{"id":416350,"date":"2026-08-25T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416350\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:40:08","slug":"paige-ellis-will-not-seek-third-term-on-austin-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416350\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Ellis will not seek third term on Austin City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin City Council Member Paige Ellis will not seek another term in office after her petition to run again was rejected, according to the city of Austin. <\/p>\n<p>Ellis represents District 8, which includes parts of South and Southwest Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Ellis submitted a petition with more than 3,400 signatures to the city clerk. Austin&#8217;s city charter states that candidates who have reached their term limit can seek an additional term if they get support from 5% of qualified voters in their district. <\/p>\n<p>Ellis needed 3,044 signatures to qualify. City officials said her petition was short 62 valid signatures, leading to its rejection. <\/p>\n<p>Ellis&#8217; time in office is set to end in January after she served two four-year terms. She previously said she wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/austin\/2026-08-20\/austin-tx-paige-ellis-third-term-district-8-city-council\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">run for one more term<\/a> to see some of her unfinished projects through.<\/p>\n<p>This November, voters in District 8 will decide between Selena Xie, who led the Austin EMS Association, and Jeffery Bowen, who previously ran for mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin City Council Member Paige Ellis will not seek another term in office after her petition to run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,1501,134,133,10533,3759,145011,145012,5373,3669],"class_list":["post-416350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-city-council","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-tx","tag-city-of-austin","tag-district-8-council-race","tag-november-2026","tag-november-election","tag-paige-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416350","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=416350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}