\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEarly voting results show Robert L. Sheridan III will be Schertz’s new Place 7 City Council member.<\/p>\n
Out of the 31,404 registered voters in Guadalupe County, Sheridan received 467 votes, or 65.31% of the vote in the runoff election. Candidate John D. Carbon received 248 votes, or 34.69% of the ballots cast, according to unofficial results<\/a>.<\/p>\n There were a total of 716 ballots cast in this runoff election, according to unofficial results from Guadalupe County.<\/p>\n Some context<\/p>\n The city called a special election after the previous Place 7 council member, Tim Brown, died in October<\/a>. Brown was initially elected to the position in 2018. Carbon and Sheridan received the most votes out of five candidates in the Dec. 20 special election for the Place 7 seat, according to previous reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n Runoff elections are held between the two candidates who received the largest number of votes, and when no candidate receives a majority of votes, according to the Schertz City Charter<\/a>.<\/p>\n