The race for Miami Mayor isn’t over.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins and former City Manager Emilio González are heading to a Dec. 9 runoff. They outpaced 11 other candidates, but no one running to succeed term-limited Mayor Francis Suarez received more than 50% of the vote to win outright.

Higgins and González took 36% and 19.5% of the vote, respectively, with 134 of 139 precincts reporting Tuesday.

For the other candidates — who include Miami Commissioner and former Mayor Joe Carollo , former Miami Commissioner Alex Díaz de la Portilla and Ken Russell , and former Miami-Dade Commissioner and ex-Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez , the sitting Mayor’s father — it’s the end of the road.

Of 174,462 registered voters in Miami, fewer than 22% cast ballots by the time pol

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