{"id":276616,"date":"2026-05-03T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:04:10","slug":"unofficial-voting-results-show-early-leaders-in-dripping-springs-city-council-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276616\/","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial voting results show early leaders in Dripping Springs City Council races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted at 8:36 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Hays County has released early voting results for the Dripping Springs City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/southwest-austin-dripping-springs\/election\/2026\/03\/19\/meet-the-candidates-for-dripping-springs-city-council-place-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Place 2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/southwest-austin-dripping-springs\/election\/2026\/03\/19\/qa-meet-the-candidates-for-dripping-springs-city-council-place-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Place 4<\/a> elections.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Two seats are up for election on the Dripping Springs City Council. Candidate Ana Grace Husted and Incumbent Wade King are seeking votes in the Dripping Springs City Council, Place 2 race. King is currently serving as the Place 2 council member. According to early voting results, Husted is leading with 64% of votes, or 152 votes, followed by King with 36%, or 86 votes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777773850_99_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/>Incumbent Wm. Travis Crow and candidate Mitch Royer are seeking votes in the Dripping Springs City Council, Place 4 race. Crow is currently serving as the Place 4 council member. Early results show Crow in the lead with 51% of the votes, or 117 votes, followed by Royer with 49% of the votes, or 114.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/28797715\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/>What else?<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial early voting results showed that 1,605 ballots were cast countywide, compared to 101,415 registered Hays County voters.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>Polls closed at 7 p.m.; voters who were in line at 7 p.m. were still able to cast ballots.<\/p>\n<p>All results are unofficial until canvassed on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/southwest-austin-dripping-springs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all local elections in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted at 8:36 p.m. Hays County has released early voting results for the Dripping Springs City Council Place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4170,83181,2427,102357,68456],"class_list":["post-276616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dripping-springs","tag-dripping-springs-city-council","tag-hays-county","tag-place-2","tag-place-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276616","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=276616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}