This article will be updated throughout as election results are released by the County’s Elections Department. Last updated at 9:15pm, El Paso time.
The final results show a runoff between Josh Acevedo and Verónica Carbajal.
According to the results of early voting for the District 2 city council seat to replace Alexsandra Annello who resigned the seat to run for Texas State Representative District 77, we predict a runoff between Acevedo and Carbajal.
Turnout for this election has been extremely slow with 1,077 ballots cast during the early voting period. This is less than 3% of the eligible voters. According to reports from several precincts earlier today, it appears that less than 1,000 votes will be cast today if the trend continues. If this is true, about 2,000 ballots would be cast making voter turn out to be less 5%. Based on several factors, we estimate that around 800 ballots will be cast today. We expect results for the ballots cast today to released within a couple of hours. We will update this article with the latest results when they become available.
In May, 9.94% of registered voters in District 2 cast a ballot. This was the election where Proposition K was rejected by an overwhelming majority of voters.
Polls close at 7:00pm and the early voting results will then become available.
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Early Voting
As we reported, voter turnout has been extremely slow this election with 1,077 ballots cast.
According to the data released by the Elections Department, the results show Name ahead of their opponents.
Josh Acevedo: 38%
Verónica Carbajal: 37%
Judy Gutierrez: 20%
Ben Mendoza: 5%
Final Results
The final results show the runoff between Acevedo and Carbajal as predicated by the early voting results.
Josh Acevedo: 36%
Verónica Carbajal: 36% (Carbajal ahead by four votes.)
Judy Gutierrez: 24%
Ben Mendoza: 4%
Voter turn out was 2,171 votes, or 4.55% of registered voters.
Prior Elections
Judy Gutierrez previously ran for the District 2 seat in 2020. During the November 3, 2020 election, Gutierrez received 8,416 votes. Gutierrez was running against Alexsandra Annello who received 6,618 votes and another candidate who received 2,844 ballots. Verónica Carbajal was also on the ballot running for mayor. In that contest, Carbajal received 47,299 citywide votes. Carbajal did not make the mayoral runoff and Gutierrez was forced into a runoff against Annello.
The runoff election was held on December 12, 2020. In that election, Gutierrez lost to Annello by 216 votes, 2,918 to 2,712 votes. Over 5,000 votes were cast in that runoff.
Look for our election analysis next week.
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