Adrin Nazarian claimed victory in a race to represent parts of the San Fernando Valley on the Los Angeles City Council, while Heather Hutt retained the seat she was appointed to in 2022.

With Ysabel Jurado’s victory over incumbent Kevin de León to represent parts of the center and east side, the council will have a female majority for the first time.

Hutt sent an email to her supporters Tuesday to thank them for helping elect her to represent a district that stretches from Koreatown to the Crenshaw corridor.

Hutt, 65, was first appointee to the council position in 2022 after then councilor Mark Ridley-Thomas was accused of corruption.

She is the first woman, and the first black woman, elected to that position. When the new members begin work on Dec. 9, she will be one of eight women on the 15-member council.

“We feel good about seven; eight makes it great,” Hutt said in an interview Tuesday. He said homelessness, public safety and cleaning streets and sidewalks would be his priorities for the next four years.

Hutt led the District 10 race with 63% of the vote Monday night, according to the Los Angeles County Recorder/Clerk.

With a dwindling number of votes left to count, his opponent, Grace Yoo, appears to have no way to catch up.

Hutt was backed by Mayor Karen Bass and had the support of businesses and unions. She was a strong supporter of Healthy Streets LA, which was approved by voters in March and requires the city to build bus and bike lanes.

Yoo, an estate planning attorney and longtime critic of City Hall, raised nearly half a million dollars in the primary and general elections, slightly more than Hutt. Yoo had previously run twice for the District 10 seat, losing to incumbent Herb Wesson in 2015 and to Ridley-Thomas in 2020. Ridley-Thomas was indicted by federal prosecutors the following year and remains free while appeals his conviction.

District 10 encompasses all or part of Mid-City, Little Ethiopia, Leimert Park, La Cienega Heights, Baldwin Hills, Jefferson Park, Koreatown and South Robertson.

In the race to replace outgoing Councilman Paul Krekorian in the eastern San Fernando Valley, Nazarian had 54% of the vote as of Monday night, a nearly 10 percentage point lead over Jillian Burgos, a small business owner and member of the NoHo Neighborhood. Council.

Nazarian, a former state assemblyman and former Krekorian aide, said in a phone call Tuesday that he was “tired” but in “very good spirits.”

The veteran politician raised more than a million dollars during his campaign, a fraction of the amount contributed by Burgos. He was backed by business and labor groups and backed by Bass.

Burgos, which had the support of several center-left groups, including the Los Angeles Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, had been waiting expand the bloc of “super progressives” who have been pushing the council to the left.

The group includes councilors Eunisses Hernández and Hugo Soto-Martínez, who will soon be joined by Jurado, the new councilor for District 14.

Neither Burgos nor Yoo immediately responded to requests for comment.

Nazarian, 51, said some of his first actions as councilman will focus on homelessness in District 2, which includes all or part of North Hollywood, Studio City, Toluca Lake, Valley Glen, Valley Village and other areas. .

In summing up the city’s mood, Nazarian cited a “sense of insecurity that a lot of people feel.” Voters told him during the campaign that they didn’t feel comfortable walking on sidewalks and, in some cases, saw open drug use, he said.