The long march toward single-member City Council districts – for which the first candidate filed in October, 2013 – is finally over: 15% of registered Austin voters have selected Mayor Steve Adler and nine spanking new Council members (and one hold-over, District 9’s Kathie Tovo). Since it’s the Season for Giving, we’ll give some of the 85% of you a pass, if you really were too busy to get to the polls during two weeks of early voting and 12 hours of the final event.

That said – the Chronicle news staff traveled all over town Tuesday night (not by public transit, alas) to bring voters and non-voters the skinny on the candidates, the results, and the watch parties. Some of that we posted online at Newsdesk daily, and the rest of it we offer here. Your choices or not – it’s now your City Council.

Run-Off Recap

A version of this article appeared in print on Dec 19, 2014 with the headline: Run-Off Recap

This article appears in December 19 • 2014.

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Contributing writer and former news editor Michael King has reported on city and state politics for the Chronicle since 2000. He was educated at Indiana University and Yale, and from 1977 to 1985 taught at UT-Austin. He has been the editor of the Houston Press and The Texas Observer, and has reported and written widely on education, politics, and cultural subjects.