SAN ANTONIO — Voters in San Antonio's City Council runoff elections elected two new council members, ousting one incumbent in the process.
District 1 Runoff Election
Sukh Kaur will become the new councilwoman for District 1 after she topped incumbent Mario Bravo on Saturday night. Kaur won the seat with 59.1% of the vote to Bravo's 40.9%.
Bravo had finished second in the first round of voting on May 6 as he sought reelection to his District 1 seat. In the first round, Kaur had 34% of the vote to Bravo's 26%, with several challengers accounting for the remaining votes.
Bravo's reelection campaign was clouded by incident last fall when he was briefly suspended from council assignments.
Bravo was disciplined by his council colleagues for berating Ana Sandoval, the District 7 representative with whom he had been in a relationship.
Bravo decided to run for another term, but Sandoval resigned her seat earlier this year after holding it since 2017.
District 1 covers downtown and much of the north side between I-10 and Highway 281, stretching up to Loop 410.
District 7 Runoff Election
Marina Alderete Gavito will be the new councilwoman for District 7 after she held off Dan Rossiter on Saturday night. Alderete Gavito had 62.2% of the vote to Rossiter's 37.8%.
In the first round of balloting on May 6. Alderete Gavito was the leading vote-getter with 43%, while Rossiter held off a close challenge for second at 21%.
They were among five people vying for the District 7 seat in the May 6 balloting, one of two City Council races without an incumbent this year after Sandoval resigned the seat.
District 7 covers a section of the west side stretching from Zarzamora to Loop 1604, including the Woodlawn Lake and Jefferson neighborhoods, along with a portion of the Medical Center.
May 6 Election Results
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and seven City Council members were reelected May 6.
The council members are Jalen McKee-Rodriguez (District 2), Phyllis Viagran (District 3), Adriana Rocha Garcia (District 4), Teri Castillo (District 5), Melissa Cabello Havrda (District 6), Manny Pelaez (District 8) and John Courage (District 9).
In addition, newcomer Marc Whyte was elected in District 10 after incumbent Clayton Perry declined to run.
San Antonio voters also rejected Proposition A on the May 6 ballot. The charter amendment, referred to by supporters as the San Antonio Justice Charter, was an omnibus measure that sought to decriminalize abortion and low-level marijuana possession, ban no-knock warrants and chokeholds by law enforcement, create a “justice director” job at City Hall and require police to issue citations for certain low-level, nonviolent offenses instead of making arrests.