{"id":146080,"date":"2026-02-01T03:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146080\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T03:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:40:01","slug":"updated-shun-thomas-leads-plano-city-council-place-7-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146080\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Shun Thomas leads Plano City Council Place 7 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated 9:02 p.m., Jan. 31<\/p>\n<p>Shun Thomas remains in the lead in the Plano City Council Place 7 special election.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has received 3,743 votes, or 57.63%, while Colleen Aguilar-Epstein has received 2,751 votes. Five of 11 Collin County precincts and all Denton County precincts are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n<p>Posted 7:09 p.m., Jan. 31<\/p>\n<p>Early 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":"Updated 9:02 p.m., Jan. 31 Shun Thomas remains in the lead in the Plano City Council Place 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146081,"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-146080","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\/146080","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=146080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}