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Tovo Beats Shade

Kathie Tovo unseated incumbent Randi Shade in Saturday's Austin City Council runoff election
Photo by Erika Aguilar for KUT News
Kathie Tovo unseated incumbent Randi Shade in Saturday's Austin City Council runoff election

Kathie Tovo has been elected to the Austin City Council.

Tovo defeated incumbent Randi Shade in today's runoff election, 56-44%. Turnout between early voting and Election Day was 9.5%, according to the Travis County Clerk's office.

The race became contentious, with each side trading barbs about public safety funding, city support for Formula One racing and election law violations 33 days since the city general election.

Tovo will be sworn in on June 28, alongside reelected Council Members Laura Morrison and Chris Riley.

Ian Crawford joined KUT as News Editor in 2008, after spending over four years as a reporter/anchor at KLBJ Radio in Austin. He began his broadcasting career while still in high school in Southern Oregon. During high school and college at the University of Oregon, he worked at times as a reporter, news anchor, sports play-by-play reporter, music host and commercial producer before moving to Texas in 2003.