Leaning on her incumbency and gargantuan funding advantage, Miami Commission Chair Christine King easily won re-election to her District 5 seat on Tuesday.

Who joins her in the District 3 seat remains to be seen.

King took 84.5% of the vote to defeat challengers Marion Brown and Frederick Bryant and earn a second and final four-year term at City Hall.

In the District 3 race to replace outgoing, term-limited Commissioner Joe Carollo , two candidates — former City Commissioner Frank Carollo , Joe Carollo’s younger brother, and restaurant manager Rolando Escalona — will square off in a Dec. runoff after neither man received a large enough share of the vote.

Carollo took 38% of the vote, while Escalona took 17%. To win outright, a candidate had to take more than half the vo

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