{"id":156038,"date":"2026-02-08T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156038\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:34:36","slug":"unofficial-voting-results-show-annette-sponseller-wins-race-for-leander-city-council-place-4-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156038\/","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial voting results show Annette Sponseller wins race for Leander City Council Place 4 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted 7:41 a.m. Feb. 8<\/p>\n

Unofficial results show Annette Sponseller garnered 52.21% of ballots cast in the race for Leander City Council Place 4 with 3088 votes. Challenger Andy Eis received 40.44% with 2392 votes.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Polls closed at 7 p.m. in the Feb. 7 special election. Leander residents cast ballots to determine the city’s newest council member. The winner will hold the position for the remainder of the current term, which ends in 2027.<\/p>\n

The position of mayor was also on the ballot. Na\u2019Cole Thompson, the current Place 4 council member and mayor pro tem, stepped down to run for mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the candidates<\/p>\n

Community Impact spoke to both of the candidates\u2014Annette Sponselle and Andy Eis\u2014ahead of early voting. Find the Q&A here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned<\/p>\n

Community Impact will reach out to Sponselle for comment regarding the outcome of the race for Leander City Council Place 4 and will update this story with any comments received. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Daniel Schwalm<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel is a government reporter covering the northwest portion of the Austin area, including Cedar Park, Leander and Liberty Hill. Before joining Community Impact in December 2025, he worked as a producer at WGNO-TV, the ABC News affiliate in New Orleans. He graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with a degree in journalism and English. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, camping and reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted 7:41 a.m. Feb. 8 Unofficial results show Annette Sponseller garnered 52.21% of ballots cast in the race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,64274,64275,11284,64277,64279,64276,64273,64278],"class_list":["post-156038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-election-results-leander","tag-february-7-election-results","tag-leander-city-council","tag-leander-city-council-candidates","tag-leander-city-council-place-4","tag-leander-city-council-race","tag-leander-election-results","tag-leander-place-4-candidates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156038","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=156038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}