Tyrone Garner elected mayor in Kansas City, Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A new mayor will take over in Kansas City, Kansas, after the incumbent lost for the second straight election. Unofficial totals show that Tyrone Garner defeated incumbent David Alvey on Tuesday by just over 300 votes out of 16,494 ballots cast. Garner will become the first Black mayor to oversee the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, since the governments joined together in 1997. Garner is 52 and served on the city’s police department for more than three decades. Alvey had defeated former mayor Mark Holland in 2017.  The Johnson County Election Office reports that longtime Overland Park City Councilman Curt Skoog was elected mayor in that city. Topeka Deputy Mayor Mike Padilla was elected mayor there.