{"id":208360,"date":"2026-03-17T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208360\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:03:23","slug":"early-voting-starts-this-week-in-special-election-for-district-c-seat-on-houston-city-council-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/208360\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting starts this week in special election for District C seat on Houston City Council \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"Houston<\/p>\n

Lucio Vasquez\/Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

Pictured are Mayor John Whitmire and Houston City Council members at City Hall.<\/p>\n

Residents of the Houston City Council’s District C \u2014 which stretches from the Heights through Montrose to Meyerland \u2014 can head to the polls for early voting from Wednesday through the end of March. <\/p>\n

Seven candidates are on the ballot ahead of Election Day on April 4 as District C residents will vote in a special election to fill a vacancy on the city council. In the deep blue district, all of the candidates identify as progressives or Democrats. <\/p>\n

RELATED: Meet the left-leaning candidates in the Houston City Council special election for District C<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Harris County Clerk’s Office is running six early voting sites<\/a>. They will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. on most days during the early voting period, with polls open from noon-7 p.m. on March 22 and March 29:<\/p>\n

Harris County Attorney Conference Center, County Conference Center III\/Meeting Room 109 | 1019 Congress Ave., Houston, TX 77002<\/p>\n

Bayland Park Community Center, Annex | 6400 Bissonnet St., Houston, TX 77074<\/p>\n

Candlelight Park Community Center, Main MultiPurpose Room | 1520 Candlelight Ln., Houston, TX 77018<\/p>\n

Courtyard by Marriott West University, Meeting Room | 2929 Westpark Dr., Houston, TX 77005<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Multi-Service Center, MMSL AR 1, MMSL AR 2, MMSL AR 3 | 1475 West Gray St., Houston, TX 77019
\nSPJST Lodge 88, annex in back of main building | 1435 Beall St., Houston, TX 77008<\/p>\n

The off-year election is taking place because second-term incumbent Abbie Kamin triggered Texas\u2019 resign-to-run law when she launched a bid<\/a> for Harris County Attorney. Kamin, who won the Democratic primary<\/a> for county attorney earlier this month, has not yet announced an endorsement in the race to replace her.<\/p>\n

The most recent city council race \u2014 a special election to fill at-large council member Letitia Plummer’s seat \u2014 concluded in December<\/a> with progressive Alejandra Salinas besting moderate Dwight Boykins. <\/p>\n

Assuming they run for another term, all of the newcomers on the council will be back on the ballot during municipal elections in 2027. <\/p>\n

For residents of District C who also live in the 18th Congressional District, this race marks their fourth election in five months. They’ll have their sixth election in seven months if the District C special election, like the CD-18 Democratic primary<\/a>, heads to a runoff. That would happen if none of the candidates in the April 4 election receives more than 50% of the vote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucio Vasquez\/Houston Public Media Pictured are Mayor John Whitmire and Houston City Council members at City Hall. Residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4105,3766,81742,2065,39794,288,56,4626,17829,81743,58,57,66,223,287,2279],"class_list":["post-208360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-abbie-kamin","tag-city-of-houston","tag-district-c-special-election","tag-early-voting","tag-election-2026","tag-elections","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-city-council-election","tag-houston-city-council-special-election","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208360","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=208360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}