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Beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier, the city charter imposed term limits on officeholders of no more than three terms (six years total). [1] On November 3, 2015, voters approved Proposition 2, which extended the terms of the Mayor, City Controller and City Councilmembers to four years, while imposing a limit of two terms.
The 2023 Houston mayoral election was held on November 7, 2023, with a runoff on December 9 because no candidate won a majority of the vote in the first round. It was held to elect the mayor of Houston, Texas. Incumbent Democratic mayor Sylvester Turner was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term in office. Municipal ...
As the result of a 1991 referendum in Houston, the two-year term was amended to elected officials who can serve up to three terms until 2015 where the three-term limit and two-year terms were replaced with a two four-year terms – a mayor is elected for a four-year term (previously the mayor, controller, and councilmembers are elected to a two ...
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 ...
They are seeking to replace Mayor Sylvester Turner, who has served eight years and can't run again because of term limits. With such a crowded field, it’s unlikely any candidate will get 50% of ...
Term limits of equal length are applied to both mayors and city council members in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio in Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee; New York City; and San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose in California. [90] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has term limits for the mayor, but not the city council. [90]
Houston elected Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire as its next mayor on Saturday night, elevating a Texas lawmaker who has represented the city for 50 years by giving him a victory over U.S. Rep ...
A list of mayors still in office and ordered by their length of continuous service in that office. (If there is a break in their service, then this length is measured from their return to the office.) The longest-serving current mayor of one of the 50 largest cities in the United States is Jean Stothert, who has been mayor of Omaha since June ...