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title: "Raman Welcomed by Los Angeles City Council After Mayoral Win"
url: https://www.herelosangeles.com/2026/11/11/raman-welcomed-by-los-angeles-city-council-first-meeting/
date: 2026-11-11T14:52:39-08:00
modified: 2026-11-11T14:52:39-08:00
author: "Courtney E. Aguirre"
categories: ["Politics"]
site: "HERE Los Angeles"
attribution: "HERE Los Angeles"
---

# Raman Welcomed by Los Angeles City Council After Mayoral Win

> LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Mayor-elect Nithya Raman walked into the Los Angeles City Council chamber on Tuesday for the first time since winning the mayor’s race, and the colleagues she will soon lead lined up to praise her. Every council member who attended spoke warmly about their time working with her and about what they

*Source: [HERE Los Angeles](https://www.herelosangeles.com/2026/11/11/raman-welcomed-by-los-angeles-city-council-first-meeting/) — November 11, 2026 by Courtney E. Aguirre*

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Mayor-elect Nithya Raman walked into the Los Angeles City Council chamber on Tuesday for the first time since winning the mayor’s race, and the colleagues she will soon lead lined up to praise her. Every council member who attended spoke warmly about their time working with her and about what they hope to accomplish once she is down the hall in the mayor’s office.

None of the council members had endorsed Raman during the campaign, yet several said they admired the fact that she ran her race on her own. Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson introduced her and called her the embodiment of what Los Angeles is. He used his remarks to defend the election process itself, saying political differences are settled through voting rather than by fighting in the street or by crippling one side economically, socially or physically.

Raman thanked the council members for their shared commitment to cooperating on behalf of residents. She acknowledged that the members came to the job from different perspectives and that the passion behind those views sometimes makes debates heated, but she said the council has worked through its differences before and that she knows how to do that work. Being down the hall, she said, would not make her forget how. She told the room that every member in attendance, along with Councilmember Traci Park, who was absent, had each helped her grow as a council member and will help her as mayor. She then singled out one achievement she admires from each current member.

The exchange gave an early look at the working relationships Raman will need to move her proposals through the council once she takes over from Mayor Karen Bass. Bass conceded the race on Thursday, posting that the people of Los Angeles had spoken and that she had called Raman to congratulate her and to commit to a smooth and seamless transition. In a later interview, Bass said voters had made their choice and democracy had worked, and she wished Raman the best.

Vote totals showed Raman with 608,897 ballots, about 54.8 percent, against just over 500,000 for Bass, or 45.2 percent, with an estimated 99 percent of the votes counted. Asked whether she plans to stay in politics, Bass answered that it was doubtful. She said she has spent her life in service without asking what she wants personally, and that the moment for that has arrived. Bass served in the California Assembly from 2004 to 2010 and in Congress from 2011 to 2022 before voters elected her mayor in 2022. She called leading the city the greatest honor possible.