Tenant rights attorney Ysabel Jurado Wednesday increased her lead over City Councilman Kevin de León to 385 votes in the race for the 14th District council seat.
Jurado has 8,564 votes, 24.53%, to 8,179, 23.42% for de León, according to figures released Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk.
Jurado entered Wednesday’s resumption of the ballot count with a 318-vote lead.
Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, remained in third with 7,432 votes, 21.28%.
With 37,902 ballots returned and 34,918 processed, there are 2,984 ballots remaining to be processed.
Because no candidate in the field of eight will receive a majority, the top two candidates will meet in a runoff in November, likely Jurado and de León.
With more than 76% of the primary vote going to candidates other than de León, Jurado is the heavy favorite in the runoff.
Jurado took the lead for the first time Tuesday after trailing by 26 votes following the completion of Monday’s count.
Jurado was in third with 18.92% of the vote, according to figures released last Wednesday. De León led with 27.15% and Santiago was second with 20.27%.
De León drew the ire of the public and fellow elected officials, including President Joe Biden, for his participation in a secretly recorded conversation in 2021 over redistricting that included a series of racist remarks.
The 14th District encompasses Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, Downtown Los Angeles, El Sereno and Northeast Los Angeles.