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The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. The Council has sixteen members: eleven from council districts and five elected at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, with the most recent election being held in 2023 and the next being held in 2027.
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Houston City Council members (38 P) M. Mayors of Houston (1 C, 47 P) Pages in category "Politicians from Houston" The following 159 pages are in this category, out of ...
The current mayor of Houston is John Whitmire. The city council lineup was based on a U.S. Justice Department mandate which took effect in 1979. Under the current city charter, when the population in the Houston city limits passed 2.2 million residents, the nine-member city council districts expanded to include two more city council districts. [2]
On January 2, 2014, Gallegos was sworn in to represent District I of the Houston City Council becoming the first openly gay Latino city councilor in Texas history. [4] He succeeded James G. Rodriguez.
Others in contention are former head of Houston’s public transit system Gilbert Garcia, attorney Lee Kaplan, Houston City Councilman Robert Gallegos and former council members Jack Christie and ...
Houston Black Lives Matter, among others, called for his resignation. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In October 2021, Travis announced he would be running for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives, which was effectively an announcement of resignation from the Houston City Council because the Texas Constitution forbids council members from campaigning ...
But Democratic state representatives and Houston City Council members remain alarmed at the more than 2.1 million Texas voters who remain on the suspended list, mainly because county officials don ...