Spencer Pratt , the star of a long-running reality show, is closing in on a renewal in the Los Angeles mayoral race, but this season’s finale may yet contain some surprises. With 62 percent of the vote counted by 6 p.m. Wednesday evening, the Hills star-turned-political gadfly sat in second place with just under 30 percent of the vote in his bid to run California’s largest city, ahead of his third-place rival, progressive City Council Member Nithya Raman , by 7 percent. Pratt has garnered 157,000 votes to Raman’s 120,000 — but a whopping 300,000 votes remain to be counted. Tranches were expected to be released slowly in the coming day, or days. Raman also appeared to be slightly closing the gap as counting continued, in keeping with a trend of Republican votes tending to come earlier in the tallying; she had been down 10 points Tuesday night. Whoever prevails will advance to November’s two-person runoff.…