{"id":297195,"date":"2026-05-17T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:28:13","slug":"joe-panzarella-projected-to-win-houston-city-council-district-c-seat-unofficial-results-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297195\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Panzarella projected to win Houston City Council District C Seat, unofficial results show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Joe Panzarella is the projected winner of the runoff election in Houston&#8217;s District C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Panzarella received 65% of the vote, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisvotes.com\/Election-Results\/Live-Results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:unofficial numbers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;unofficial numbers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">unofficial numbers<\/a> from the Harris County Clerk&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The seat was in play after Councilmember Abbie Kamin resigned to run for Harris County Attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That move triggered a special election, but when none of the 7 candidates reached 50% of the vote, the election went to a runoff.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The district spans many of the City of Houston&#8217;s well-known areas, including The Heights, Montrose, and Meyerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Over 9,900 voters voted in the runoff election, according to the Harris County Clerk&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winner will play a part in the city&#8217;s 2027 fiscal year budget <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mayor-john-whitmire-lays-budget-212752588.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:process.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;process.&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">process.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The election results are expected to be certified and the winner sworn in in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Panzarella is the projected winner of the runoff election in Houston&#8217;s District C. Panzarella received 65% of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,85644,7837,108214],"class_list":["post-297195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joe-panzarella","tag-runoff-election","tag-unofficial-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297195","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=297195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}