Kirk Watson, Austin Mayor

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson poised to win reelection but race still too close to call
Unofficial final results show incumbent Austin Mayor Kirk Watson barely cleared the threshold needed to avoid a runoff.
Election results: Kirk Watson appears to narrowly avoid runoff to win race for Austin mayor
With five candidates on the ballot, it takes at least a 50% vote total for a single candidate to not require a runoff.
Watson is ahead in election for Austin mayor, but it's unclear if he'll avoid 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 runoff election in December.
Austinites vote to elect next mayor, Watson leads in a landslide
The city of Austin has turned out in high numbers on Election Day-- eager to elect the next mayor for the Captiol City.
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Watson currently has a majority in two of the three counties that Austin is situated in. Based on unofficial results, he won 57.63% of the vote in Hays County and 50.05% in Travis County. Watson won a plurality in Williamson County — 49.04%.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson appears to land reelection, outlast 4 contenders
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 set to narrowly avoid runoff, would win reelection with 50.01% of Austin mayoral votes
Incumbent Mayor Kirk Watson would narrowly avoid a runoff and win reelection if unofficial results, which show him with more than 50% of the vote, stand.
See photos of Austin mayoral candidate Kirk Watson's election night watch party
See photos from Austin mayoral candidate Kirk Watson's election night watch party. Microsoft's nuclear power partner Constellation Energy saw its stock drop on Monday as strong earnings couldn't overcome a ruling from the FERC late Friday that was pressuring nuclear stocks across the board.
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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 ...