Filing closed in the May 2 special election to replace Fort Worth City Council member Alan Blaylock, with no new candidates besides Chris Jamieson and Alicia Ortiz who applied for their places on the ballot<\/a> a month ago.<\/p>\n Voters will decide who fills the remaining year of Blaylock\u2019s two-year term, which expires in May 2027. Blaylock is departing to run for the Texas House<\/a>. Filing closed March 3. Early voting for his District 10 City Council seat is April 20-28.<\/a><\/p>\n Jamieson<\/a>, an entrepreneur, and Ortiz<\/a>, a former seven-year district director for then-council member Cary Moon, are seeking public office for their first time.<\/p>\n District 10 comprises much of the Alliance corridor<\/a>. Jamieson lives in Willow Ridge Estates off U.S. 287, and Ortiz lives in Heritage.<\/p>\n The candidates are campaigning on issues such as well-planned and managed growth, public safety and fiscal accountability.<\/p>\n Jamieson says his background as an entrepreneur will help at City Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n From 2015 to 2022, Ortiz was director in City Council District 4 \u2014 which included a swath of east Fort Worth up into the Alliance corridor before redistricting in 2022. She said that experience gives her a substantial edge in understanding the corridor\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n Scott Nishimura is senior editor for local government accountability at the Fort Worth Report. Reach him at scott.nishimura@fortworthreport.org<\/a>.\u00a0News decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/03\/08\/with-filing-closed-two-candidates-seek-fort-worth-city-council-district-10-seat\/”>article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org”>Fort Worth Report<\/a> and is republished here under a <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<img src=”https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-favicon.png?resize=150%2C150&quality=80&ssl=1″ style=”width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;”><\/p>\n <img id=”republication-tracker-tool-source” src=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/?republication-pixel=true&post=436916&ga4=2820184429″ style=”width:1px;height:1px;”><script> PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: “https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/03\/08\/with-filing-closed-two-candidates-seek-fort-worth-city-council-district-10-seat\/”, urlref: window.location.href }); } } <\/script> <script id=”parsely-cfg” src=”\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/fortworthreport.org\/p.js”><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Scott Nishimura, Fort Worth Report March 8, 2026 Filing closed in the May 2 special election to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[288,116,118,117,20103],"class_list":["post-195861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-elections","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-north-fort-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195861","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=195861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}