{"id":156185,"date":"2026-02-08T17:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:53:10","slug":"unofficial-voting-results-show-nacole-thompson-wins-race-for-leander-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156185\/","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial voting results show Na\u2019Cole Thompson wins race for Leander mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted 7:28 a.m. Feb. 8<\/p>\n

Unofficial results show Na\u2019Cole Thompson garnered 57.01% of ballots cast in the race for mayor of Leander with 3372 votes. Challengers Mike Sanders received 25.88% with 1531 votes, and Kathryn Pantalion-Parker received 16.92% with 1001 votes.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Leander residents cast ballots in the Feb. 7 special election to determine the city’s next mayor, who will serve for the rest of the current term, which expires in May 2027. The position became open after Mayor Christine DeLisle stepped down<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

About the candidates<\/p>\n

Community Impact spoke to each of the candidates\u2014Kathryn Pantalion-Parker, Na’Cole Thompson and Mike Sanders\u2014ahead of early voting. Find the Q&A here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thompson is the current Place 4 council member and mayor pro tem and will step down from her position to serve as mayor.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned<\/p>\n

Community Impact will reach out to Thompson for comment regarding the outcome of the race for Leander mayor 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 7:28 a.m. Feb. 8 Unofficial results show Na\u2019Cole Thompson garnered 57.01% of ballots cast in the race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,64274,64275,11284,64279,64330,64273,64329,64327,64328,64331],"class_list":["post-156185","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-place-4","tag-leander-election","tag-leander-election-results","tag-leander-mayor","tag-leander-mayor-candidates","tag-leander-mayoral-election","tag-who-is-the-mayor-of-leander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156185","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=156185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}