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

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

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 ...

As remarks were shared, it seemingly became more evident to councilmembers, that this wasn’t a typical call, or even a real ...

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 ...

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 ...

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson as mayor, while in Round Rock, voters approved three out of four propositions for a school district's nearly $1 billion bond.

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