Deborah Peoples, left, and Mattie Parker Deborah Peoples and Mattie Parker will face each other in a runoff to determine the next mayor of Fort Worth after Saturday’s municipal elections there.
They were the leaders in a field of 10 candidates running to replace incumbent Mayor Betsy Price, who chose not to run for a sixth term.
Peoples, a former vice president with AT&T, was in the lead with 33.6 percent of the vote as of Saturday night. Parker, a former chief of staff for Price, was second with 30.82 percent.
Council member Brian Byrd was a very distance third with 14.75 percent, and Ann Zadeh, the District 9 council member who has been one of the LGBTQ community’s staunchest allies on the council, 8.64 percent.