{"id":276914,"date":"2026-05-03T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:17:11","slug":"mcbrayer-wins-second-term-as-lubbock-mayor-the-amarillo-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276914\/","title":{"rendered":"McBrayer Wins Second Term as Lubbock Mayor \u2014 The Amarillo Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Lubbock voters have given Mark McBrayer the green light to serve another two terms as the city\u2019s top elected official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to unofficial election results from Saturday night, McBrayer won re-election with 70 percent of the vote. McBrayer was trailed by Stephen Sanders, who won 19 percent, Peggy Bohmfalk, who received 8 percent, and Todd Winans, who received 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">McBrayer, a Lubbock attorney, was first elected in 2024 after having served on the Lubbock City Council. This marks the first time a Lubbock mayor has been re-elected since 2020, when then-incumbent Dan Pope narrowly won re-election against Sanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lubbock voters have given Mark McBrayer the green light to serve another two terms as the city\u2019s top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-276914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276914","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=276914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}