Dallas City Council Election: Zarin Gracey And Joe Tave Are Vying For District 3 Seat on Saturday

There’s one more Dallas City Council seat for voters to decide before a June 19 swearing-in ceremony.

Pastor Zarin Gracey and radio talk show host Joe Tave are vying for the District 3 seat vacated by term-limited District 3 Councilman Casey Thomas. District 3 covers southwest Dallas. 

Stay tuned to CandysDirt.com after the polls close Saturday night for election results and reactions. 

Gracey, a former city plan commissioner and former Dallas Public Facility Corporation board president, got the most votes on Election Day but did not garner more than 50 percent required to win the seat outright. 

First-time candidate Gracey, who worked for the City of Dallas for 15 years, got 1,394 votes (46.22) percent on May 6. 

Tave, who has made five attempts at a council seat since 1999, brought in 777 votes (25.6 percent). 

The difference was split between challengers John Sims (14 percent), Denise Benavides (10.51 percent), and August Doyle (3.45 percent). 

Dallas County election officials said only 8.8 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the May election. 

Mayor Eric Johnson and incumbents in all the other Dallas City Council races returned to the horseshoe, save for the District 10 seat, vacated by term-limited Adam McGough. Kathy Stewart earned almost 68 percent of the vote in a four-person race and will serve District 10 for a two-year term. 

Voters also will decide Saturday a hotly-contested District 2 Dallas ISD board race. Longtime education volunteer Sarah Weinberg and small business owner Jimmy Tran are vying for the seat, vacated by Dustin Marshall, who announced earlier this year he would not seek re-election. 

Tran received 40 percent of the vote last month, and Weinberg brought in 37 percent in a three-person race.