CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Paulette Guajardo held off a challenge from local roofer John Wright to keep her seat as Corpus Christi mayor.
Guajardo led handily with 49,976 votes to Wright's 18,437 with 51 of 65 precincts reporting Tuesday night.
Guajardo, a small business owner, was first elected mayor of her hometown in 2022, when she defeated then-incumbent Joe McComb.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she established a program called Saving Our Seniors, which was the model for a program that was implemented statewide to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to homebound people.
Before she was elected mayor, she served as a city councilwoman from 2016-2020.
Wright's website states that he is originally from Illinois, and has lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Dallas, Austin, and now Corpus Christi, where he has experience as a musician, a pedicab driver, a roofer and has certifications for crane operation.