Election 2026 · City of Los Angeles

LA City Council District 3

Published September 29, 2026 · Updated October 1, 2026

Timothy K. Gaspar and Barri Worth Girvan are the candidates for LA City Council District 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

The City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of Los Angeles. It has 15 members, and each one is elected by the voters of one district. The Council passes City laws, called ordinances, which the Mayor can approve or veto. It also approves or changes the budget the Mayor proposes each year.

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Primary results, June 2, 2026

Three candidates. No one won a majority, so the top two, Timothy K. Gaspar and Barri Worth Girvan, advanced to November 3. Total votes: 48,319. The County Registrar's final results are dated June 26, 2026. Certified results

The candidates

The job

What a Councilmember does. The 15-member City Council passes City laws, adopts the budget the Mayor proposes, and approves or rejects the Mayor’s picks to run most departments and sit on commissions, LAist explains (LAist). Ordinances go to the Mayor, who can approve or veto them, and the Council can override a veto by a two-thirds vote (City Charter Sec. 250, as reproduced in Council File 26-0489). Under current Charter text the Council can change the Mayor’s budget by June 1, and a Mayor’s veto of those changes takes a two-thirds vote to override (Charter Secs. 313 and 315, as printed in the November 2026 Voter Information Pamphlet). The FY 2026-27 City budget is $14.85 billion (Mayor’s office).

Each member also runs a district office that works with more than 40 City departments on local services and plays “a vital role in shaping development” in the district (LAist). The anti-camping law, LAMC 41.18, lets Council members designate areas near schools, libraries, senior centers and other sensitive places as no-camping zones (LA Times). Each member represents about 260,000 people (LAist).

The district. Council District 3 covers the southwest San Fernando Valley: Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Canoga Park, Winnetka and Reseda (LAist; Daily News). South of Ventura Boulevard are hillside ranch homes. Flatter areas to the north mix single-family homes with apartments and commercial strips (LAist). Bob Blumenfield has held the seat since 2013 and is termed out (Daily News). LAist says the district’s voters “historically have sent centrist (for Los Angeles) Democrats and Republicans” to the Council.

Local issues in the news.

• Rams Village and Warner Center. The Rams’ owner is building a 52-acre complex in Woodland Hills with the team headquarters, more than 3,000 homes, venues, a hotel and shops (LA Times, Aug 18, 2026). The LA Times put its cost at more than $10 billion (LA Times, April 2025). A separate $2 billion plan, Viva L.A., would add four senior-housing towers of 34 to 42 stories with 3,192 units under the Mayor’s Executive Directive 1 (LA Times, Aug 18, 2026). LAist notes that nearby former rocket-engine land in Canoga Park is still awaiting environmental cleanup.
• Woodland Hills Country Club. A developer, Arrimus Capital, proposed 398 homes on the golf course under a state fast-track law, AB 2011. In August 2026 the Council voted 11-1 to start a zoning change and then approved it unanimously, and City Planning found the site is mountain lion habitat (Daily News, Aug 21; Daily News, Aug 26; LA Times, Aug 22). Abundant Housing LA and other housing groups opposed Blumenfield’s move (Daily News, Aug 26).
• Fire risk. Parts of the district are in “very high” fire hazard severity zones near the Santa Monica Mountains (Daily News, Aug 21).
• Other issues. LA Public Press lists housing and homelessness, public safety, transportation and closing gaps in the LA River bike path as issues the next member will face (LA Public Press).

Records

Neither candidate has held City office, so neither has a Council voting record.

Timothy K. Gaspar

Business. Gaspar founded Gaspar Insurance in 2008. His campaign says it grew to more than 60 employees and 11,000 clients (campaign site). He sold it in 2021 and now campaigns full time, his spokesperson told the LA Times (LA Times).

Civic roles. His campaign lists leadership roles with Discovery Cube Los Angeles, the Metropolitan YMCA of Los Angeles, Viewpoint School, the Woodland Hills/Warner Center Chamber of Commerce and the CSUN Nazarian School of Business (campaign site). LA Public Press also lists the Viewpoint School board of trustees (LA Public Press).

Public positions before the race. In a June 2025 campaign essay he opposed two proposed UNITE HERE Local 11 initiatives: a $30 citywide minimum wage and voter approval for large new hotels (campaign essay, June 26, 2025). Neither is on the November ballot (County Registrar’s list of measures). In December 2025 he wrote that the Woodland Hills Country Club project “cannot proceed as planned” (campaign essay, Dec. 15, 2025).

Ethics and lawsuits. No public enforcement actions found in FPPC, City Ethics Commission or FEC records (FPPC case search; City Ethics enforcement orders; FEC legal search). He is not a State Bar licensee (State Bar search). Searched Sept. 30, 2026.

Barri Worth Girvan

Public-sector career. She interned for Rep. Brad Sherman, worked in Assemblymember Lloyd Levine’s field office, was West Valley area director for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and district director for Senate Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg, and directed government affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles (LAist). She is director of community affairs for Supervisor Lindsey Horvath (LA Times), where LAist says she worked on fire recovery and constituent services (LAist).

Record she claims. Her campaign says she helped pass the County’s 2024 ethics reform package and helped secure $23.5 million in state budget money for camps destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey Fire (campaign bio). Villaraigosa’s endorsement statement says she led his office’s West Valley work when the LAPD Topanga Station opened (campaign endorsements). These are the campaign’s descriptions; no independent record was found.

Party roles. She is an elected member of the LA County Democratic Party, was a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, and served as an appointee to the San Fernando Valley Council of Governments (Daily News questionnaire).

Ethics and lawsuits. No public enforcement actions found in FPPC, City Ethics Commission or FEC records (FPPC case search; City Ethics enforcement orders; FEC legal search). She is not a State Bar licensee (State Bar search). Searched Sept. 30, 2026.

Where they stand

Positions come from the candidates’ Daily News questionnaires and campaign sites, the March debate as reported by LA Public Press, and LAist, LA Times and Daily News coverage.

On the other ballot measures

Neither candidate holds City office, so neither voted to place any measure on the ballot. No stated position was found for either candidate on any measure on this ballot. We checked campaign websites, the Daily News questionnaires and news coverage through Sept 29, 2026.

Source: measures from the County Registrar’s list of measures on the November 3 ballot.

Endorsements

Gaspar’s list is from his campaign site as archived on May 6, 2026, the most recent copy available (archived list). Worth Girvan’s is from her current campaign site (endorsements). Rep. Luz Rivas was on Gaspar’s May list; the LA Times reported on August 17 that she backs Worth Girvan (LA Times). Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, IBEW Local 40 and Calabasas Councilmembers Ed Albrecht and Alicia Weintraub appear on both Gaspar’s May 6 list and Worth Girvan’s current list (Gaspar list, May 6; Worth Girvan list). Gaspar’s list may have changed since May 6, so we can’t say whether they still back him.

Timothy K. Gaspar

• Elected officials:
  • Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who holds the seat now (LA Times); Councilmembers Monica Rodriguez, Tim McOsker and John Lee (campaign list, May 6).
  • Supervisor Kathryn Barger (LAist, Sept 29); Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (campaign list, May 6).
  • Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg (LAist, Sept 29); former Councilmember Laura Chick; former Assemblymember Paula Boland (campaign list, May 6).
  • Christopher “C.R.” Celona, who finished third in the primary, endorsed him after the primary (LA Times).
• Party: None found. The County Democratic Party endorsed Worth Girvan (Worth Girvan’s list).
• Unions: Los Angeles Police Protective League; IBEW Locals 18 and 40; UA Local 250; Painters DC 36; ILWU Local 13; Sprinkler Fitters 709; LA Airport Peace Officers Association; Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs; LASPMA (campaign list, May 6).
• Business groups: Valley Industry & Commerce Association, BizFed, Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles and Southland Regional Association of Realtors (campaign list, May 6).
• Organizations and others: Avance Democratic Club, Democratic Municipal Officials, Blue Wave Democratic Club, Israeli-American Civic Action Network; developer Rick Caruso (campaign list, May 6).
• Newspapers: Los Angeles Daily News editorial board, in the primary (Daily News, Apr 29). No general-election editorial found.

Barri Worth Girvan

• Elected officials:
  • Supervisor Lindsey Horvath and Assessor Jeffrey Prang (campaign list).
  • Reps. Julia Brownley (campaign list) and Luz Rivas (LA Times).
  • State Sens. Ben Allen, Henry Stern, Caroline Menjivar and Maria Elena Durazo; Assemblymembers Mark González, Rick Chavez Zbur, Nick Schultz, Jesse Gabriel, Celeste Rodriguez, Jacqui Irwin, Mike Fong and Pilar Schiavo (campaign list).
  • Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, and former Councilmembers Joy Picus, Paul Koretz, David Ryu, Bernard Parks and Joe Buscaino (campaign list).
  • LACCD Trustee Andra Hoffman and LAUSD Board Member Nick Melvoin (campaign list).
• Party: Los Angeles County Democratic Party; Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley (campaign list).
• Unions: LA County Federation of Labor (LA Times); SEIU Locals 721 and 2015 and SEIU-UHW; IBEW Locals 11 and 40; Teamsters Joint Council 42 and Local 386; AFSCME District Council 36 and Local 3634; Western States Regional Council of Carpenters; NUHW; UNAC/UHCP; California IATSE Council; CWA; SMART Local 105; Operating Engineers Local 12; AFT 1521; Ironworkers Locals 416 and 433; Engineers & Architects Association; LA Professional Managers’ Association (campaign list).
• Organizations: LA League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, California Women’s List, Women’s Political Committee, Fund Her PAC, National Women’s Political Caucus-SFV, San Fernando NOW, Democrats for Israel LA, Stonewall Democratic Club and other Democratic clubs (campaign list).
• Newspapers: None found.

Polls

No public polls of this race were found.

Money

Source: City Ethics Commission, 2026 election totals. “Raised” follows the Ethics definition and excludes matching funds. The candidates’ own gifts are from the committees’ contribution records in City campaign contribution data.

The limit is $1,000 per person per election. The Council matching-fund maximum is $189,000 in the primary and $236,000 in the general (Ethics 2024 CPI table). Both received the primary maximum. The spending limit for candidates taking matching funds was lifted in the primary on April 20, 2026 because of independent spending for Gaspar (City Ethics).

Data check: contributions in the City’s donor-level data (City campaign contribution data) add up to the Ethics “raised” figure to the cent for both candidates, and matching-fund receipts match Ethics for both.

Who is giving

Method: itemized contributions to both committees of each candidate through Sep 19, 2026, from City campaign contribution data. A donor is a normalized name plus ZIP code. Refunds are netted. Unitemized gifts under $100 ($7,565 for Gaspar, $11,068 for Worth Girvan) are left out of donor counts. A ZIP code counts as inside the district, or inside the City, if at least half its area is inside (from the City’s council district map and ZIP code map and its list of City ZIP codes).

Source: our count of itemized contributions in City campaign contribution data.

Source: donor ZIP codes in City campaign contribution data, matched to the City’s council district and ZIP code maps.

Counting every ZIP code that touches the district, 33.2% of Gaspar’s dollars and 26.7% of Worth Girvan’s come from the district area.

Tim Gaspar

Gaspar has 1,077 itemized donors (City campaign contribution data). Two thirds of his itemized dollars (67.3%) came in maximum-size gifts. About a quarter (24.4%) came from inside the district and 64.3% from City ZIP codes overall. His own $41,000 is 5.4% of itemized dollars.

Top employers listed by donors (City campaign contribution data): Foundation Risk Partners (25 donors, $16,975); City of Los Angeles (18, $6,000). Industries: finance and insurance 13.7% (154 donors, $104,870); real estate and development 10.6% (93 donors, $80,868); not employed or retired 16.1%; law 4.5%; labor unions 1.3% (10 donors, $9,800). 30.4% could not be assigned an industry.

Organizations that gave directly (City campaign contribution data) include the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce PAC, the Home Depot Action Committee, the California Real Estate PAC, the Apartment Association of Greater LA PAC, New Majority PAC, ILWU Local 13 PAC and the Southern California Pipe Trades PAC ($2,000 each), and BOMA of Greater LA PAC, the Hospital Association of Southern California PAC, the Central City Association PAC, LA Jobs PAC and the California Apartment Association PAC ($1,000 each). Donors who have held elected office include former state Sen. Bob Hertzberg ($1,000) and Councilmember Bob Blumenfield ($500) (City campaign contribution data). The LA Times also named the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce among his runoff donors (LA Times).

Shared employer and timing in the contribution data (five or more donors from one employer within three days): Foundation Risk Partners, 5 donors Dec 9-11, 2024 ($3,500) and 5 donors Dec 30-31, 2025 ($450).

Registered City lobbyists: no donor matches a registered City lobbyist by both name and firm (City lobbyist registry). City contractors: 15 donors ($8,850, 1.2%) list an employer that is a City vendor in City Ethics contract data. No vendor gave directly.

Barri Worth Girvan

Worth Girvan has 663 itemized donors (City campaign contribution data). Just over half her itemized dollars (55.4%) came in maximum-size gifts, and donors under $250 were 41.2% of her donors. About 15.5% of her itemized dollars came from inside the district and 65.7% from City ZIP codes overall.

Top employers by donors (City campaign contribution data): County of Los Angeles (14 donors, $5,397); State of California (10, $4,736); City of Los Angeles (8, $3,586); California State Assembly (7, $3,100); FMBK (7, $6,293); Temple Judea (5). Industries: not employed or retired 19.9%; law 13.8% (77 donors); labor unions 7.5% (23 donors, $26,500); government 5.6%; lobbying and public affairs 2.2%; real estate and development 2.9% (21 donors, $10,144). 15.1% could not be assigned an industry.

Organizations that gave directly are mostly unions (City campaign contribution data): NUHW’s candidate committee, Teamsters Local 396 PAC, the LA College Guild, AFSCME Local 3634 and AFSCME Council 36 PAC ($2,000 each), and SMART Local 105, Operating Engineers Local 12, IBEW Locals 11 and 40, SEIU Locals 721 and 2015 and the Engineers and Architects Association ($1,000 each). The Women’s Political Committee and Mike Fong for Assembly 2026 gave $2,000 each. Donors who have held elected office include former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon ($2,000), former Councilmember David Ryu ($1,500) and Supervisor Lindsey Horvath ($150). The LA Times also reported her donations from Rendon, Ryu and Assemblymember Mark González (LA Times).

Shared employer and timing: none in the contribution data (no five donors from one employer within three days). Registered City lobbyists: no donor matches a registered City lobbyist by both name and firm (City lobbyist registry). City contractors: 13 donors ($6,439, 1.8%) list an employer that is a City vendor in City Ethics contract data; no vendor gave directly.

Industry rule: each donor gets the first category whose keywords match the employer name, then the occupation. Insurance counts as finance.

Outside spending

From the City Ethics independent expenditure search (supporting Gaspar; supporting Worth Girvan) and the election totals, which show no spending against either candidate.

Source: independent expenditure reports in the City Ethics search (Gaspar; Worth Girvan).

Member communications supporting Worth Girvan: SEIU 721 ($806.01), the LA County Democratic Party ($438.39) and SEIU 2015 ($3.73) (City Ethics election totals).

Who funds the outside committees. Contributions received from Jan 1, 2025 through the latest filing, from City campaign contribution data, the committees’ independent expenditure reports (City Ethics search) and Cal-Access committee pages linked below.

Angelenos for Progress (Gaspar; $600,000 received through July 31; City data): Central City Association PAC $599,000; Thrive LA PAC $1,000.

• Central City Association PAC ($2.29 million received in 2025-26; City data): the Airbnb-sponsored Committee to Expand the Middle Class $1,600,000; Uber Innovation PAC $175,000; NBCUniversal $100,000; Delta Air Lines $75,000; Sempra $55,000; McCourt Partners Real Estate $25,000; Chevron $20,000.
• The Airbnb committee’s only reported contribution since Jan 1, 2025 is $15,000,000 from Airbnb, Inc. (Cal-Access, Committee to Expand the Middle Class).

California Alliance of Family Owned Businesses PAC ($7.21 million received; Cal-Access): its largest donors are NICWIL Alondra ($196,382), MINC ($193,507), Alia Corporation ($185,508), CAM-BAS ($184,014) and RNLAWAD ($175,002), each “and affiliated entities” where filed.

California Apartment Association Housing Solutions Committee ($905,313 received through June 30; City data): CAA Independent Expenditure Committee $580,313; CAA PAC $325,000.

• CAA Independent Expenditure Committee ($12.4 million received; Cal-Access): Essex Property Trust $2,998,028; Equity Residential $2,168,220; AvalonBay Communities $1,961,410; Prime Residential $823,339; Apartment Income REIT (AIMCO) $594,694; the Airbnb committee $200,000.

LAPPL Independent Expenditure Committee ($4,356,350 received; it spends in other races too; City data): Los Angeles Police Protective League $3,500,000; Douglas Emmett Properties $525,000; Jerry Greenberg $150,000; Kilroy Realty $100,000.

Working Californians, sponsored by IBEW Local 18 (contributions listed on its City independent expenditure reports): the Airbnb committee $750,000; IBEW Local 18 Water and Power Defense League $250,000; Uber Innovation PAC $200,000; Southern California Pipe Trades PAC $50,000; McCourt Partners Real Estate $50,000; Active Ballot Club General Fund $49,000. The LA Times reported that Airbnb said the candidates it backs favor expanding short-term rentals (LA Times).

Angelenos for Good Jobs and Safe Neighborhoods (BizFed; $40,000 received; it also backs Jose Ugarte and John McKinney; City data): California Real Estate PAC $20,000; BizFed PAC $10,000; Apartment Association of Greater LA PAC $10,000.

Angelenos for Safe Transportation PAC ($149,992 received; Cal-Access): L.A. Taxi Cooperative (Yellow Cab) $99,848; Fiesta Taxi Co-Op $21,936; United Checker $17,488; Long Beach Yellow Cab $10,720.

Thrive LA PAC ($299,750 received; City data): Jason Larian $241,785; one other individual $25,000; Sempra $10,000.

Working People in Support of Barri Worth (LA Fed; $266,451 received; City data): SEIU Local 721 Workers’ Strength Committee $100,000; IBEW Local 11 PAC $75,000; a transfer of $35,119 from the LA Fed’s committee backing Maria Elena Durazo for Supervisor; NUHW’s committee $25,000; LA Fed $11,332; SMART Local 105 PAC $10,000; UFCW Active Ballot Club $10,000.

• SEIU 721 Workers’ Strength Committee (Cal-Access): SEIU Political Education and Action Fund $1,800,000; SEIU COPE $1,724,493; SEIU Local 721 $1,000,000.
• IBEW Local 11 PAC (Cal-Access): all $1,893,205 of its 2025-26 receipts were unitemized member contributions under $100.

Building a Stronger California (Carpenters), LA Jobs PAC and Greater Cities Partnership: we have not traced their funders. LA Jobs PAC’s independent expenditure report lists a $7,500 contribution from Mayer Brown LLP.

Behested payments

Neither candidate holds City office, so neither files City behested payment reports. A search of City behested payment reports for both names found none.

Key moments

Debates and forums

No general-election debate between the two was found as of Sept 29, 2026.

Events

• Outside money in the primary (April to June 2026).

  • What happened: independent spending for Gaspar lifted the spending limit on April 20 (City Ethics). The LA Times reported that Airbnb, Uber, the California Apartment Association, the police union and IBEW Local 18 spent $1.39 million through outside committees (LA Times).
  • Worth Girvan’s response: “We were massively outspent with that kind of money, but the voters clearly spoke.” She called her second-place finish “a virtual tie” (LA Times).
  • Gaspar’s response: none found on the outside money. He cited his endorsements from Blumenfield and Celona: “We feel like those are the endorsements that resonate with voters here” (LA Times).

• Woodland Hills Country Club housing (2025-2026).

  • What happened: see The job. The Council acted in August 2026 on a motion by Blumenfield (Daily News; LA Times). Blumenfield has endorsed Gaspar (LA Times).
  • Gaspar’s position: he opposed the project, saying at a March debate that “the community has a right to be at the table” (LA Public Press). In a December 2025 campaign essay he wrote that it “cannot proceed as planned” (campaign essay).
  • Worth Girvan’s position: she would not support it without a fire prevention plan (LA Public Press).