A new poll indicates socialist Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman has opened up a double-digit lead over Democratic Mayor Karen Bass with six weeks to go until Election Day.Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), stands at 39% support among likely Los Angeles voters in the race for mayor, with Bass at 28%, according to a University of California Berkeley Institute of Government Studies/Los Angeles Times poll released on Wednesday.The survey, which found that a third of Los Angeles voters remained undecided, grabbed headlines less than two weeks before mail-in ballots are sent out in the Nov.3 election."It's extraordinarily unusual to see this many undecided voters at this point in the race," poll director Mark DiCamillio said in a statement.WATCH: RAMAN SAYS THE DSA WILL REMAIN A 'PARTNER' TO CITY HALLLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and mayoral candidate, councilmember Nithya Raman debate each other at the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
The pair are running against each other in the Los Angels mayors race.(David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)The poll indicates many of the current undecided voters were backers of reality TV star and online influencer Spencer Pratt.
The conservative-leaning candidate who ran for mayor as an independent was eliminated in the June primary, coming in third with 26% of the vote.Bass and Raman, who finished first and second with 34% and 29% of the primary vote, advanced to the general election.According to the poll, 63% of Pratt supporters remain undecided on whom they'll back in the general election, with 22% favoring Bass and 16% supporting Raman.FLASHBACK: DSA-MEMBER JUMPS INTO LA MAYORAL RACELos Angeles Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt speaks with the media outside Don Antonio's restaurant in Los Angeles, California, on June 2, 2026, the day of California's primary elections.(Highfive/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)"I told everyone that if you don’...