Election results: 2020 Tarrant County municipal, school board runoff races
Keller, Mansfield and White Settlement voters are deciding races for mayor Tuesday after election day results forced runoffs in those cities.
Armin Mizani defeated Tag Green with 59% of the vote to 41% in Keller. Mizani won 46% of the vote in the Nov. 13 election while Green received 34%.
Mizani, a 33-year-old attorney, and Green, a 61-year-old real estate broker, are both former city council members.
Mizani, who served on the council from 2014 to 2018, said the police department is understaffed and officers need salaries that are competitive with other cities.
Green, who spent three and a half years on the council, said he was running because he felt God was calling him to do so.
In Mansfield, Michael Evans won the race for mayor with 52.7% to Brent Newsom’s 47.3%.
Evans, a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church, the oldest African American church in Tarrant County, received 35%. Newsom, a banker who serves on the Mansfield City Council, found support from 34% of voters on Nov. 13.
Evans will take the seat held by David Cook, who won his Nov. 13 race for state representative for District 96.
Tamara Bounds also won the runoff for city council place 2, currently held by Newsom.
Newsom and Evans advanced to the runoff after facing off with Terry Moore, a city councilman and medical equipment salesman, and George Fassett, an advocate for property tax reduction in the city.
White Settlement incumbent Ronald White won reelection with 54% of the vote, beating out challenger Jerry Burns who received 46%.
Results on other races across Tarrant County, including school board and city council runoffs, can be found here.
This story was originally published December 8, 2020 at 7:05 PM.