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2024 Austin elections
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Election dates
Filing deadline: August 19, 2024
Primary election: December 14
General election: November 5, 2024
Election stats
Offices up: Mayor and city council
Total seats up: 6 (click here for mayoral elections)
Election type: Nonpartisan
Other municipal elections
U.S. municipal elections, 2024

The city of Austin, Texas, held general elections for mayor and city council on November 5, 2024. A general runoff election was scheduled for December 14, 2024. The filing deadline for this election was August 19, 2024.

Click here to learn more about the city's mayoral election.


Elections

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Candidates and results

City council

General runoff election

Austin City Council general runoff election, 2024

  • Incumbents are marked with an (i) after their name.
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Office Candidates
District 7

Gary Bledsoe  Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngMike Siegel  Candidate Connection

General election

Austin City Council general election, 2024

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Office Candidates
District 2

Green check mark transparent.pngVanessa Fuentes (i)
Robert Reynolds 
District 4

Green check mark transparent.pngJose Vela (i)
Monica Guzman  Candidate Connection
Louis Herrin III 
Jim Rabuck 
Eduardo Romero 
District 6

Mackenzie Kelly (i) Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngKrista Laine  Candidate Connection
District 7

Edwin Bautista  Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngGary Bledsoe  Candidate Connection
Pierre Nguyen  Candidate Connection
Adam Powell  Candidate Connection
Todd Shaw  Candidate Connection
Green check mark transparent.pngMike Siegel  Candidate Connection

Did not make the ballot:
Daniel Dominguez 
District 10

Green check mark transparent.pngMarc Duchen  Candidate Connection
Ashika Ganguly  Candidate Connection

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About the city

See also: Austin, Texas

Austin is the state capital of Texas. It is located in Travis County. As of 2020, its population was 961,855.

City government

See also: Council-manager government

Since 1924, the city of Austin has utilized a council-manager system.[1] In this form of municipal government, an elected city council—which includes the mayor and serves as the city's primary legislative body—appoints a chief executive called a city manager to oversee day-to-day municipal operations and implement the council's policy and legislative initiatives.[2][3]

Demographics

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Demographic Data for Austin, Texas
Austin Texas
Population 961,855 29,145,505
Land area (sq mi) 320 261,267
Race and ethnicity**
White 69.4% 69.2%
Black/African American 7.8% 12.1%
Asian 7.7% 4.9%
Native American 0.7% 0.5%
Pacific Islander 0.1% 0.1%
Other (single race) 7.8% 6.2%
Multiple 6.5% 7%
Hispanic/Latino 33.3% 39.4%
Education
High school graduation rate 90.3% 84.4%
College graduation rate 53.4% 30.7%
Income
Median household income $75,752 $63,826
Persons below poverty level 12.5% 14.2%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.


See also

Austin, Texas Texas Municipal government Other local coverage
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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named gov
  2. ↑ Office of the City Manager, "About," accessed August 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Austin City Charter V 1-3, accessed August 26, 2014
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