2011 Dallas mayoral election|
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| Nominee | Mike Rawlings | David Kunkle | Ron Natinsky |  
| First round | 28,424 40.86%
 | 22,229 31.96%
 | 17,430 25.06%
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| Runoff | 31,088 55.80%
 | 24,623 44.20%
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The 2011 Dallas mayoral election took place on May 14, 2011, to elect the successor to incumbent Mayor Tom Leppert. Leppert decided not to run for a second term, deciding to instead run for United States Senate in 2012. The race is officially nonpartisan. After no candidate received a majority of the votes, the top two candidates – Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle – faced each other in a runoff election on June 18, 2011 in which Rawlings prevailed.