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.

Incumbent Mayor Kirk Watson needs a majority of votes to be declared a winner and avoid a runoff. There were 3,200 ...

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 ...

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson has taken flak for a take-charge style that can leave his council colleagues and the public in the dark. If that irks some people, Watson isn't apologizing. “Look, we don't ...

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, ...

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

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

Four challengers hoping to unseat Austin Mayor Kirk Watson are facing a tough fight against an incumbent with more than two decades of name recognition, political fundraising prowess and broad appeal.