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EL PASO, Tx., May 7, 2026: The next El Paso election for four city council seats will get underway on July 18, 2026, the first day to file to run. The filing period ends on August 17. Who will be running for the seats in Districts 1, 5, 6 and 8 will not be known until the filing period closes. The incumbents, Alejandra Ch\u00e1vez (1), Ivan Ni\u00f1o (5), Art Fierro (6) and Chris Canales (8) are expected to seek reelection although no official announcements have been made.<\/p>\n
Two of the candidates must defend their seats this year after winning them in 2024. Challengers to the seats held by Ch\u00e1vez and Ni\u00f1o have already officially announced, months ahead of the start of the filing deadline.<\/p>\n Alejandra Ch\u00e1vez<\/p>\n Ch\u00e1vez reported $72,307.14 in campaign funds available to her in her last campaign finance report filed in January. She is likely nearing $100,000 in contributions according to recent disclosures of campaign contributions made to city council. Ch\u00e1vez, who was running to fill Brian Kennedy\u2019s unexpired term, was forced<\/a> into a runoff election by Monica Reyes. Ch\u00e1vez spent $75,499.26 to win the 2024 election against three opponents. She has not updated her campaign website<\/a> since 2024.<\/p>\n One of her 2024 opponents, Sam Armijo, has filed a treasurer designation signaling that he will run for the seat again in November.<\/p>\n Armijo, who holds a PhD in Materials Science from Stanford University and is a U.S. Army veteran, ran on a platform of putting more police on the streets and stopping \u201cwasteful spending\u201d and \u201creducing city debt\u201d in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n No other candidates have announced for the District 1 seat as of this morning. However, another incumbent, who ran to fill an unexpired term in 2024, also faces an opponent.<\/p>\n Ivan Ni\u00f1o<\/p>\n The other incumbent facing an announced challenger is Ivan Ni\u00f1o. He, like Ch\u00e1vez, was also running to fill an unexpired term. Isabel Salcido, like Brian Kennedy, resigned their seats to run for mayor in 2024. Ni\u00f1o worked for Salcido before running for her seat in 2024.<\/p>\n Ni\u00f1o, according to his last campaign finance report has $30,480.91 in campaign funds available. Ni\u00f1o has also not updated his website<\/a> from 2024. In February, a challenger filed paperwork officially announcing he was running against Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n El Paso restauranteur, Arturo R. Alluin, is running against Ni\u00f1o. He filed his campaign\u2019s treasurer designation in February. He has an active campaign website<\/a> and has launched a block walking campaign.<\/p>\n Alluin, along with his parents, announced in 2018 that they were opening three Bar Louie eateries in El Paso in 2017, according to a press release<\/a> by Bar Louie. However, there are no Bar Louie locations currently in El Paso. There are 11 locations in Texas, mostly in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n The franchise chain filed for bankruptcy<\/a> last year a day after several outlets suddenly closed in Cleveland, Michigan and New Jersey. This was the franchise\u2019s second bankruptcy in five years after filing its first Chapter 11 before the pandemic in 2020. Since the filing, Texas Bar Louie outlets in Arlington, Allen and Dallas have also shuttered their restaurants.<\/p>\n According to Alluin\u2019s campaign website, he opened The Melting Pot, Sushi Itto and founded AO Ventures. AO Ventures manages Susi Itto.<\/p>\n The two other city council seats up for grabs are Chris Canales\u2019 and Art Fierro\u2019s seats. According to the latest campaign finance reports, Canales has $10,339.17 in campaign funds and Fierro reported $16,457.29 in campaign funds available to him. Neither has an announced opponent yet. Canales maintains an official city representative website<\/a>, while Fierro<\/a> does not have a campaign website.<\/p>\n The next campaign finance reports are not due until July 15. The two opponents who have announced to run for city council do not have to report campaign funds raised or spent until July 15. 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Screengrab of block walk announcement posted to social media, April 22, 2026, Mart\u00edn Paredes\/El Paso Herald Post.<\/p>\n