{"id":149407,"date":"2026-02-03T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149407\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:53:07","slug":"west-lake-hills-to-host-may-2-election-for-mayor-2-council-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149407\/","title":{"rendered":"West Lake Hills to host May 2 election for mayor, 2 council members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThree seats are up for election in West Lake Hills this May, following an <a href=\"https:\/\/westlakehillstx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/573\/files\/attachment\/5692\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ordinance<\/a> approved by <a href=\"https:\/\/westlakehills.org\/108\/Mayor-City-Council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City Council<\/a> on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Diving in deeper<\/p>\n<p>The positions include mayor, Place 2 and Place 4. These seats are held by James Vaughan, Brian Plunkett and Darin Walker, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As of Feb. 3, candidates who have <a href=\"https:\/\/westlakehills.org\/283\/Elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed to run<\/a> on the ballot include:<\/p>\n<p>Mayor: James VaughanPlace 2: Margaret MoorePlace 4: Julia Webber and Zeke Dumke IVWhat else?<\/p>\n<p>The window to file closes Feb. 13, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/voter\/important-election-dates.shtml#2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Secretary of State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/westlakehills.org\/283\/Elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the city<\/a>, qualified candidates must:<\/p>\n<p>Be a registered voterHave lived in the city for at least one year to run for mayor or six months to run for councilBe 18 years old prior to the election dateThe election is set for May 2, with a voter registration deadline of April 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three seats are up for election in West Lake Hills this May, following an ordinance approved by City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1604,251,62235,62234,8206,62232,62231,20785,62233,62236],"class_list":{"0":"post-149407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-community-impact","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-may-elections","14":"tag-west-lake","15":"tag-west-lake-hills","16":"tag-west-lake-hills-city-council","17":"tag-west-lake-hills-elections","18":"tag-westlake","19":"tag-westlake-hills","20":"tag-westlake-may-elections"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149407","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=149407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}