Incumbent Mayor Travis Mitchell won a decisive victory today for a second term, collecting 55.4 percent of the votes cast to defeat challenger Linda Tenorio, who barely finished ahead of Mitchell in the four-candidate contest in last month.
In a runoff in which 14,204 fewer voters cast ballots than in the November election, Mitchell finished with 1,257 votes to 1,012 for Tenorio. In November, Tenorio edged Mitchell by 42 votes, but fell far short of a majority required to win the election.
“As I said after the November election, runoffs are a very different animal,” Mitchell said as he pulled his car into the driveway of his home after spending election night listening to Christmas music at City Square Park. “I was prepared to work as hard as I could to earn a second term.
“I am very honored and thankful for the opportunity to serve the residents of Kyle for three more years. I will not take that responsibility lightly.”
Mitchell said “delivery of the projects we set up in the first term” will be the focus of his second term.
“We have really done a lot of work over the last several years to get our city in a position to grow responsibly,” Mitchell said. “We have a lot of projects that are ready to go and I’m looking forward to helping shepherd those projects forward responsibly and judicially.”
Mitchell specifically cited Heroes Memorial Park near the Performing Arts Center, Central Park and other downtown landscaping, plus the police station and park projects approved by voters in November.
“We’re working on a lot right now,” the mayor said, adding that completing all of them could be a challenging task. “But I feel our council and our staff are up to the challenge.”
Mitchell thanked Tenorio and her supporters “for their continued efforts to participate in city government and I wish them the best of luck in the future.”
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