{"id":479777,"date":"2026-10-28T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479777\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:14:08","slug":"how-much-austin-city-council-candidates-raised-spent-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479777\/","title":{"rendered":"How much Austin City Council candidates raised, spent this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2026 election is days away, and more than 20 candidates are vying for five seats on the Austin City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results will usher in at least two new representatives: Districts 3, 5 and 9 have incumbents defending their spots, while newcomers seek to represent Districts 1 and 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candidates were required to submit their final campaign finance reports before the Nov. 3 election on Monday, offering one last financial snapshot of their campaigns. While raising or spending the most money doesn\u2019t guarantee victory, the reports offer a compelling picture of which campaigns might have momentum and which are running on fumes in the final stretch before the polls close.<\/p>\n<p>District 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/austincurrent.org\/2026\/10\/01\/austin-texas-election-city-council-district-one\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read our candidate profiles<\/a> to better understand where the candidates stand on pressing issues facing East and northeast Austin neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>District 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/austincurrent.org\/2026\/10\/01\/meet-the-candidates-running-to-represent-some-of-austins-east-and-southeast-neighborhoods\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read our candidate profiles<\/a> to better understand where the candidates stand on pressing issues facing East and southeast Austin neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>District 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/austin\/2026-10-13\/austin-tx-district-5-city-council-race-november-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read KUT\u2019s candidate profiles<\/a> to better understand where the candidates stand on pressing issues facing South and southwest Austin neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>District 8<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/austin\/2026-10-15\/austin-tx-city-council-district-8-november-election\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read KUT\u2019s candidate profiles<\/a> to better understand where the candidates stand on pressing issues facing West and southwest Austin neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<p>District 9 <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/austincurrent.org\/2026\/10\/15\/austin-election-city-council-downtown-district-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read our candidate profiles<\/a> to better understand where the candidates stand on pressing issues facing Austin\u2019s downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/austincurrent.org\/author\/sam-stark\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cropped-2026-Sam-Stark-2-1x1-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Stark is Austin Current&#8217;s government reporter. He has been reporting in Austin for several years, most recently as a broadcast reporter at KXAN.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/austincurrent.org\/author\/sam-stark\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Sam Stark\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 election is days away, and more than 20 candidates are vying for five seats on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2137,132,134,133,5353,288,11213],"class_list":["post-479777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-2026-elections","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-campaign-finance","tag-elections","tag-texas-election-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479777","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=479777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}