Jones, who served in the Biden administration, defeated Rolando Pablos, a former Texas secretary of state, in a high-profile, bitterly partisan contest.

The highly contested mayoral race in San Antonio narrowed from 27 candidates to a pair of runoff candidates. Gina Ortiz Jones leads the mayoral race after early voting totals were tallied with 52 percent of the vote to Rolando Pablos' 48 percent.

Early voting numbers in Saturday night's mayoral runoff race showed Gina Ortiz Jones leading over Rolando Pablos. By 7 p.m., the early vote tally was 53,645 for Jones and 48,863 for Pablos.