How George Gascón unseated L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey
Challenger George Gascón has defeated two-term incumbent Jackie Lacey and will become the next Los Angeles County district attorney. The upset marks the first time a sitting D.A. has been unseated in the county in 20 years.
The hotly contested race ended Friday, when Lacey conceded after concluding that the remaining ballots offered her no path to victory. The outcome may have seemed unlikely in March, when Gascón won only 28% of the votes in the primary and Lacey nearly avoided a runoff.
But following a summer of calls for change, Gascón positioned himself as a reformer, poached endorsements, out-fundraised the incumbent and rode the wave of voters who turned out for the presidential election.
Los Angeles County district attorney election results
A Times analysis of the general election results shows how Gascón assembled a winning coalition. His political path to victory came from uniting the progressive opposition in the densely populated core of the county, while winning over areas where Lacey once enjoyed strong support.
While some votes remain to be counted, more than 3 million have been tallied in the 3,383 precincts across Los Angeles County. A block-by-block map of the neighborhood precincts provides the most detailed view available of the vote.
It shows that Gascón gained support all across the L.A. Basin, racking up the biggest margins in East and South Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Lancaster
Lacey’s strongest support came from the suburban edges of the county in the South Bay and Antelope Valley.
Palmdale
Santa Clarita
Gascón captured most of the L.A. Basin, consolidating the opposition to Lacey seen in the primary.
Beverly Hills
Downtown
Santa Monica
Long Beach
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Lacey’s strongest support came from the suburban edges of the county in the South Bay and Antelope Valley.
Lancaster
Palmdale
Gascón captured most of the L.A. Basin, consolidating the opposition to Lacey seen in the primary.
Santa Clarita
Beverly Hills
Downtown
Santa Monica
Long Beach
Majority-Latino neighborhoods remained opposed to Lacey's reelection, with Gascón claiming most of those precincts.
While Lacey maintained her past support in white, suburban edges of the county, she lost some liberal, white-majority areas of the county such as Santa Monica and Venice.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Lacey struggled to hold onto support in majority-white areas that backed her in the primary.
Santa Clarita
Agoura Hills
West Hollywood
Santa Monica
Rancho
Palos Verdes
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Gascón racked up large margins in heavily-Latino areas near downtown and in the eastern San Fernando Valley.
Van Nuys
Eagle Rock
El Monte
Huntington Park
Inglewood
Norwalk
Perhaps the biggest upset came from areas where Black people make up the largest share of the population. Lacey, the first Black woman elected as county district attorney, is a Los Angeles native who attended high school in Baldwin Hills, an area considered to be a vital part of Black Los Angeles.
In a drastic shift from the primary, Gascón won the vast majority of plurality-Black precincts.
Downtown
Downtown
10
10
Baldwin hills
5
South Los
Angeles
5
South Los
Angeles
Inglewood
Inglewood
105
105
405
405
110
110
Compton
Compton
Lacey narrowly won 51% of the vote in these neighborhoods in the primary
Downtown
Baldwin hills
South Los
Angeles
Inglewood
Compton
Downtown
South Los
Angeles
Inglewood
Compton
Lacey narrowly won 51% of the vote in these neighborhoods in the primary
Gascón raised nearly twice as much money as Lacey, thanks to massive contributions from wealthy individuals, though most lived far outside the county.
Here in Los Angeles, wealthier precincts still gave many of their votes to Lacey. Gascón performed strongly in lower-income areas, where primary voters were more likely to have voted for him or Rachel Rossi, the other challenger in the March race.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Saugus
Some wealthy neighborhoods on the west side of L.A. abandoned Lacey after the primary.
Calabasas
Bel-Air
Hermosa
Beach
Lakewood
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Van Nuys
Hollywood
Huntington
Park
Norwalk
Long Beach
See which of the two candidates your neighborhood supported by searching our interactive map.
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