{"id":335632,"date":"2026-06-14T03:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:52:11","slug":"terry-lynne-leads-jaime-rivas-by-25-votes-in-razor-thin-farmers-branch-mayoral-runoff-unofficial-returns-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335632\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Lynne leads Jaime Rivas by 25 votes in razor\u2011thin Farmers Branch mayoral runoff, unofficial returns show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Mayor Terry Lynne is edging Jaime Rivas by 25 votes in Saturday&#8217;s Farmers Branch mayoral runoff, according to complete but unofficial returns.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne has 2,116 votes, or 50.32%, while Rivas has 2,091 votes, or 49.7%, with all precincts reporting.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas has asked election officials whether the narrow margin will automatically trigger a recount.<\/p>\n<p>Neither candidate cleared 50% in the May 2 general election, forcing the runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne led that race with 49.1% (1,797 votes), followed by Rivas at 41.5% (1,519 votes) and Rinkesh Desai at 9%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is the second straight mayoral contest between Lynne and Rivas. Lynne won their 2023 matchup 2,106 to 1,738.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incumbent Mayor Terry Lynne is edging Jaime Rivas by 25 votes in Saturday&#8217;s Farmers Branch mayoral runoff, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,430,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-335632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-election","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}