{"id":148071,"date":"2026-02-02T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:21:39","slug":"candidates-begin-filing-for-allen-council-races-ahead-of-may-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/148071\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates begin filing for Allen council races ahead of May election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSince the filing period opened <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/allen\/election\/2026\/01\/20\/candidate-filings-open-for-allen-city-council-allen-isd-may-races\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 14<\/a>, three candidates have filed to run for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofallen.org\/government\/city_secretary\/elections\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allen City Council<\/a> seats in the May election, City Secretary Shelley George said.<\/p>\n<p>The specifics<\/p>\n<p>Allen Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofallen.org\/business_detail_T4_R16.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baine Brooks<\/a> is completing his final term in the seat and cannot run for reelection based on the city&#8217;s ordinances for term <a href=\"https:\/\/library.municode.com\/tx\/allen\/codes\/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=HOME_RULE_CHARTERFOTH_ARTIITHCO_S2.02QU#:~:text=No%20person%20shall%20serve%20as,the%20computation%20of%20term%20limits.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">limits.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two candidates have filed for the mayoral race so far:<\/p>\n<p>Chris SchulmeisterDavid Shafer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofallen.org\/business_detail_T4_R78.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Baril <\/a>currently sits in Place 2 and is running for reelection. He is running unopposed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Allen City Council members are elected citywide rather than by a district, and serve three-year terms. For more details, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofallen.org\/government\/city_secretary\/elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.cityofallen.org\/government\/city_secretary\/elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dates to know<\/p>\n<p>Filing ends at 5 p.m. Feb. 13, and the drawing for a place on the ballot will be held at 4 p.m. Feb. 20, George said.<\/p>\n<p>Election day is May 2. Early voting begins April 20 and ends April 28, per the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/voter\/important-election-dates.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> website.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the filing period opened Jan. 14, three candidates have filed to run for Allen City Council seats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[61712,61716,61718,61717,61713,61714,61721,61719,61720,61715,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-148071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-allen-city-council-election-2026","tag-allen-city-council-place-2","tag-allen-local-election-filing-period","tag-allen-mayor-term-limits","tag-allen-mayoral-race-2026","tag-allen-texas-election-candidates","tag-allen-tx-early-voting-dates","tag-chris-schulmeister-allen","tag-david-shafer-allen-mayor","tag-may-2026-allen-election","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148071","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=148071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}