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Editor's Note: This story has been updated at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 4, with a sidebar with the CFBISD final unofficial results. Farmers Branch City Council candidates' results remained as reported here.
Unofficial results are in from Dallas County for the Farmers Branch City Council election and from Dallas and Denton counties for the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD) Board of Trustees election.
Incumbent Mayor Pro Tem Omar Roman was re-elected for Farmers Branch City Council District 1, and Elizabeth Villafranca was elected for Farmers Branch City Council District 4, according to the unofficial results tabulated by the Dallas County Elections Department.
As of the 11 p.m. Unofficial Results Report, out of 366 votes cast in District 1, Roman received 232 votes, or 63 percent, while challenger Isabel Romero received 134 votes.
In District 4, Villafranca received 495 votes, or 56 percent, to Deborah Bowe’s 383 votes, also according to the 11 p.m. Unoffical Results Report. Incumbent City Councilmember Richard Jackson did not run for re-election.
For CFBISD, Farmers Branch resident Ileana L. Garza-Rojas was re-elected as a school board trustee in a landslide. Garza-Rojas won one of three seats open on the CFBISD board with at least 4,715 votes between Dallas and Denton counties while incumbent Kim Brady won the second seat with 3,076 votes. Newcomer Paul Gilmore won the third seat with 2,402 votes between the two counties. Garza-Rojas was the only Farmers Branch resident candidate to run for a position on the CFBISD Board of Trustees.
Unofficial results from Dallas County show a 6.81-percent voter turnout. Dallas had 1,411,011 registered voters for this election. There were 96,070 votes cast.
At 11 p.m., 211 of Dallas Couny's 422 precincts had reported election results, including all four Election Day Voting Centers in Farmers Branch.
All 232 of Denton County's 232 precints had reported electin results by 9:50 p.m.
Election results remain unofficial until the votes are canvassed. The “canvass,” or official calculation of the votes cast in an election, will be Tuesday, May 6, through Wednesday, May 14, according to the Texas Secretary of State Elections Division. https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/canvassing-and-post-election-activities.pdf
Unofficial totals for early voting show that 1,361 people voted at Farmers Branch Manske Library April 22-29. In all of Dallas County, 68,827 participated in in-person early voting. For comparison, the Addison Athletic Club had 822 voters, Coppell Town Center had 2,888 voters, and Josey Ranch Lake Library in Carrollton had 804 voters. Dallas College Brookhaven Campus was not a voting location for early voting or Election Day.
Fretz Park Library, 6990 Hillcrest Rd., at Beltline and Hillcrest roads in North Dallas, had 3,944 early voters, the busiest early voting location in the county.
There were 1,024 mail-in ballots returned in Dallas County.
