{"id":276582,"date":"2026-05-03T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276582\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:28:10","slug":"see-whos-leading-in-the-keller-city-council-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276582\/","title":{"rendered":"See who\u2019s leading in the Keller City Council election"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUnofficial results show Russ Medeiros is leading for the Keller City Council Place 4 seat, Chris Whatley is currently ahead for the Place 5 seat, and Charles Randklev is in the lead for the Place 6 seat.<\/p>\n

According to the unofficial early voting totals released from the Tarrant County Elections Office website, Medeiros has secured 1,792 votes, or 43% of the votes tallied so far. Whatley has 2,529 votes, which makes up 60% of voters counted so far, and Randklev has 2,650 votes, which is 63% of current votes.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening? <\/p>\n

Three Keller City Council seats are up for election May 2.<\/p>\n

Elda Rata, Jarrett Armstrong and Medeiros are competing for the Place 4<\/a> seat.<\/p>\n

Incumbent Whatley goes up against Ned Brown and Ashley Stone Hernandez for the Place 5<\/a> seat.<\/p>\n

Zane Kupper and Randklev are vying for the Place 6<\/a> seat on Keller City Council.<\/p>\n

The breakdown<\/p>\n

Totals from Tarrant County ballots cast May 2 have yet to be released. Polls closed at 7 p.m., although voters who were in line at 7 p.m. were still able to cast ballots.<\/p>\n

During the early voting period, 52,732 residents cast ballots, while 6,480 returned ballots by mail, according to county election data. The turnout was 4.49% of the county\u2019s registered voters.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n

Visit https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/ <\/a>to see results from all local elections in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unofficial results show Russ Medeiros is leading for the Keller City Council Place 4 seat, Chris Whatley is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102335,72688,40190,41432,92256,36274,76182,409,116,118,117,102337,14256,84965,61723,102334,54575,33063,44167,102338,2279,102336],"class_list":["post-276582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-ashley-stone-hernandez","tag-ballots","tag-candidates","tag-charles-randklev","tag-chris-whatley","tag-city-election","tag-elda-rata","tag-election","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-jarrett-armstrong","tag-keller-city-council","tag-local-election","tag-may-2-election","tag-ned-brown","tag-place-5","tag-place-6","tag-place-7","tag-russ-medeiros","tag-voting","tag-zane-kupper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276582","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=276582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}