When the Travis County Clerk released the final tally of votes for Austin mayor early Wednesday, none of the candidates had ...

Unofficial final results show incumbent Austin Mayor Kirk Watson barely cleared the threshold needed to avoid a runoff.

With five candidates on the ballot, it takes at least a 50% vote total for a single candidate to not require a runoff.

Mayor Kirk Watson is defending his seat against four opponents. He needs to earn 50% of the vote, plus one vote, to avoid a ...

Four challengers hoping to unseat Austin Mayor Kirk Watson are facing a tough fight against an incumbent with more than two ...

Even with unofficial results fully tabulated in the Austin mayoral race, KXAN is still unable to make a projection nearly one ...

To avoid a runoff, a candidate needs more than 50% of the vote. Austin Mayor Kirk Watson had 50.01% of the overall vote as of ...

At the top of the local ballot, incumbent mayor Kirk Watson’s December plans remain unclear. If he nets more than 50% of the total votes cast by Austin voters (across three counties: Travis, ...

Early election results show incumbent Austin Mayor Kirk Watson winning; he championed an overhaul of the city’s land use code ...

Our earlier conclusion that Kirk Watson had squeaked by without having a runofff was based on our chart, which has now been ...

Watson currently has a majority in two of the three counties that Austin is situated in. Based on unofficial results, he won ...