Dallas City Council member Omar Narvaez is running for a third term in District 6 Two ballot initiatives and fourteen council seats were on the ballot in today’s Dallas municipal election.
Runoffs are expected in a number of the races because of the large number of candidates that ran. Every incumbent had a challenger.
Of particular interest in the LGBTQ community is District 13. Leland Burk, who is gay, is running against Gay Donnell Willis who runs the Turtle Creek Park Conservancy.
Two gay city councilmen are up for re-election — Chad West in District 1 is running for a second term and Omar Narvaez in District 6 is running for his third.