in the issue of May 27, he had never predicted that he would run for mayor.

“I never thought that actually, maybe [become] mayor,” he said, “I was just looking for someone [tell] truth, and I wanted to have that platform as an opponent [Bass] to find the truth,” he said at the time.