Judge of the Superior Court, Office No. 131
Los Angeles County, California
My vote power
Above average
Election date
November 3, 2026 · Runoff election
How do we calculate my vote power?
What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.
Representation: Above average · 56 out of 100
This district is a good deal smaller than its state, so each vote here carries more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 9,808,667 people live here.
Show the representation math
score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(39,287,377 ÷ 9,808,667) ÷ ln(50,000) = 56.41, measured against a statewide vote in CA (grades: 66+ high, 55+ above average, 33+ average, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
Decisiveness: Unknown
No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.
Above average representation → My vote power: Above average.
Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information.
About this office
- Deciding trials in the county
- Ruling on evidence and setting sentences in criminal cases
- Deciding family, probate, and civil disputes
Affects: Public Safety and Crime Control, Housing Affordability, Civil Rights,
Candidates
Nonpartisan · declared
David Ross is a Grade IV deputy alternate public defender in Los Angeles County with a 30-year indigent-defense career: more than 10,000 clients, 113 jury trials, and over 2,000 preliminary hearings. He also teaches as an adjunct professor and earlier worked as a television news reporter.
Records: Legal Competence 1 for
Nonpartisan · declared
Donna Tryfman is a Los Angeles County deputy public defender in the office's Major Cases Unit with about three decades in public defense. She led the California Public Defenders Association from 2015 to 2020 and won the 2025 Gideon Award as felony attorney of the year.
Records: Legal Competence 1 for
Sources: results.lavote.gov · laist.com