Byline: ERICA WERNER Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- City Attorney James Hahn was elected mayor in a contest that returned City Hall to the Democrats for the first time in eight years and dashed Hispanics' hopes of gaining political power to match their burgeoning numbers.
Hahn, a white liberal, assembled a coalition of blacks and white conservatives Tuesday to triumph over former state Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, another liberal Democrat who would have been Los Angeles' first Hispanic mayor since 1872.
Hahn received 54 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan …
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