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Hugo Soto-Martinez
2022 - Present
2026
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Hugo Soto-Martinez is a member of the Los Angeles City Council in California, representing District 13. He assumed office on December 12, 2022. His current term ends on December 14, 2026.
Soto-Martinez ran for election to the Los Angeles City Council to represent District 13 in California. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Soto-Martinez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Hugo Soto-Martinez earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine, in 2006.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: City elections in Los Angeles, California (2022)
General election
General election for Los Angeles City Council District 13
Hugo Soto-Martinez defeated incumbent Mitch O'Farrell in the general election for Los Angeles City Council District 13 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Hugo Soto-Martinez (Nonpartisan)  | 57.8 | 38,069 |
 | Mitch O'Farrell (Nonpartisan) | 42.2 | 27,797 | |
| Total votes: 65,866 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Los Angeles City Council District 13
Hugo Soto-Martinez and incumbent Mitch O'Farrell defeated Kate Pynoos, Steve Johnson, and Albert Corado in the primary for Los Angeles City Council District 13 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Hugo Soto-Martinez (Nonpartisan) | 40.6 | 19,196 |
| ✔ | | Mitch O'Farrell (Nonpartisan) | 31.6 | 14,952 |
 | Kate Pynoos (Nonpartisan) | 15.6 | 7,371 | |
 | Steve Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 7.7 | 3,648 | |
 | Albert Corado (Nonpartisan) | 4.4 | 2,081 | |
| Total votes: 47,248 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Hugo Soto-Martinez completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Soto-Martinez's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Our elected officials are quick to react to a minority of outspoken voices and criminalize the unhoused, wasting millions of dollars by pushing encampments from block to block. I plan to champion a different approach to helping those living on the street that prioritizes trust-based outreach and connects folks to real housing. We also need to massively scale up Project Homekey, which allows the city to utilize hotels, motels, vacant retail space,and underused buildings to convert these sites into housing. We must also tackle LA’s housing crisis. We need to reimagine the city’s housing approvals process and hugely grow LA’s affordable housing stock, through interventions like social housing and adaptive reuse.
- We need to transition to 100% clean energy by 2030. And, in doing so, we must center workers and the historically marginalized. We need to red circle wages, that is – ensure existing workers and their families do not have to suffer a pay cut to save the planet. We must then offer them immediate jobs and training in new careers so they can continue powering our city, but with safer jobs and the protection of a union. Ultimately, I’d like to see the DWP transformed into the largest union jobs program in this city’s history. We also need to invest in public transportation and reverse our city and Metro’s incorrect prioritization of white-collar commuters and tourists over the Black and Brown essential workers who are our public transit base.
- We cannot keep spending half of our unrestricted budget on the LAPD. Police officers are not equipped to go into the streets to deal with issues that should be the domain of social workers. The LA Times recently found that almost 90% of police calls were for nonviolent crimes of poverty, including homelessness. We must immediately remove armed officers from homelessness outreach, traffic enforcement, and all non-active shooter calls. We must also stop the ceaseless ratcheting up of the police budget, which has done nothing to prevent crime. We must replace armed officers on nonviolent calls with mental health crisis teams, nonviolent community mediators, and unarmed traffic enforcement.
To that end, some of my policy priorities include: creating good union jobs through education and training; solving homelessness by building supportive housing, converting vacant commercial real estate, and installing tenant protections; fighting to make healthcare a human right, changing our budget to reflect the values of our city; removing armed officers from nonviolent calls; and protecting the environment by transitioning to 100% clean energy.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate Los Angeles City Council District 13 |
Officeholder Los Angeles City Council District 13 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 24, 2022
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| Preceded by Mitch O'Farrell |
Los Angeles City Council District 13 2022-Present |
Succeeded by - |
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