Eight candidates – including an incumbent and his predecessor – are running to lead the country’s largest sheriff department in the June 2 primary election.
The candidates, all current or former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, are running on differing approaches to homelessness, immigration enforcement and how to manage the department’s billion-dollar budget.

Gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer pledged to defend California’s public universities against the Trump administration – including by suing the federal government – at a UCLA event Monday.

Incumbent Karen Bass and 13 challengers are running for Los Angeles mayor.
Voters will choose the top two candidates in the June 2 primary election to advance to a November runoff, unless a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the primary and automatically wins the office.

Sixty-one candidates are running to be California’s next governor.
Only two will advance to the November general election after Tuesday’s primary election – regardless of political party affiliation.

This post was updated May 31 at 8:33 p.m.
Democratic incumbent Ted Lieu and six challengers are running for California’s 36th congressional district, which encompasses UCLA and parts of West Los Angeles.

This post was updated May 31 at 8:36 p.m.
Four measures seeking to raise taxes will appear on Los Angeles’s June 2 ballot.
The measures, if passed, would subsidize LA County’s public health system amid federal funding cuts and fill in tax gaps for unlicensed cannabis businesses and online travel companies.

This post was updated May 31 at 10:44 p.m.
Two Democrats – including an incumbent – and a Republican retired businessman are among the candidates vying to represent UCLA and its surrounding areas in the state assembly.