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L.A. city council member Nithya Raman secures second term
Nithya Raman secured 50.6 per cent of the votes with which the need for a runoff election became redundant
Incumbent LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman won the re election / nithya2024.com
Kerala-born Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has secured her second term in office. The incumbent received more than 50 percent of the votes in the elections earlier this month.
She was up against Deputy City Attorney Ethan Weaver and software engineer Levon “Lev” Baronian for the L.A. Council District 4 seat. Results show Raman received 34,000 votes over 50 percent making the need for a runoff redundant. Weaver came in second with 38.6 percent of the votes followed by Baronian with 10.7 percent votes, according to a report.
Raman thanked her opponent for running “spirited, passionate campaigns,” in a post on X after winning the re-election. She thanked her campaign team, volunteers who went door knocking for her among other promotional activities, and the coalition of groups and leaders who endorsed her campaign.
No LA incumbent has ever been targeted by as much PAC spending as I have in this race.
— Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) March 5, 2024
PACs funded by corporate landlords and the police union have spent over a million dollars to flood mailboxes and social feeds with negative ads – hoping they can turn people off from voting.
"Across the city, voters sent a loud, clear message about the Los Angeles that they want to build – one with much more housing, safer streets with more bus and bike infrastructure, more green spaces, stronger protections for renters facing a brutal housing market, more shelter and services for people experiencing homelessness, and a City Hall that is free of corruption and self-dealing. I will continue to work my hardest to deliver on that vision,” she wrote.
Raman was first elected in 020, becoming the first South Asian and first Asian American woman elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Born in Kerala, she moved to the United States at the age of six.
Raman continued to work in India before and after her graduation however she moved to Los Angeles from India in 2013 to be with her husband.
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