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Jalen McKee-Rodriguez*
Carla-Joy Sisco
Stephanie E. Powell
Kizzie D. Thomas
Rose Requenez Hill
Sean Hanlin
Sonya Moore
Bryant Livingston
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UPDATE AT 11 P.M.:
Incumbent Jalen McKee-Rodriguez comfortably retained his seat as District 2 councilman for a third term during the May 3 election.
With 100% of precincts reporting, McKee-Rodriguez took home 61.37% of the vote. The second-place contender, Carla-Joy Sisco, ended the night with 9.14% of the vote.
Nearly 3,400 votes separated the two contenders, according to election numbers from Bexar County.
Bexar County had a 7.81% voter turnout in the May 3 election, according to the Bexar County Elections Department. Out of 1,257,459 registered voters in Bexar County, 20,201 voted on Election Day and 74,238 cast a ballot during early voting. Another 3,751 were absentee ballots.
Compared to the last city election in 2023, Bexar County saw a 15.34% voter turnout.
The election is nonpartisan, meaning candidates are not affiliated with political parties.
BACKGROUND
In 2021, McKee-Rodriguez — the first openly gay man elected to the council in San Antonio’s history — was first elected to the council after earning 63% of the vote in a runoff election against Jada Andrews-Sullivan. McKee-Rodriguez was a former member of Andrews-Sullivan’s staff.
With four years served as councilman, if re-elected under the city’s new charter amendment, McKee-Rodriguez would serve a four-year term, ending in 2029. Despite the increase from two-year to four-year terms, the longest a councilperson or mayor can serve in either role remains eight years.
Seven candidates are poised to challenge McKee-Rodriguez: Sean Hanlin, Rose Requenez Hill, Bryant Livingston, Sonya Moore, Stephanie E. Powell, Carla-Joy Sisco and Kizzie D. Thomas.
Requenez Hill is the lone challenger who previously ran for the City Council District 2 seat. In 2023, she finished third with 7.6% of the vote behind McKee-Rodriguez (56%) and Denise Gutierrez (14.7%).
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