{"id":445439,"date":"2025-12-14T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445439\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T01:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:10:16","slug":"alejandra-salinas-and-dwight-boykins-face-off-in-runoff-for-houston-city-council-seat-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445439\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandra Salinas and Dwight Boykins face off in runoff for Houston City Council seat \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/city-of-houston\/2025\/11\/04\/534848\/houston-city-council-special-election-day-2025\/attachment\/salinas-boykins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-535089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Salinas-Boykins-1000x750.jpeg\" alt=\"Alejandra Salinas Dwight Boykins\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Provided<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Voters in the city of Houston can cast their ballots Saturday in the runoff election to fill a vacant at-large seat on the Houston City Council. <\/p>\n<p>Progressive trial attorney Alejandra Salinas came out on top of the 15-field candidate field in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/city-of-houston\/2025\/11\/04\/534848\/houston-city-council-special-election-day-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov. 4 special election<\/a>, closely followed by Dwight Boykins, the moderate former District D city council member. <\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>The two are vying to fill the seat of council member Letitia Plummer, who&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/politics\/2025\/07\/08\/525895\/houston-city-council-member-letitia-plummer-announces-run-for-harris-county-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepping down to run for Harris County judge<\/a> in 2026. Plummer declined to endorse either candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive urbanist Jordan Thomas, the third-place finisher in the November election, also declined to make an endorsement. <\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/city-of-houston\/2025\/12\/05\/537890\/anger-could-sway-the-houston-city-council-runoff-as-election-day-approaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>\u2018Anger&#8217; could sway the Houston City Council runoff as election day approaches<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Political pundits expected progressives&#8217; anger with President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, coupled with their frustration over the perceived impotence of Democratic party leadership, to give Salinas an edge in the contest. <\/p>\n<p>She also has a significant financial advantage. As of her last campaign finance report on Dec. 5, she had raised more than $700,000 in campaign contributions. As of his last filing in October, Boykins had received about $140,000. <\/p>\n<p>Some voters will also cast ballots in a runoff election for a Houston City College trustee position. Incumbent Renee Jefferson Patterson faces a challenge from Kathleen \u201cKathy\u201d Lynch Gunter.<\/p>\n<p>Voting runs from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisvotes.com\/Vote-Centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">156 polling locations<\/a> across Harris County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided Voters in the city of Houston can cast their ballots Saturday in the runoff election to fill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[147457,10882,147458,90,205151,4345,51079,75976,205152,425,50,80,358,3187,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-445439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-alejandra-salinas","9":"tag-city-of-houston","10":"tag-dwight-boykins","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-harris-county-voting","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-city-council","15":"tag-houston-city-council-election","16":"tag-houston-runoff-election","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-tx","22":"tag-voting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115715258895046213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445439","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=445439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}