In the four-way race for Fort Worth City Council’s open District 6 seat, Mia Hall, a Crowley ISD school board member and Fort Worth ISD executive, pulled ahead of opponents but not enough to win without a runoff election.
Hall led with 46.6% of votes. Trailing behind her, Daryl Davis II, the Crowley ISD school board president and executive at UpSpire, had 28.6%.
Because no candidate got more than 50% of the vote total, Hall and Davis will head to a runoff election June 7.
Not far behind Davis was Marshall Hobbs, a veteran and political science professor who raked in endorsements from Republican community leaders.
Hobbs received 21.7% of the vote, and Adrian Smith, a 45-year-old veteran and longtime Como resident, gathered 3% of the vote.
The winner of the runoff will enter their seat as City Hall wrestles with potential budget cuts, Fort Worth’s booming growth, an $800 million bond, a new city manager and massive changes to the EMS system.
In fundraising, Davis and Hall ran neck-and-neck, with Davis raising $26,035 and Hall raising $25,080 between the start of their campaigns and April 24. Hobbs raised a total of $18,990.
Hall poured significantly more into her race than all other candidates, reportedly spending $39,503 on campaign costs like political consulting, advertising and marketing. Davis spent $14,949 over his campaign, and Hobbs spent $8,128, according to campaign finance reports.
District 6 is home to over 94,000 people, most of whom are families, according to the area’s most recent demographic profile, which uses census data ranging from 2019 to 2023. About 54% of homes are owner-occupied rather than rented.
The winner will fill the shoes of Williams, who in 2021 defeated then-incumbent Jungus Jordan, the longest-serving council member at the time. Williams became the first Black person to represent District 6, and has often voted and collaborated with fellow Democrats on council, including Chris Nettles and Elizabeth Beck.
Williams won reelection with 57% of the vote in 2023 after redistricting added Como to the district. The historically Black area accounted for 231 of the district’s 5,069 votes cast for City Council. Williams won 63.3% of Como’s votes, and 57.5% of ballots districtwide.
A candidate must get more than 50% of the vote total to win the election. If no candidate secures a majority, the top two vote-getters will head to a runoff election June 7.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 3. The Fort Worth Report’s Tarrant County Voter Guide, featuring surveys from candidates for City Councils, school boards and other races, is available here.
Who ran to represent District 6?
Daryl Davis II
Key issues: Public safety, lowering fees for residents and developing infrastructure.
Occupation: President of Crowley ISD’s school board, which he’s sat on since 2022. Davis holds a leadership position at UpSpire, a social enterprise focused on removing barriers to employment, and he has been the executive pastor of Inspiring Temple of Praise Church since 2015.
Education: Master’s in educational leadership, bachelor’s in business management.
Davis, a 43-year-old father of two and Fort Worth native, lives near the south border of District 6 in the Summer Creek Ranch neighborhood. His endorsements include incumbent Jared Williams, County Commissioner Roderick Miles Jr. and the Tarrant County Central Labor Council.
In 2019, Davis ran to represent District 6 in City Council, but lost to then-incumbent Jungus Jordan by 19.5 percentage points in a three-candidate race.
Mia Hall
Key issues: Public safety, improving infrastructure and improving city services.
Occupation: Member and previous president of Crowley ISD’s school board, which she’s sat on for 10 years. She works as Fort Worth ISD’s executive director of strategic recruitment and is on the board of United Way of Tarrant County. Hall was on Fort Worth’s zoning commission from 2021-22.
Education: Doctorate in education from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, master’s in education from the University of Texas at Arlington, bachelor’s degree in political science from UT-Austin.
Hall, age 47, is a mother of two and lives in the south end of District 6 in the Stone Meadow development. Her endorsers include County Commissioner Alisa Simmons, former Mayor Betsy Price and City Council member Chris Nettles, according to her campaign website.
In 2024, Hall ran as a Democrat for Precinct 1 County Commissioner but lost in the March primary election.
Marshall Hobbs
Key issues: Tax cuts for elderly and property owners, public safety, discouraging new apartments.
Occupation: Professor of government at Arlington Baptist College and Tarrant County College. Hobbs is a veteran who also worked in law enforcement. Over the past 35 years, he has been a member of various city commissions.
Education: Doctorate in political science, master’s degrees in political science and public administration, bachelor’s in political science and speech communications from UTA.
Hobbs, 60, has two adult children and lives in Como. He has endorsements from Mayor Pro-Tem Gyna Bivens, former Republican County Commissioner candidate Michael Barber, and Mark Fulmer, a conservative public speaker and founder and president of Latter Rain Renewal Ministries.
This is Hobbs’ third bid for election to City Council, having run in 2012 to represent District 8 and in 1991 for the District 2 seat, he said.
Adrian Smith
Key issues: Separating from the current City Council establishment, building avenues for resident input, and addressing declining literacy rates.
Occupation: Veteran, working for the Department of Homeland Security.
Education: Fort Worth ISD graduate.
Smith, 45, is a longtime Como resident. He is a frequent speaker at City Council meetings and a sharp critic of current council members, who he believes have been bought by political action committees, businesses and corporations.
This is Smith’s third bid for election. He ran for mayor in 2023, securing 4.54% of the vote, and in 2021 ran to represent District 3, getting 1.7% of votes.
Drew Shaw is a government accountability reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at [email protected] or @shawlings601.
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