{"id":276870,"date":"2026-05-03T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:16:10","slug":"unofficial-voting-results-show-zavala-armstrong-secure-hays-cisd-trustee-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276870\/","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial voting results show Zavala, Armstrong secure Hays CISD trustee seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated May 3, 12:07 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>With all precincts in Hays, Caldwell and Travis counties reporting in the May 2 uniform election, unofficial results show Alex Zavala and Katy Armstrong have secured seats on the Hays CISD board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>In the race for the at-large position, Zavala secured 706, or 54.48% of ballots, against opponent Ashlee Thurston, who had 590, or 45.52% ballots cast in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong secured 189, or 63.64% of votes in the race for the Single-Member District 2 seat, with candidate Jose Luis Perez securing the remaining 36.36% ballots, according to a report from HCISD.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Raul Vela Jr. ran unopposed for the Single-Member District 1 seat. He was first elected to the board in 2020 and will retain his seat for another three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p>All results are unofficial until canvassed on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>Updated at 10:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial results show that Katy Armstrong has 64.11% of votes and Jose Luis Perez has 35.89% of votes in the Hays CISD trustee, Single-Member District 2 race. Additionally, they show that Alex Zavala has 54.47% of votes and Ashlee Thurston has 45.53% of votes in the HCISD trustee, at-large race.<\/p>\n<p>All Hays and Travis County precincts are reporting. Caldwell County voting results are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Posted at 9:04 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Hays and Travis counties have released early voting results for the Hays CISD trustee elections. Caldwell County election results are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Two seats are up for election on the HCISD board of trustees. Katy Armstrong and Jose Luis Perez are seeking votes in the HCISD trustee, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/election\/2026\/03\/05\/meet-the-candidates-for-hays-cisd-trustee-single-member-district-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Single-Member District 2<\/a> election. The current District 2 trustee, Johnny Flores, is not running for reelection. According to unofficial early results, Armstrong is in the lead with 64.11% of votes, or 184 votes, followed by Perez with 35.89%, or 103 votes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777776049_3_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ashlee Thurston and Alex Zavala are seeking votes in the HCISD trustee, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/election\/2026\/03\/05\/meet-the-candidates-for-hays-cisd-trustee-at-large\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at-large<\/a> election. The current trustee at large, Vanessa Petrea, is not running for reelection. Unofficial early voting results show Zavala narrowly in the lead with 54.40% of votes, or 698 votes, followed by Thurston with 45.60%, or 585 votes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777776050_345_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/>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 11.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all local elections in your community.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated May 3, 12:07 a.m. With all precincts in Hays, Caldwell and Travis counties reporting in the May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,13492,2427,394],"class_list":["post-276870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-caldwell-county","tag-hays-county","tag-travis-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276870","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=276870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}