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Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón and former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman are headed to a runoff next month. As the two candidates campaign, they will need to win over the 59% of voters that supported other candidates as well as the large number of L.A. County voters who did not come out for the primary.

Since March, Hochman has pulled ahead in the polls. The most recent survey from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies shows that 51% of likely voters would vote for him and 21% would vote for the incumbent Gascón. Almost a third of voters remain undecided.

The money flowing into their campaigns show a similar pattern to the polls. Hochman’s fundraising since March outpaced Gascón’s by more than 11 times, according to a Times analysis of campaign contribution filings as of Sept. 21.

In the primary, Gascón’s votes came mainly from the city of Los Angeles, while Hochman did better in the South Bay, affluent parts of the Westside and southeast L.A. Most of the primary’s other 11 challengers now back Hochman.

Renters vs. homeowners

Renters make up more than half of L.A. County households. In the primary, Gascón did well with these voters, winning 88% of majority renter neighborhoods, which are largely on the Westside and downtown. Hochman won nearly half of neighborhoods with a majority of homeowners such as Palos Verdes, Malibu and the San Gabriel Valley.

In the most recent poll, both owners (61%) and renters (41%) were more likely to vote for Hochman than Gascón. Just 27% of renters said they would vote for Gascón, while 31% were still undecided.

Looking closer at neighborhoods by renters versus homeowners gives a clearer picture of how the candidates split the primary vote. The Times analyzed precincts by neighborhood to understand how different areas voted. Let’s take a closer look at these neighborhoods.

A little over half of Latino voters and 40% Black voters told the Berkeley pollsters that they would vote for Hochman over Gascón. Surveys show that older, wealthier voters tend to support Hochman, while younger, less wealthy voters mostly remain undecided.

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The map shows the margin of victory and density of votes by voting precinct in the March primary. Each color represents the candidate who received the most votes.

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Here’s where Hochman and Gascón need to win over voters

Compared with the 2020 general election, Gascón retained most of the neighborhoods that voted for him. Almost all of the areas that supported former Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey went for Hochman.

The third-, fourth- and fifth-place candidates secured nearly a combined 30% of the votes and each had geographic clusters of support. Gascón and Hochman will need to focus on these areas in order to win in November.

West Covina

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Santa Clarita

San Fernando

Huntington Park

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Santa Clarita

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West Covina

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Huntington Park

Bell Gardens

Huntington Park

West Covina

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Bell Gardens

Santa Clarita

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Hatami lives in Santa Clarita and spent much of his career working as a prosecutor in the Antelope Valley and Van Nuys.

The neighborhoods that L.A. County Superior Court Judge Debra Archuleta won are all majority Latino neighborhoods. They are clustered around Pico Rivera, Whittier and Santa Fe Springs.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Maria Ramirez’s support was primarily in Southeast L.A., including Lynwood and Paramount.

Hatami and Ramirez have since endorsed Hochman. He has also received backing from McKinney and two other former candidates, David S. Milton and Craig Mitchell, both L.A. County Superior Court judges.

Momentum has shifted to Hochman after primary

With a total of $8.7 million raised as of Sept. 21, Hochman has been able to blanket the county with TV advertisements. Gascón has raised just shy of $1 million. Nearly 80% of Hochman’s donors are based in L.A. County, while less than half of Gascón’s support comes from L.A.

After the primary, Hochman’s campaign received an uptick of donations from areas that Gascón won, such as Pasadena, where he got more than double the number of votes. In the last two months, polls show support for Hochman has grown 6 percentage points.