{"id":17135,"date":"2025-10-23T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17135\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:07:08","slug":"early-voting-begins-thursday-in-district-5-city-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17135\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting begins Thursday in District 5 city council race"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 Early voting kicked off Thursday for the Tampa City Council District 5 runoff election.<\/p>\n

The race is down to two candidates: Former city council member Thomas Scott and newcomer Naya Young<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office: District 5 Election<\/a><\/p>\n

They’re running to fill the seat left vacant by the late Gwen Henderson. Voters can cast their ballots at any of these locations<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

C Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library
\nFred B. Karl County Center
\nRobert L. Gilder Elections Service Center
\nWest Tampa Branch Library<\/p>\n

Those early voting locations will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

The early voting period runs through Sunday, Oct. 26 and Election Day will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 28.<\/p>\n

The election is only for voters who live in District 5 in Tampa, which covers the downtown area, Ybor City, Channelside and parts of West Tampa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as\u00a0early voting begins for Tampa\u2019s District 5 City Council runoff, community activists are encouraging residents to stay focused on the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 Early voting kicked off Thursday for the Tampa City Council District 5 runoff election. The race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,276,2287,115,275,135,137,136,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-17135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-local-politics","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news","16":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}