{"id":374829,"date":"2025-11-13T01:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/374829\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:29:15","slug":"dallas-council-shifts-election-dates-for-better-turnout-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/374829\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas council shifts election dates for better turnout \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas City Council voted 15-0 on Wednesday to move municipal elections from May to November of odd-numbered years.<\/p>\n

Citing dismal voter turnout during May municipal elections, and strong voter support of a similar question last fall, the Dallas City Council unanimously approved moving city elections to November in odd number years.<\/p>\n

The vote ends the practice of holding city elections in May, followed by a state election in November, as was done this year.<\/p>\n

Voter turnout for the municipal election on May 3<\/a>, which included 14 council members, was just over 8% according to Dallas County Elections.<\/a><\/p>\n

The election held on November 4, which included 17 proposed constitutional amendments, generated 16% turnout.<\/a><\/p>\n

District 1 council member Chad West said the vote will help Dallas move away from a ranking that finds the city either last or next to last in voter turnout for municipal elections among the 30 largest U.S. cities.<\/p>\n

“This is not about the 15 of us sitting here around the horseshoe; this is about making a system better for decades to come,” West said before the unanimous vote.<\/p>\n

State Representative Rafael Anchia, D -Dallas, who carried a bill in the Texas Legislature, which gave cities the option to move their elections, said the move is “not a silver bullet.”<\/p>\n

“We will go from abysmal turnout to just low turnout,\u201d Anchia said.<\/p>\n

The next city council and mayoral election will be in November 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas City Council voted 15-0 on Wednesday to move municipal elections from May to November of odd-numbered…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":374830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,90,358,146740,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-374829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-elections","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115539801961868597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}