Spencer Pratt Falls to 3rd place in Los Angeles mayoral race
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Nithya Raman could just send Spencer Pratt packing… the race for mayor and the city.
Spencer promised to leave Los Angeles if he was not the next mayor, and simply fell to third place behind the incumbent mayor Karen Bass and Raman, city council member.
“The Hills” alum had been in second place since last Tuesday’s election night… but Raman had slowly closed the gap as the results came in… and now Spencer has fallen to third place.
With Sunday’s final tally, Raman’s tally received 27.1 percent of the vote, while Spencer’s fell to 26.7 percent.
Bass has been firmly in the lead all week and is already expected to move on to the November contest.
Spencer still has a chance to secure one of the top two spots and advance to the runoff election… but with 83.2% of the votes expected, according to NBC Newsthe fight for 2nd place goes down to the wire.
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Spencer seemed pretty confident last week when he posted a photo of himself and his wife. Heidi Montagwith the caption… “LA comes back.”
But now that more votes are coming in for Raman, he has insinuated that something nefarious is happening in a series of Instagram posts.
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In a post, he shared a photo of Russell Crowe from the film “A Beautiful Mind” which examines complex mathematical problems on a window. Spencer captioned it: “Trying to figure out how votes are counted in LA.”
In a story, he posted a photo of Raman and wrote… “We have until July 6 to continue counting. They are not the only ones who know how to find the votes.”
In his most recent article, Spencer suggested that Los Angeles’ unhoused population had turned the tide, sharing a statistic that “43,699 people were left homeless every night in the city of Los Angeles.”
Spencer included a screenshot of the election results, writing… “‘A net swing of over 43,000 votes since Tuesday…’ 43,000, huh? Where have I seen this number before…?”
Raman’s boost comes as the county continues to tally results. According to the Los Angeles County Registrar/Clerk, mail-in ballots postmarked on Election Day and received within 7 days still count.
Elector turn out was very low in this year’s primaries… showing that about 32% of eligible voters turned out to vote.
