California holds a special election on October 3 to fill the vacant 51st district Assembly seat. The seat is in central Los Angeles. Here is the list of the 13 candidates who will be on the ballot. There are ten Democrats, one independent, one Libertarian, and one Peace & Freedom member.
If anyone gets 50% on October 13, that person is elected. Otherwise the top two candidates will be in a runoff in December.
Its sad that the GOP didn’t even bother to run anyone, hopefully one of the non-DEM candidates makes it to the runoff.
Clinton carried the district 84:10. It was also Stein’s 2nd strongest district (after the North Coast district).
It is extremely likely that the two top vote-getters will both be Democrats. In California primaries, the voters are mostly focused on which major party candidate will be chosen. Traditionally voters only pay attention to minor party and independent candidates after the major party primaries are settled. But of course in the top-two system it is then too late.
That voters in California, particularly in Los Angeles, are focused on anything is quite unlikely.