Acting Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards lead the field of 16 candidates in the Nov. 4 special election for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, according to a new poll.
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State Rep. Jolanda Jones is running a distant third place behind Acting Harris County Attorney Menefee and former Houston City Council member Edwards, according to the latest survey from the University of Houston’s Hobby School of Public Affairs.
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A favorable coin toss Monday gave Bianca Valerio another term on the Pasadena City Council. She and challenger Bruce Leamon tied with 272 votes apiece in a June 7 runoff election.
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Having exhausted all other options, the City of Pasadena will be relying on a coin flip next week to determine the winner of a city council election that ended in a tie.
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Bruce Leamon and Bianca Valerio each received 272 votes in the runoff for the District B position on the city council. Using a coin flip is a rare but legal practice in Texas used to determine the outcome of a tied election.
This month, for the first time, voters in Texas’ largest counties had the opportunity to elect board members to help oversee their local property tax appraisals. Voters in Harris County, which is the state’s largest, will weigh in again next month.
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Kathy Blueford-Daniels narrowly won a place on HCAD's board of directors, according to unofficial results from Saturday's election, while races for two other seats remain undecided. For the first time, voters in Texas' largest counties had the opportunity to elect board members to help oversee their local property tax appraisals.
Molly Cook and state Rep. Jarvis Johnson will compete in a May 4 special election to determine who completes the 2024 Texas Senate term of new Houston Mayor John Whitmire. Then Cook and Johnson will square off again May 28 in primary runoff.
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Cook and Johnson, the state representative for House District 139, are vying to succeed new Houston Mayor John Whitmire in the state senate. A special election to complete the 2024 portion of Whitmire's term is scheduled for May 4, and Cook and Johnson will again compete in a Democratic primary runoff on May 28.
Dutton was first elected to the Texas House in 1984 and is currently one of the chamber’s longest-serving members, but his willingness to buck his party has forced him into runoffs before.
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On Monday, 96,000 ballots had been cast since the start of early voting for the runoff election, according to Harris County Elections Department. The city of Houston has about 500,000 registered voters.
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