Runoff Election Updates and Other News for March 4

HD125 special: Early voting began today (Monday) for the special runoff election between Fred Rangel and former San Antonio council member Ray Lopez. A total of 845 people voted in person on the first day. It took four days  to reach this total for last month’s...

Bad Data in Voter Probe and Other News for January 31

Days after announcing up to 95K registered voters might be non-citizens, the Secretary of State’s office has been telling counties that the lists contain numerous errors, potentially amounting to tens of thousands of voters. Erroneously included were voters who...

Key Local Runoff Election Results

Abilene: Challenger Jack Rentz defeated incumbent council member Bruce Kreitler, 55%-45%. Rentz received nearly 1K more votes today than in the May election, while Kreitler received about 400 more votes. The third-place finisher in the May election endorsed Rentz....

Local Runoff Elections Claim Two Incumbents

A pair of Galveston city council members were defeated as several local jurisdictions held runoff elections today to settle races left unresolved after the May 7 uniform election. Notable runoff election results from tonight include: Dallas ISD Trustee D2 – Dustin...

Local Runoff Elections on Horizon

Local runoff elections are typically held in June for municipal, school district, higher education district or other special district races not decided during the May 7 uniform election. Jurisdictions have flexibility for scheduling these elections. Today, Lubbock ISD...