Jeremiah Harrington defeated Michael Helms by an 8 vote margin in the VISD Board of Trustee Place 7 runoff election that saw 290 total votes cast out of more than 15,000 eligible votes, or less than two percent.
The runoff election was triggered after no candidate received more than 50 percent the total votes cast in the three way race May 6. The top two vote recipients in the regular election,…