{"id":335729,"date":"2026-06-14T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:41:09","slug":"chappelle-wins-election-to-fill-vacant-seat-on-grand-prairie-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335729\/","title":{"rendered":"Chappelle wins election to fill vacant seat on Grand Prairie City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Chappelle won the Grand Prairie City Council District 3 seat with 64.9% of the vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/results.enr.clarityelections.com\/TX\/Dallas\/126485\/web.345435\/#\/detail\/0005\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">per unofficial results<\/a> Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>He will fill the seat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/news\/2026-03-16\/grand-prairie-city-council-member-mike-del-bosque-dies-at-53-colleagues-praise-legacy\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">most recently held by Mike Del Bosque<\/a>, who died in March. The seat has been vacant in the interim.<\/p>\n<p>Chappelle was not immediately available for comment. KERA has reached out to the campaigns of Chappelle and his opponent Amber Timberlake and will update this article with any comment. <\/p>\n<p>Chappelle will hold the seat for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout was low for this election, with only a few hundred ballots cast as of Saturday night. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/quickfacts\/fact\/table\/grandprairiecitytexas\/PST045224\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Census Bureau estimates the city&#8217;s current population<\/a> around 209,000.<\/p>\n<p>Got a tip? Email Andy Lusk at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/news\/2026-06-13\/mailto:alusk@kera.org\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alusk@kera.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>KERA News is made possible through the generosity of our members. If you find this reporting valuable, consider\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trk.kera.org\/newsfr20\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">making a tax-deductible gift today<\/a>. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Chappelle won the Grand Prairie City Council District 3 seat with 64.9% of the vote, per unofficial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-335729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335729","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=335729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}