After eight days of early voting, more votes have been cast in the District 1 City Council runoff between incumbent Mario Bravo and challenger Sukh Kaur than in the open District 7 race between Marina Alderete Gavito and Dan Rossiter.
Early voting ended Tuesday for the June 10 election to decide the two remaining council seats.
Including mail ballots, 5,721 early votes were cast in District 1, according to data provided by San Antonio political strategist Kelton Morgan.
That’s 53.5% of the 10,689 total votes cast in the two runoff races and more than the 3,979 early votes cast in the 2021 runoff, in which Bravo ousted three-term incumbent Roberto Treviño.
District 7 voters cast 4,968 ballots during early voting, or 46.5% of the total runoff votes, according to Morgan, who runs a political action committee backing Kaur and Gavito.
Voters in the two districts have one more opportunity to cast their ballots Saturday. They can use any of Bexar County’s 49 election day vote centers, which will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
For more information on voting in the runoff, see our guide.
The District 1 contest pits Bravo, a first-term incumbent, against Kaur, a former teacher and administrator who owns an education consulting company.
Kaur finished first in the May 6 contest with 34% of the vote. Bravo took 26% of the vote, finishing second in the seven-way race.
District 7 voters are choosing a replacement for Ana Sandoval, who represented the Westside council district from 2017 until January, when she stepped down to accept a higher-paying job at University Health.
Gavito is a tech executive and former vice president of the Woodlawn Lake Community Association. She finished first in the May 6 contest with 43% of the vote.
Rossiter is a computer scientist and former president of the Thunderbird Hills Neighborhood Association. He finished second with 21% of the vote in May.
Candidates in both races faced off in a May 24 debate hosted by the San Antonio Report. A video of that event can be found here.
