Lubbock elections: Results for Lubbock mayor, Prop A, other local races

Polls closed at 7 p.m. Saturday's local municipal and school board elections, featuring a Lubbock mayoral race, a special initiative to decriminalize marijuana in Lubbock, a contested city council seat, and numerous municipal and school board seats in Lubbock communities across the South Plains.

Below are some updates from Saturday evening.

Final election day results show Proposition A rejected, McBrayer, Massengale to runoff | 10:30 p.m.

Lubbock voters resoundingly rejected Proposition A to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, but will have to come back to ballot box in June for a mayoral runoff between Mark McBrayer and Steve Massengale and a District 2 City Council runoff between Gordon Harris and Anah Menjares.

With election day results in, Proposition A failed with 64.62% of the 31,775 votes cast in opposition to the measure.

Mark McBrayer received 37.36% of the 30,878 votes cast for mayor, with Steve Massengale receiving 28.24% in the six-person race. Because no candidate received a majority of the votes, McBrayer and Massengale will head to a runoff.

In the three-person District 2 council race, Gordon Harris received 43.14% of the 2,749 votes cast, with Anah Menjares coming in second with 39.54% and Michael Lestus Mitchell receiving 17.32%. That race will also go to a runoff between Harris and Menjares.

— Adam D. Young

District 2 council race could head to runoff | 9:25 p.m.

Gordon Harris said he's optimistic about his chances in a potential runoff for the District 2 council seat, although he was still holding out hope to win the race out right. Harris was leading the three-person race with 43.7 percent of the vote - well shy of the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff. Anah Menjares received 38 percent of the early votes cast, with election day totals still not released.

"I think people are tired of the same old, same old. And they also want someone who they know, and I'm a name people know. I've been here for more than five decades and people know me," Harris said.

— Adam D. Young

Early voting results show McBrayer, Massengale lead for mayor; Prop A rejected | 7:45 p.m.

Mark McBrayer jumped to an early lead in the six-person race for Lubbock mayor, carrying about 38.3% of the early voting total compared to about 29.4% for Steve Massengale and 19% for Adam Hernandez. If no candidate receives at least 50% plus one vote, the mayoral race will head to a runoff. The other candidates in the race received, in early voting: 6.8% for Stephen J. Sanders, 5.6% for Antonio "Tony" Renteria and 1% for Kolton Bacon.

Proposition A to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana appeared to be rejected by voters, with early voting numbers showing 66.1% were against while 33.9% were for.

For the District 2 City Council seat, Gordon Harris had 43.7% of the vote compared to 38% for Anah Menjares and 18.3% for Michael Lestus Mitchell, with early voting numbers in.

— Adam D. Young

Voter turnout up on Election Day 2024 | 7:25 p.m.

Nearly 15,000 more people cast a May ballot in Lubbock County this election cycle compared to 2022, according to early voting and Election Day voter turnout figures from the county elections office.

On Election Day, 9,113 voters cast a ballot in the county. Combined, 26,103 people voted early over nine days. In total, 35,216 people headed to the polls in Lubbock County for the May 4 municipal and school elections — the largest turnout in a May mayor-city council election since at least 2006.

In 2022, 21,893 people voted in the May local elections.

— Alex Driggars

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Lubbock election results for mayor, Prop A and more