Republican Wins Special Election, Heads To Congress

But in the Los Angeles mayoral contest, incumbent Democrat Karen Bass didn’t crack the 51% needed to win outright, setting up a runoff in November.

“Missing Congressman Doug LaMalfa, who is a mentor to me, but also just feeling overwhelmed by the amount of support that we’ve had tonight,” Gallagher added

At the time of this writing on Thursday morning, Pratt is ahead, and Raman would have to make up a huge number of votes.

Roughly 62% of the vote had been counted as of Wednesday night.

Per the New York Times, here’s where the voting totals stand as of this writing on Thursday morning: