{"id":429895,"date":"2026-09-08T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:24:13","slug":"qa-learn-more-about-candidates-for-texas-senate-district-21-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429895\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Learn more about candidates for Texas Senate District 21 | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about candidates in the race for Texas Senate District 21.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Julie Dahlberg and Democrat Judith Zaffirini, the incumbent, will appear on the ballot in the Senate race. <a href=\"https:\/\/dvr.capitol.texas.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">District 21<\/a> stretches across Southwest Texas and covers portions of Bexar, Guadalupe, Hays and Travis counties.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines or for style and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting runs from Oct. 19-30, and Election Day is Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on voting and polling locations, visit your county&#8217;s website or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votetexas.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.votetexas.gov<\/a>. For more election coverage, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityimpact.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.communityimpact.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Indicates an incumbent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Find out more about candidates in the race for Texas Senate District 21. Republican Julie Dahlberg and Democrat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,149231,149232,149233,149236,149235,149234,149237],"class_list":["post-429895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-judith-zaffirini","tag-julie-dahlberg","tag-texas-senate-district-21","tag-texas-senate-district-21-candidates","tag-texas-senate-district-21-democrat","tag-texas-senate-district-21-republican","tag-texas-senate-district-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429895","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=429895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}