{"id":235597,"date":"2026-04-05T02:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:56:34","slug":"how-houston-voted-in-special-election-to-fill-city-council-district-c-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235597\/","title":{"rendered":"How Houston voted in special election to fill City Council District C seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday was Election Day in Houston, as voters headed to the polls in the special election for District C. It\u2019s a seat left vacant when Abbie Kamin stepped down to run for Harris County Attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Candidates running to take over include Angelica Luna Kaufman, Sophia Campos, Audrey Nath, Laura C. Gallier, Patrick Oathout, Joe Panzarella, and Nick Hellyar. The winner will fill the rest of the current term, which runs until January 1, 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">District C goes from far northwest Houston to the southwest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/council\/maps2024\/c.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Here is a map to show the area it covers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Here is a map to show the area it covers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Here is a map to show the area it covers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Below are results straight from the HarrisVotes.com website.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday was Election Day in Houston, as voters headed to the polls in the special election for District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4105,90796,85643,6513,56,58,57,85644,90838,85645,85646,90839],"class_list":{"0":"post-235597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-abbie-kamin","9":"tag-angelica-luna-kaufman","10":"tag-audrey-nath","11":"tag-election-day","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-joe-panzarella","16":"tag-laura-c-gallier","17":"tag-nick-hellyar","18":"tag-patrick-oathout","19":"tag-sophia-campos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235597","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=235597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}