{"id":144800,"date":"2026-01-31T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144800\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:39:08","slug":"lakeway-to-hold-may-election-for-3-council-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144800\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeway to hold May election for 3 council seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThree Lakeway City Council seats will be up for election this May, following approval of an election ordinance Jan. 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Diving in deeper<\/p>\n

Council members in the city of Lakeway are elected at-large<\/a>, meaning the top three candidates with the most votes win the three seats up for election.<\/p>\n

The seats are currently held<\/a> by council members Kelly Brynteson, Matt Sherman and Jennifer Szimanski. All three filed to run for the open positions Jan. 14, and the city\u2019s website<\/a> shows no new applications were filed as of press time.<\/p>\n

Brynteson and Szimanski have served on the board since 2022, while Sherman was elected in 2024.<\/p>\n

The cost<\/p>\n

The city budgeted $50,000 for election expenses in its fiscal year 2025-26 budget, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

What else?<\/p>\n

The window to file closes Feb. 13, according to the Texas Secretary of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Qualified candidates must:<\/p>\n

Be a registered voterHave lived in the city for at least one yearBe 21 years old prior to the election dateThe election is set for May 2, with a voter registration deadline of April 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Lakeway City Council seats will be up for election this May, following approval of an election ordinance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,60757,60756,52573,60759,60760,60758,51115],"class_list":{"0":"post-144800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-jennifer-szimanski","12":"tag-kelly-brynteson","13":"tag-lakeway-city-council","14":"tag-lakeway-council","15":"tag-lakeway-may-election","16":"tag-matt-sherman","17":"tag-may-election"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800","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=144800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}