{"id":277638,"date":"2026-05-04T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:21:01","slug":"unofficial-polling-data-shows-craig-morgan-to-win-4th-term-as-round-rock-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277638\/","title":{"rendered":"Unofficial polling data shows Craig Morgan to win 4th term as Round Rock Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated at 9:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>With about 91% of precincts reporting, incumbent Mayor Craig Morgan is likely to secure a fourth term leading the city of Round Rock.<\/p>\n<p>The results<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial polling numbers from early and election day voting show Morgan garnered 82.57% of votes, while Hall received 17.43% of votes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I&#8217;ve always said, it&#8217;ll be left to the people that come out and vote in Round Rock,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;I&#8217;m gracious for all the people that supported me. I&#8217;m ready to get to work and try to continue the people&#8217;s work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posted at 7:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Voters cast early ballots April 20-28 in the May 2 Round Rock City Council race to select the city\u2019s next mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The results<\/p>\n<p>Early voting data from Travis and Williamson County became available shortly after 7 p.m., and show incumbent Craig Morgan with 83.19% of early ballots cast, followed by challenger Kelly Hall with 16.81% of early ballots.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Candidates elected to serve the city as its mayor will do so for a three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/round-rock\/election\/2026\/03\/20\/qa-meet-the-candidates-for-round-rock-mayor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">candidates<\/a> filed to appear on the ballot for the mayor\u2019s race; Morgan and Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Hall was later determined <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/round-rock\/government\/2026\/04\/09\/city-finds-round-rock-mayoral-candidate-kelly-hall-ineligible\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">administratively ineligible<\/a> to run for the position. However, he still appears on the ballot, and should Hall receive the most votes, a special election will be held, according to city staff.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>All polling data is unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all local and state elections in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated at 9:45 p.m. With about 91% of precincts reporting, incumbent Mayor Craig Morgan is likely to secure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,92860,92859,62235,64800,89876,67860,102613],"class_list":["post-277638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-craig-morgan-round-rock","tag-kelly-hall-round-rock","tag-may-elections","tag-round-rock-city-council","tag-round-rock-elections","tag-round-rock-mayor","tag-round-rock-mayors-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277638","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=277638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}