Houston, Texas
(AHN) – Former Houston city controller Annise Parker earned 53.6 percent of a runoff election vote Saturday, becoming the city’s first openly gay mayor.
Parker beat former city attorney Gene Locke, after neither candidate earned the 50 percent of the votes needed to win the general election on Nov. 3.
Parker, 53, has been with her partner for 19 years, and the couple have two adopted children, CNN reported.
Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States and the largest ever to elect an openly gay mayor.
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