Babick wins reelection as Carrollton voters approve most bond measures
Steve Babick kept the mayor’s office, and Carrollton voters backed four of five bond measures that could steer road, park and public safety spending.
Steve Babick secured another term as Carrollton mayor with 93.45% of the vote, and voters also approved four of five bond propositions that could move $235 million toward streets, public safety facilities, parks, municipal court space and a new library direction.
Babick finished with 6,423 votes, while challenger Zul Mohamed received 450, or 6.55%. In the council races, Jason Carpenter won Place 2 without opposition with 5,560 votes, and Daisy Palomo also ran unopposed in Place 6 with 5,605 votes. Place 4 was the only contested council seat on the ballot, and Lisa Sutter won with 54.23% of the vote, or 3,831 votes. Mike Song followed with 39.98%, or 2,824 votes, and Thomas Chellethe received 5.79%, or 409 votes.
The bond package was the bigger policy test for City Hall. Carrollton asked voters to weigh five propositions tied to street and traffic improvements, public safety facilities, parks and recreation facilities, municipal court facilities and library facilities. Propositions A, B, C and E passed, while Proposition D failed, a split result that still leaves the city positioned to advance most of the spending plan it put before voters.
All of the results remain unofficial until the Carrollton City Council canvasses them at its May 12 meeting, but the direction of the election is already clear. The city closed voter registration on April 2 for the May 2 general election and special bond election, which filled the expired terms of the mayor and at-large Places 2, 4 and 6.
The outcome gives Babick and the incoming council a clearer mandate as Carrollton keeps working through its capital plan. City officials have said the city’s general obligation bonds are rated AAA by Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, and the FY 2026 budget lowered the property tax rate to $0.537500 per $100 of assessed value, the lowest rate since 1989. That financial backdrop matters as the city moves ahead with projects already on the ground, including a new Fire Station 6, for which Carrollton broke ground in April.
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