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$19M and counting in LA races. Campaigns for LA mayor and city attorney lead the fundraising
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With fewer than six weeks to go before the June election, candidates running for City of L.A. and Los Angeles Unified School District offices have raised a combined $19 million, according to records from the L.A. City Ethics Commission.
Campaigns for mayor, District 11 City Council member and city attorney have emerged as the most funded races.
Here’s how they stack up:
L.A. mayor
Mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Adam Miller are leading all L.A. city candidates in fundraising, with $3.7 million and $2.7 million raised so far, respectively.
The candidates have tapped into very different sources to fund their campaigns.
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Miller, a tech entrepreneur and leader of multiple nonprofits, has loaned $2.5 million to his own campaign and raised just $223,000 from donors since entering the race in February.
Bass, on the other hand, had already gathered more than $2.3 million in contributions by January. She’d received some of those donations as far back as July 2024.
The city’s matching funds program has also given Bass a nearly $874,000 boost over Miller, who did not qualify to receive a 6-to-1 match from the city on donations that meet certain criteria.
Nithya Raman, City Council member for L.A.’s District 4, has had the quickest growth in donor support out of all candidates for mayor after entering the race in February.
She’s received a combined $1.1 million from direct contributions and matching funds from the city.
Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has received about $538,000 in contributions, and Presbyterian minister and community organizer Rae Huang has taken in about $273,000.
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District 11
Traci Park, who is the current City Council member for the 11th district, has brought in about $1.4 million so far through contributions and matching funds.
Faizah Malik is an attorney at the nonprofit law firm Public Counsel and is challenging Park for her council seat. She has raised about $632,000.
This race also has the largest amount of outside spending across the city and LAUSD.
About $972,000 has been spent in support of Park, including about $634,000 from the Los Angeles Police Protective League and $297,000 from a committee sponsored by United Firefighters of L.A. City.
Unite Here, a labor union representing hospitality workers, has spent more than $220,000 in support of Malik.
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City attorney
Hydee Feldstein Soto, the incumbent city attorney, has raised nearly $1.2 million in contributions and matching funds.
Marissa Roy, deputy attorney general, has raised nearly $1 million in her race to unseat Feldstein Soto.
Deputy District Attorney John McKinney and human rights attorney Aida Ashouri have raised about $73,000 and $14,000, respectively, in the race.
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Updated April 24, 2026 at 5:46 PM PDT
This story was updated with the latest numbers from the L.A. City Ethics Commission.
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