{"id":273490,"date":"2026-04-30T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:06:07","slug":"what-to-know-ahead-of-the-may-2-election-in-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273490\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know ahead of the May 2 election in Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tElection day is May 2 for local elections across Williamson County. Georgetown voters can expect to see one contested race for City Council on their ballots, as well as a proposition to approve the sale of the majority of the city\u2019s water service territory.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s on the ballot<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Jake French will run against challenger Emily Kaye Kipp for District 6. Read Q&amp;As with the candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/georgetown\/election\/2026\/03\/18\/qa-meet-the-candidates-running-for-georgetown-city-council-district-6-in-may\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who live in District 6 can vote in the race. <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/5d7e946c81e2428999f8ba481cb4a1af\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">District 6<\/a> generally encompasses the area of Georgetown between I-35 and Hwy. 130 from their northern intersection to Hwy. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Both the race for mayor and District 2 are uncontested. Georgetown Mayor Josh Schroeder and newcomer Doug Noble will run unopposed for those seats, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, National Utility Infrastructure plans to buy a portion of <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/georgetown\/development\/2026\/02\/12\/election-could-see-majority-of-georgetowns-water-service-territory-sold-for-60m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown\u2019s water service territory<\/a> within Salado, Florence and Liberty Hill. The cities of Killeen and Jarrell are also moving forward with purchasing their water territories, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The sale requires voter approval. By selling the water territory outside of city limits and the extraterritorial jurisdiction, the city can reduce risk from outside development, decrease the burden on Georgetown taxpayers, and better account for growing water demand, officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/georgetown\/government\/2025\/08\/28\/georgetown-officials-explore-sale-of-water-service-territory-outside-city-limits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Where to vote<\/p>\n<p>Registered voters in Georgetown may cast their ballots at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilcotx.gov\/185\/Elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">any polling location<\/a> in Williamson County on election day.<\/p>\n<p>There are six voting locations in Georgetown:<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown City Hall: 808 Martin Luther King Jr. St.Georgetown Annex: 100 Wilco WayGeorgetown ISD Technology Building: 603 Lakeway DriveCity of Georgetown Fire Station No. 6: 6700 Williams DriveThe Oaks at Sun City: 301 Del Webb Blvd.Southwestern University: 1001 Southwestern Blvd.Voting will take place from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will provide coverage of the May 2 election online. For live results, click <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/georgetown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election day is May 2 for local elections across Williamson County. Georgetown voters can expect to see one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,66401,19452,409,12268,84965,69429,4277,101430],"class_list":["post-273490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ccn","tag-district-6","tag-election","tag-georgetown","tag-local-election","tag-may-2","tag-voters","tag-water-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273490","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=273490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}