Llanes Pulido's concession comes a day after she requested a partial ballot recount in the five-way race. The city clerk said the petition had defects.

More than two weeks after election night, the runner up in the Austin mayoral race, Carmen Llanes Pulido, conceded to Mayor Kirk Watson Friday.

Llanes Pulido, who came in second to incumbent Mayor Kirk Watson, is seeking a recount after falling short of the threshold for a runoff election by just 14 votes.

Gonzalez said she didn’t know what the defects were and asked the American-Statesman to file an open records request for a letter to Llanes Pulido from City Clerk Myrna Rios’ office explaining her reasoning.

Carmen Llanes Pulido officially concedes the mayoral race to Kirk Watson, one day after filing a petition requesting a recount.Pulido was asking for a recount i

Carmen Llanes Pulido requested a recount in the Austin mayoral race, trailing Mayor Kirk Watson by a thin margin.

Carmen Llanes-Pulido, the runner-up for mayor of Austin, conceded one day after calling for a recount. For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family. The former talk show host has been living a quiet life in the English countryside with wife Portia de Rossi

Llanes Pulido, who came in second to incumbent Mayor Kirk Watson, sought a recount after falling short of the threshold for a runoff election by just 14 votes.

The runner-up in the race for Austin City Mayor, Carmen Llanes-Pulido, filed a request for a recount on Thursday. However, the request was denied.

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie ran as the "non-politician" who could hit reset at San Francisco City Hall. But even as a political newcomer, Lurie, scion of one of the city's elite old-money families, is far from an outsider.