Early voting turnout for runoff outpaces first round of San Antonio city election

o far, voters appear more interested in San Antonio’s heated June 7 runoff contests than the first round of voting.

An overwhelmingly long ticket, voter fatigue and Fiesta celebrations were all blamed for depressingly low turnout in the May 3 election, where 10 council seats and a 27-candidate mayor’s race were on the ballot.

Now voters are down to a head-to-head mayoral contest between two ideologically opposite candidates, Gina Ortiz Jones and Rolando Pablos, as well as City Council runoffs in Districts 1, 6, 8 and 9, since no candidate took 50% of the vote in the first round of those races.

With the exception of District 6, all of the runoffs came down to left-right matchups, adding to the polarization of a nonpartisan election.



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