{"id":81528,"date":"2025-12-09T10:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81528\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:19:20","slug":"report-san-antonio-mayor-jones-wants-to-move-municipal-elections-from-may-to-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81528\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: San Antonio Mayor Jones wants to move municipal elections from May to November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-531007676-640x400.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Report: San Antonio Mayor Jones wants to move municipal elections from May to November\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tA hand casting a vote in a ballot box for an election in the Texas, USA\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 The Mayor of San Antonio wants to move the city\u2019s municipal elections from May to November.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/article\/news\/local\/san-antonio-mayor-pushes-move-city-elections-may-november-san-antonio\/273-1ebdd9cb-c1bc-403a-86ec-064a73688318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KENS 5<\/a>, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones says the move would not only increase voter turnout, it would also save up to 1 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor has sent an outline of the plan to city council members, who would need to approve the move by the end of the year in order to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>Other large cities in Texas, including Dallas, Houston and Austin hold their municipal elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>City officials will have a discussion on the mayor\u2019s proposal at 1:30 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hand casting a vote in a ballot box for an election in the Texas, USA SAN ANTONIO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2112,39586,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-81528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-gina-ortiz-jones","tag-municipal-elections","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81528","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=81528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}