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Tovo Leads by 10

Randi Shade supporters at El Arroyo Restaurant in West Austin Saturday night
Photo by Mose Buchele for KUT News
Randi Shade supporters at El Arroyo Restaurant in West Austin Saturday night

Kathie Tovo maintains her 10-point lead over Randi Shade in the latest runoff election results.

In the second batch of results, Tovo still has a 55-45% lead over the incumbent in the race for Place Three on the Austin City Council. 13,648 votes have been counted for Tovo so far, with Shade getting 11,183 votes.

The winner will get a three-year term on the council that begins June 28.

Click on the audio player to hear reaction from Council Member Randi Shade to the early results.

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.