{"id":132467,"date":"2026-01-21T21:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/132467\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:34:06","slug":"manvel-to-hold-may-election-for-mayor-city-council-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/132467\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvel to hold May election for mayor, City Council seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2026\/01\/08\/manvel-officials-draft-new-comprehensive-plans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manvel<\/a> will hold a general election May 2, with mayor and City Council Place 3 and 5 seats on the ballot for three-year terms, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/manveltx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/622\/files\/attachment\/6805\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city documents. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Three candidates, including two incumbents, have filed for the election ahead of the Feb. 13 filing deadline, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmanvel.com\/DocumentCenter\/View\/3478\/WHO-IS-RUNNING-2026-?bidId=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city documents<\/a>. An asterisk indicates the incumbent:<\/p>\n<p>Mayor: <\/p>\n<p>Place 3: Place 5: The deadline for candidates to file is 5 p.m. Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s website, key dates for the Manvel City Council election include:<\/p>\n<p>Voter registration deadline: April 2Early voting period: April 20-28Election Day: May 2Official election information, documents and updates are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2025\/12\/02\/manvel-moves-forward-with-major-commercial-development-at-manvel-crossing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the city\u2019s<\/a> website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofmanvel.com\/159\/Election-Information\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.cityofmanvel.com\/elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manvel will hold a general election May 2, with mayor and City Council Place 3 and 5 seats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56706,50477,1604,50480,409,50478,56,58,57,50479,36576,50476,43570,56705,50481,7601],"class_list":{"0":"post-132467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-city-council-election","9":"tag-city-hall-expansion","10":"tag-community-impact","11":"tag-crain-group","12":"tag-election","13":"tag-heritage-park","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-headlines","16":"tag-houston-news","17":"tag-inclusive-playground","18":"tag-manvel-city-council","19":"tag-manvel-city-hall","20":"tag-may","21":"tag-mayor-election","22":"tag-roadway-updates","23":"tag-thoroughfare-plan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}