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To serve as mayor of Houston, a person must be a qualified voter and resident of the City. [1] To win the election, a candidate is required to receive the majority of votes; if no candidate receives a majority, a run-off election between the top two [2] Until 2015, the term of the mayor was two years. [1]
John Harris Whitmire (born August 13, 1949) [2] is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd mayor of Houston, Texas since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitmire was previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 until 1983, and the Texas State Senate from 1983 to 2023.
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On August 21, 2023, Buzbee filed to run for the Houston City Council seat for District G. [36] In the general election, Buzbee placed second with 41.31%, advancing to a runoff against incumbent Mary Huffman who earned 49.42% of the vote. [37] Buzbee lost the runoff to Huffman with the latter receiving a little over 56% of the vote. [38]
The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took ...
Kit Delgado, a 19-year-old art student at Houston Community College, said that while a mayor can’t really impact those issues much, it’s important to younger voters to have someone in office ...
Nuclear art was an artistic approach developed by some artists and painters, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. László Moholy-Nagy, Nuclear II, 1946 (Milwaukee art museum) Conception and origins
Whitmire will replace term-limited Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Jackson Lee falls short in effort to become first Black woman leader […] The post Democrat John Whitmire elected Houston mayor ...