{"id":276587,"date":"2026-05-03T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276587\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:31:08","slug":"jason-a-albert-holds-early-lead-for-manvel-city-council-position-5-unofficial-results-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276587\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason A. Albert holds early lead for Manvel City Council Position 5, unofficial results show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted 8 p.m. May 2<\/p>\n<p>With polls closing in Brazoria County at 7 p.m., the first batch of unofficial election results show Jason A. Albert leading in the race for the Manvel City Council Position 5, according to unofficial results from Brazoria County.<\/p>\n<p>Results are unofficial until canvassed at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>What readers need to know<\/p>\n<p>As of 7:45 p.m. p.m., Jason A. Albert has 304 votes, compared to Juston &#8220;JT&#8221; Thomson, who has 230 votes, early results show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777771868_297_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\"\/>About the candidates<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2026\/03\/25\/qa-get-to-know-the-candidates-running-for-manvel-city-council-position-5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A<\/a> with Community Impact, Thomson said he wants to protect homeowners from carrying the cost of growth, make sure infrastructure keeps pace before expansion and keep city government transparent and straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>Albert did not respond to the Q&amp;A as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>All results are unofficial until canvassed. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from other races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted 8 p.m. May 2 With polls closing in Brazoria County at 7 p.m., the first batch of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[102343,56,58,57,102342,102341,102340,35262,36576,102339],"class_list":["post-276587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-brazoria-county-elections","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jason-albert","tag-juston-thomson","tag-local-elections-manvel","tag-manvel","tag-manvel-city-council","tag-manvel-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276587","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=276587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}