Overview

• Ortiz Jones secured 52% of early votes on June 8 to defeat Republican Rolando Pablos in the runoff
• The officially nonpartisan contest played out along partisan lines in a city that backed Democrat Kamala Harris by nearly 58% in last year’s presidential election
• The Texas Economic Fund and San Antonio’s police union spent over $950,000 combined supporting Pablos’s campaign
• A former Air Force undersecretary in the Biden administration, Ortiz Jones will be San Antonio’s third female mayor
• Voters approved extending the mayor’s term from two to four years in November, making this the first four-year mayoral tenure