2011 Dallas mayoral election

2011 Dallas mayoral election
	May 14, 2011
Mayor before election; Dwaine Caraway;	Elected Mayor ; Mike Rawlings;

The 2011 Dallas mayoral election took place on May 14, 2011, to elect the successor to incumbent Mayor Tom Leppert. Leppert decided not to run for a second term, deciding to instead run for United States Senate in 2012. The race is officially nonpartisan. After no candidate received a majority of the votes, the top two candidates – Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle – faced each other in a runoff election on June 18, 2011 in which Rawlings prevailed.

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