Democratic Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman is projected to advance to a runoff for the city’s mayoral election against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, according to NBC News. PBS NewsHour also reports that Raman moves forward to a November runoff. The upcoming contest is expected to focus on long-running city challenges, including homelessness and deteriorating streets and sidewalks, as well as rising rent and home and housing prices. With both candidates tied to the Democratic Party, the election is also framed as a test of whether many voters in heavily Democratic Los Angeles want the city’s leadership to move further to the political left to address these issues. The runoff takes place in November, and the final outcome will determine who leads the city in the next term. Both sources agree on Raman’s advancement to the runoff and Bass as her opponent, while differing only in the level of detail provided about the projected result and the issues likely to shape the campaign.