3 incumbent El Paso City Council candidates face runoff elections

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Three incumbent candidates for El Paso City Council are facing runoff elections after Tuesday's election results.

Incumbent District 8 Representative Chris Canales led 34% of the vote with 5,715 votes. He'll face Matthew Guzman, who reached 25% of the vote, in a runoff.

Incumbent District 6 Rep. Art Fierro won 34% of the vote. Fierro will face candidate Jesse Moreno. Moreno won 27% of the vote, with 5,681 votes.

In District 1, incumbent Rep. Alejandra Chavez won 47% of the vote with 12,053 votes. She'll face Sam Armjio in a runoff election. Armijo won 20% of the vote.

Armijo denied a request for an interview, but he sent ABC-7 the following statement:

First, I want to acknowledge the challengers in the race for District 1 Representative and their supporters. They were professional, worked hard and presented their views and plans to solve El Paso’s many serious problems. I respect and admire Matthew Kozik’s and Daniela Garcia’s courage to take on the El Paso political machine and wish them well. We all opposed the city council’s policy of raising El Paso’s already crushing property taxes at every opportunity, while ignoring the conditions of our streets, and the chronic flooding of our neighborhoods . The voters have spoken, and I will now focus on winning the race for District 1 Representative in the upcoming runoff.

ABC-7 has reached out to all city council runoff candidates for interviews.