Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Tovo Lead Widens

Council Member Randi Shade greets supporters at a West Austin restaurant Saturday night. Latest results put her 11 percent behind challenger Kathie Tovo in the council runoff.
Photo by Mose Buchele for KUT News
Council Member Randi Shade greets supporters at a West Austin restaurant Saturday night. Latest results put her 11 percent behind challenger Kathie Tovo in the council runoff.

With 30 percent of Election Day ballots counted, challenger Kathie Tovo has widened her lead over incumbent Randi Shade in the Place Three City Council runoff.

Tovo has 16,612 votes, between early voting and today's balloting, for 56% of the votes. Shade has 13,021 votes, giving her 44%.

The winner will be sworn in for a three-year term on June 28.

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.