1981 Los Angeles mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1981 Los Angeles mayoral election Los Angeles presidential no 1977 Los Angeles mayoral election 1977 1985 Los Angeles mayoral election 1985 1981 04 07 Tom Bradley, 1980.jpg Tom Bradley c0c0c0 293,501 63.84% Sam Yorty, 1960s (3x4 crop).jpg Sam Yorty c0c0c0 148,193 32.23% Mayor Tom Bradley Tom Bradley The 1981 Los Angeles mayoral election took place on April 7, 1981. Incumbent Tom Bradley was re-elected over former Mayor Sam Yorty. The election was a third rematch between Bradley and Yorty, the other two being in 1969 and 1973.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19810413.1.6&srpos=16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- It's Bradley vs. Yorty, in LA. race April 13, 1981 San Bernardino Sun It would be the last time a Mayor would be elected to a third term, as voters amended the city charter in 1993 to implement a two-term limit for the office of Mayor.https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/leagues/los-angeles/structureofacity.pdf LOS ANGELES: STRUCTURE OF A CITY GOVERNMENT League of Women Voters Municipal elections in California, including Mayor of Los Angeles, are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot. Candidates Sally Acosta Mort Allen Eileen Anderson Tom Bradley, incumbent mayor since 1973 Douglas Carlton Robert Deutsch Robert S. Fischer Jr. Daniel Webster Henderson Jr. Michael A. Hirt Arnold B. Luster Max Odrezin Zack Richardson Henry V. Seyfried Earl Smith Tangela Masson Tricoli, pilot and public-access television host James A. Ware Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles John Anthony Zrynyi Declined Daryl Gates, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Election Yorty had been a last-minute challenger, saying that he had been urged to run after LAPD Chief Daryl Gates announced that he would not challenge Bradley.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19810120.2.32&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Yorty joins race January 20, 1981 The Desert Sunhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19810120.1.8&srpos=10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Yorty Becomes Last-Minute Challenger in LA Santa Cruz Sentinel January 20, 1981 Yorty said that he "sees the crime issue as the key to the contest" and was seen as injecting racism into the race by saying to a group of businessmen that "black people are really racist. They vote for black people because they're black."https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19810413.1.5&srpos=17&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Yorty makes crime an issue April 13, 1981 The Press Democrathttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19810406.1.9&srpos=11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Yorty injects racism into L.A. mayor's race April 6, 1981 The Press Democrat Bradley defeated Yorty and the other candidates in a landslide, with some calling the election a "lackluster affair."https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PAC19810415.1.5&srpos=20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Bradley wins third mayor's term at LA April 5, 1981 Argus-Courierhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19810315.1.9&srpos=5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- LA Mayoral Campaign Is A Lackluster Affair March 15, 1981 Santa Cruz Sentinel Results Los Angeles mayoral general election, April 7, 1981Los Angeles Mayor http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=230929 Our Campaigns Tom Bradley (incumbent) 293,501 63.84 Sam Yorty 148,193 32.23 Robert S. Fischer Jr. 2,464 0.54 Independent (United States) John Anthony Zrynyi 2,055 0.45 Libertarian Party (United States) Zack Richardson 1,835 0.40 Democratic Party (United States) Eileen Anderson 1,822 0.40 Sally Acosta 1,464 0.32 Jim Little 1,056 0.23 James A. Ware 1,050 0.23 Max Odrezin 969 0.21 Arnold B. Luster 966 0.21 Robert Deutsch 738 0.16 Tangela Masson Tricoli 704 0.15 Mort Allen 667 0.15 Earl Smith 625 0.14 Henry V. Seyfried 457 0.10 Michael A. Hirt 455 0.10 Daniel Webster Henderson Jr. 392 0.09 Douglas Carlton 368 0.08 459,781 100.00 References and footnotes External links Office of the City Clerk, City of Los Angeles https://web.archive.org/web/20110619161306/http://cityclerk.lacity.org/election/ June 19, 2011 1981 Los Angeles Los Angeles mayoral election Mayoral election Los Angeles mayoral election