San Antonio’s mayoral race and the winners of four City Council seats will all be decided in today’s June 7 runoffs.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, and voters can choose from any election day voting location.

We’ll post results here as soon as they come in.

These five runoffs have the potential to dramatically reshape the dynamics of a left-leaning City Council, which currently has just one conservative voice, serving in District 10.

Despite being nonpartisan positions, the mayor’s race, as well as runoffs in District 1, District 8 and District 9 all feature progressive versus conservative matchups. In District 6, two young progressives advanced from a field of candidates with more political experience.

These races went to runoffs because no single candidate took at least 50% of the vote on May 3, while all of the other council districts elected winners outright in the first round of voting.

All San Antonio voters are eligible to participate in the runoff election, even if they didn’t cast a ballot in the first round.

Only about 102,000 votes — roughly 12% of San Antonio’s 840,000 registered voters — participated in the May 3 election. 

Turnout for the runoff was already near that number at the conclusion of early voting, with election day ballots still to come.

San Antonio mayor

The race to become San Antonio’s next mayor is headed for a partisan showdown between one candidate loved by national Democratic Party leaders and another who has close ties to the Republicans who control every lever of power in Texas state government.

Former Air Force Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones and former Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos advanced from a field of 27 candidates, taking 27.2% and 16.6% of the vote, respectively. 

Jones has ties to major Democratic donors and lawmakers from two high-profile congressional races she narrowly lost. Many of those allies returned to help her in the mayoral race.

Pablos, who was appointed to his secretary of state role by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott, had help in the race from a PAC run by the governor’s former political director. 

City Council District 1

Councilwoman Sukh Kaur (D1), whose first reelection quickly became one of the ugliest races of this election cycle, will face off against former Greater Harmony Hills Neighborhood Association president Patty Gibbons.

Kaur took 48.91% of the vote in a 10-way race, falling just short of the majority support needed to win outright.

Her closest challenger, Gibbons, is a former District 9 resident who went to tremendous lengths to keep the city from drawing her Northside-Greater Harmony Hills neighborhood into D1 — one of the city’s more progressive downtown council districts — during the 2022 redistricting process.

Gibbons, who previously ran for City Council in District 9, advanced to the runoff with 17.8% of the vote.

City Council District 6

In the race to represent the city’s fast-growing West Side, two young progressives emerged from a race full of candidates with more political experience. In an usually close race, the frontrunners were separated by just 28 votes.

Kelly Ann Gonzalez is a 34-year-old labor organizer who worked closely with outgoing Councilwoman Melissa Cabello Havrda last year to amend the City Charter so that city employees could participate in local elections by endorsing, volunteering and otherwise electioneering.

She owns a screen printing company, has been a Democratic precinct chair and completed a leadership program for progressive candidates.

Ric Galvan is a 24-year-old projects manager in the District 5 office, as well as a progressive political organizer whose council campaign has been endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America. He’s also a neighborhood association president in Pipers Meadow.

Gonzalez secured 19.7% and Galvan secured 19.37% of the district’s 8,411 votes. 

City Council District 8

The race to replace District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez is down to a runoff between a former chief of staff to Mayor Ron Nirenberg and a conservative attorney who served on the city’s Ethics Review Board. 

District 8 encompasses the city’s far Northwest side — some of San Antonio’s wealthiest enclaves — and six candidates faced off in an expensive, accusation-filled race.

On election night, Ivalis Meza Gonzalez, the Nirenberg chief, took 40.33% of the vote. She ran for Bexar County Judge as a Democrat in 2022. 

Paula McGee, the attorney, took 22.22%. 

City Council District 9

A rare opening in San Antonio’s far Northside District 9 — one of the city’s reddest council districts — will come down to a fight between Democrats who’ve had an ally in the seat for eight years and conservatives who want to flip it.

The top two finishers have each run for partisan offices in the past and finished just 400 votes apart in the first round.

Misty Spears, a constituent services director for Republican Bexar County Commissioner Grant Moody (Pct. 3), had the backing of the police and fire unions and was the first-place finisher with 38.01% of the vote. 

She ran for county clerk as a Republican in 2022.

Her June 7 runoff opponent, Angi Taylor Aramburu, has a background as an arts management consultant and ran for Texas House District 122 as a Democrat in 2022. 

Aramburu was endorsed by the term-limited incumbent, Councilman John Courage, and took 35.57% of the vote.