In an election that featured a dismally low turnout — less than 5 percent of Kyle’s registered voters — challenger Daniela C. Parsley forced incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Rick Koch into a Dec. 7 runoff Tuesday night in the race for City Council District 5.
Koch finished with 99 more votes than Parsley in an election in which only 1,302 persons voted. That’s 4.98 percent of the registered voters in Kyle and only 8.4 percent of the total number of voters who cast ballots in last year’s city council election.
The final tally showed Koch leading with 463 votes, or 35.56 percent of the total votes cast. Parsley had 364 votes, or 27.96 percent. Leah Kaufman finished third with 290 votes (22.27 percent) and Donny Willis was fourth in the four-candidate race with 185 votes (14.21 percent).
Last year, which admittedly featured a presidential race at the top of the ballot, saw 15,473 votes cast ballots in a city-wide council race.
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