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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...