JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A special election to fill the At-Large Group One City Council vacancy will take place on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n
A resolution was passed by the City Council on Tuesday, May 26, to address the vacancy after Councilman Terrance Freeman<\/a> resigned his position to run for an elected seat in the Florida Legislature. <\/p>\n If no candidate secures a majority of votes in the Aug. 18 election, the two candidates with the highest vote totals will proceed to a Special General Election scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 3.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Candidates seeking to qualify for City Council At-Large Group One must gather 1,855 petitions. The qualifying period for candidates begins at noon on June 11 and ends at noon on June 12.<\/p>\n For further information or questions, you can visit the Duval County Elections Office website at duvalelections.gov<\/a> or call 904-255-VOTE (8683).<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A special election to fill the At-Large Group One City Council vacancy will take place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5957,116,5958,118,117],"class_list":["post-291944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-hall","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-city-hall","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291944","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=291944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}