Today is Election Day for Tampas District 5 special runoff election and the last chance to vote for who will fill the District 5 city council seat left vacant following Gwen Hendersons unexpected death back in June.

On Election Day, Tuesday, Oct. 28, voters will choose between two finalists, Naya Young and Thomas Scott, who received the two most votes from the initial special election.

Back in the initial September special election, 14 candidates ran for the seat, but in the City of Tampa municipal elections, a candidate must receive more than 50 percent of the vote, or the race will proceed to a runoff election. In that race, Scott received 27% of the vote and Young received around 12%.

Early voting for this election ran from Oct. 23 to Oct. 26, and Tampa Bay 28 spoke with both candida

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