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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 ...
In November 2021, Whitmire announced his candidacy in the 2023 Houston mayoral election to succeed term-limited Mayor Sylvester Turner. [20] He first considered a mayoral bid in the 1990s and was encouraged by Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo to run in the 2023 race. [ 21 ]
Critics have cast the laws as a power grab by Texas’ Republican-led legislature, aimed at disrupting how elections are run in an increasingly blue part of a traditionally red state.
Houston mayoral candidates state Sen. John Whitmire and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee speak at a mayoral forum on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Houston.
The 2023 Fort Worth mayoral election was held on May 6, 2023, to elect the mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. The election was officially nonpartisan. The election was officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Republican mayor Mattie Parker won re-election to a second two-year term in office.
Fort Worth’s 2021 mayor and council elections brought five new members to the nine-person Fort Worth city council. In 2023, there will be at least three new members with two coming through the ...
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 ...
The following is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. Until 2015, the term of the mayor was two years. Beginning with the tenure of Bob Lanier , the city charter imposed term limits on officeholders of no more than three terms (six years total).