2024 Austin municipal elections

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2024 Austin municipal elections
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The 2024 Austin, Texas municipal elections will take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Five city council seats (District 2, District 4, District 6, District 7, and District 10) and the mayor have regular elections. All positions are nominally non-partisan, though most candidates choose to affiliate with a party given Austin's strong Democratic lean.

Contents

Candidates

Mayor

Incumbent Mayor Kirk Watson is running for re-election.

Declared

Declined

City Council, District 2

Incumbent Vanessa Fuentes is running for a second term. As of March 2024, she has not drawn an opponent. [6]

Declared

City Council, District 4

Incumbent Jose "Chito" Vela is running for a second term. As of March 2024, he has not drawn an opponent.

Declared

  • Jose "Chito" Vela (incumbent) (party affiliation: Democratic) [1]
  • Monica Guzman (party affiliation: Democratic) [9]
  • James Rabuck
  • Eduardo Romero
  • Louis Herrin

City Council, District 6

Incumbent Mackenzie Kelly is running for a second term. As the lone Republican on council, she is widely expected to face a competitive race in a district that voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a margin of 33.3% in the 2020 Presidential election.

Declared

Declined

  • Jimmy Flannigan, former District 6 councilor (2017–2021) (party affiliation: Democratic)
  • Don Zimmerman, former District 6 councilor (2015–2017) (running for Travis County Appraisal District Board) [11] (party affiliation: Republican)
Mackenzie Kelly
Organizations

Notable Individuals

Krista Laine
State officials

Local officials

City Council, District 7

Incumbent Leslie Pool is ineligible for a third term, as she did not choose to collect the petition signatures required to bypass Austin's term limits.

Declared

Declined

  • Leslie Pool, incumbent councilor for District 7 (party affiliation: Democratic)
Mike Siegel
Federal officials

State officials

Local officials

Notable individuals

Organizations

Adam Powell
Local officials
Edwin Bautista
Organizations
  • Run For Something

City Council, District 10

Incumbent Alison Alter is ineligible for a third term, as she did not choose to collect the petition signatures required to bypass Austin's term limits.

Declared

Withdrawn

  • Idona Griffith, District 10 Human Rights Commissioner (endorsed Duchen)

Declined

  • Alison Alter, incumbent councilor for District 10 (party affiliation: Democratic)
  • Jennifer Virden, 2020 candidate for District 10 and 2022 candidate for Mayor of Austin (party affiliation: Republican)
Ashika Ganguly
State officials
  • Garry Mauro, former Texas Land Commissioner
  • Sheryl Cole, state Representative from the 46th district
  • James Talarico, state Representative from the 50th district
  • John Bucy III, state Representative from the 136th district
  • Wendy Davis, former state Senator from the 10th district and 2014 Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas
  • Eddie Rodriguez, former state Representative from the 51st district

Local officials

Notable individuals

Marc Duchen
Notable individuals
  • Jennifer Mushtaler, District 6 Planning Commissioner
  • Fred Lewis, President, Community Not Commodity

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