{"id":706361,"date":"2026-04-05T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/706361\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:58:19","slug":"update-see-early-voting-results-for-the-houston-city-council-district-c-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/706361\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: See early voting results for the Houston City Council, District C special election"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated 11:04 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With 20 of 20 voting centers reporting, Joe Panzarella and Nick Hellyar are headed to a runoff after neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the District C special election.<\/p>\n

Panzarella led the race with 33.34% of votes, or 3,131 votes. However, Hellyar received 22.54% of the vote, or 2,117 votes, according to the Harris County Clerk’s Office.<\/p>\n

As of April 4, a date for the runoff has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n

Posted April 4 at 7:40 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early voting results show that Joe Panzarella is leading in the special election for the Houston City Council, District C position.<\/p>\n

The Fourth Ward Superneighborhood president has garnered 2,042 votes, or 31.69% of votes, according to the Harris County Clerk\u2019s Office. Currently, 0 of the 20 voting centers in the election have reported full results.<\/p>\n

Opponent Nick Hellyar trails behind Panzarella, with 1,567 votes, or 24.32% of the votes. Fellow candidate Audrey Nath also has more than 1,000 votes, but trails further behind the top two vote-getters with only 1,202 votes, or 18.66% of the vote.<\/p>\n

All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/strong><\/p>\n

The District C seat on City Council became up for grabs in early 2026 after former council member Abbie Kamin announced her intentions to run for Harris County attorney.<\/a><\/p>\n

The district is a densely populated urban area that represents over 215,000 residents and covers the Heights, Washington Avenue, Montrose, Rice Village and Meyerland neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

During the early voting perio<\/a>d, approximately 6,408 residents cast their ballots in person and via mail. However, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth said that portion represents only 3.8% of voters, since there are 168,539 registered voters in District C.<\/p>\n

Meet the candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n

The seven candidates running in the race received six questions from Community Impact in March about their top priorities and views on budget planning, transportation plans and city services.<\/p>\n

To read more about each candidate and see their responses, visit Community Impact’s Q&A.<\/a><\/p>\n

Something to note<\/strong><\/p>\n

The winner of the race will serve on City Council until January 2028.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 11:04 p.m. With 20 of 20 voting centers reporting, Joe Panzarella and Nick Hellyar are headed to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[11125,28577,270963,294311,8988,4345,51079,50,6176,358,3187,20812,294678],"class_list":["post-706361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-candidates","tag-community-impact","tag-district-c","tag-district-c-special-election","tag-election","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-news","tag-race","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-update","tag-who-is-winning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116351749858384391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706361","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=706361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}