IT'S PARKER AND LOCKE!

NOW THEY CAN GO HEAD TO HEAD!

Houston won't know who it's new mayor will be until next month.

City controller Annise Parker and former city attorney Gene Locke are headed to a runoff to become mayor of America's fourth-biggest city.

Parker collected nearly 31 percent of the vote Tuesday. Locke, with 25 percent, topped architect and urban planner Peter Brown, who had nearly 23 percent.

The candidates were vying to succeed Bill White, who is term-limited after six years in office.

A runoff is needed because no one received 50 percent of the vote. An unofficial date has been scheduled for Dec. 12.

Parker, 52, would be the first openly gay woman to become mayor of a major U.S. city, while Locke, 61, would be the city's second black mayor.

From FOX 26 News!