According to Fox News this morning, Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa has trounced Mayor James Hahn to become the city's first Hispanic mayor in more than a century, as voters embraced the promise of change in a metropolis troubled by gridlock, gangs and failing schools.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Villaraigosa had 260,721 votes, or 59 percent, to 183,749 votes, or 41 percent, for Hahn. A very poor turnout indeed considering that there is many millions of people in Los Angeles.
The election will have an impact even beyond Los Angeles. Villaraigosa's decisive victory immediately places him among the front rank of the nation's Latino political elite, while his city becomes the largest in America to be led by a Hispanic mayor.
When he is sworn in July 1, Villaraigosa will become the first Hispanic mayor of Los Angeles since 1872, back when the city was merely a dusty outpost of only about 5,000 residents.
Hahn, the scion of a prominent political family, becomes the first Los Angeles mayor in 32 years to be bounced from office.
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