{"id":87377,"date":"2025-12-14T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/87377\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T05:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:15:10","slug":"josh-paselk-holds-early-lead-in-san-marcos-city-council-place-2-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/87377\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Paselk holds early lead in San Marcos City Council Place 2 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated 9:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>With 100% of the precincts reporting, unofficial early polling results show Josh Paselk remains ahead with 54.5% of votes.<\/p>\n<p>Posted: 7:33 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>San Marcos voters are deciding on the City Council Place 2 runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial early election results show Josh Paselk in the lead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765689310_275_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"table visualization\"\/>For more information on the candidates, see <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/election\/2025\/09\/19\/meet-the-san-marcos-city-council-place-2-candidates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it<\/p>\n<p>Early voting showed that 4,225 ballots were cast, out of 84,996 registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>Polls closed at 7 p.m.; voters who were in line at 7 p.m. were still able to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>What else? <\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will update this article as more Election Day vote totals are tallied. All results are unofficial until canvassed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 9:10 p.m. With 100% of the precincts reporting, unofficial early polling results show Josh Paselk remains ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4519,409,2427,7837,2428],"class_list":{"0":"post-87377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-city-council","12":"tag-election","13":"tag-hays-county","14":"tag-runoff-election","15":"tag-san-marcos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87377","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=87377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}