{"id":145986,"date":"2026-02-01T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145986\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:12:13","slug":"shun-thomas-leads-plano-city-council-place-7-race-after-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145986\/","title":{"rendered":"Shun Thomas leads Plano City Council Place 7 race after early voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEarly voting results show Shun Thomas leading in the Jan. 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/1345\/Mayor-and-City-Council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano City Council<\/a> special election.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has received 2,416 votes, or 58.36%, leading Colleen Aguilar-Epstein in the Plano City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-south\/election\/2025\/12\/19\/qa-meet-the-candidates-running-for-plano-city-council-place-7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Place 7 race<\/a>. Aguilar-Epstein has received 1,724 votes, according to early voting totals from Collin and Denton Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Place 7 council member Julie Holmer <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/plano-south\/government\/2025\/11\/04\/plano-city-council-member-julie-holmer-resigns-to-pursue-county-seat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced her resignation<\/a> from Plano City Council last year to run for a Collin County Commissioners Court seat. The county seat will be up for election in May.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting results show Shun Thomas leading in the Jan. 31 Plano City Council special election. What you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4519,52476,288,160,162,161,52475,7838],"class_list":{"0":"post-145986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-colleen-aguilar-epstein","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news","14":"tag-shun-thomas","15":"tag-special-election"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145986","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=145986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}