{"id":146139,"date":"2026-02-01T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146139\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:02:08","slug":"state-senate-district-9-election-results-democrat-taylor-rehmet-leading-over-republican-leigh-wambsganss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146139\/","title":{"rendered":"State Senate District 9 election results: Democrat Taylor Rehmet leading over Republican Leigh Wambsganss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever is elected will fill the northern Tarrant County seat, previously held by Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock.<\/p>\n<p>TARRANT COUNTY, Texas \u2014 Democrat Taylor Rehmet is leading Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the State Senate District 9 runoff election held Saturday in Tarrant County.<\/p>\n<p>Results as of 9 p.m. show Rehmet leading with 56.61% of the vote over Wambsganss&#8217; 43.39%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is elected will fill the seat, which encompasses much of northern Tarrant County, including much of Fort Worth, North Richland Hills, Southlake and Keller, that has been vacant since Kelly Hancock vacated it to take the position of Acting Texas Comptroller.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of who is elected on Saturday, both candidates will immediately begin campaigning again for the March primary, as the seat is up for re-election again in November. This election is to determine who will fulfill the remainder of Hancock&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whoever is elected will fill the northern Tarrant County seat, previously held by Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-146139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146139","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=146139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}