{"id":196025,"date":"2026-03-08T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:05:30","slug":"4-bellaire-residents-file-to-run-for-vacant-city-council-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/196025\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Bellaire residents file to run for vacant City Council position"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four candidates have filed to run in a special election happening in May to fill the empty Bellaire City Council Position 4 seat.<\/p>\n

How it happened<\/p>\n

After Cindy Cohen-Taylor vacated her seat early in December, City Council officially adopted an ordinance<\/a> in January to call a special election to fill the vacant seat.<\/p>\n

Cohen-Taylor won her seat for Position 4 on Bellaire City Council in the Nov. 4, 2024, race against opponent Elan Tavor, as previously reported<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n

In a Dec. 3 social media post, city staff thanked Cohen-Taylor for her contributions to the city and her time spent on council.<\/p>\n

Meet the candidates<\/p>\n

Candidates interested in the position could apply for a place on the ballot from Jan. 26 to March 3.<\/p>\n

Here is the list of those who filed within that time frame, in alphabetical order by last name:<\/p>\n

Shuba GrewalGay MayeuxKevin NewmanTodd Thurber<\/p>\n

The candidate who fills the vacant seat after the election will serve the remainder of the term through January 2028.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

The special election will take place May 2, with canvassing set for May 12, city officials said. Early voting will be conducted from April 20-27, with the polling location at the Bellaire Civic Center, located at 7008 South Rice Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four candidates have filed to run in a special election happening in May to fill the empty Bellaire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34425,40190,59242,1604,409,32397,56,58,57,5692,43570,1454,7838,2279],"class_list":["post-196025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bellaire-city-council","tag-candidates","tag-cindy-cohen-taylor","tag-community-impact","tag-election","tag-filing","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local-government","tag-may","tag-near-me","tag-special-election","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196025","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=196025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}