{"id":769751,"date":"2026-05-03T05:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/769751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:20:13","slug":"updated-whatley-randklev-win-keller-city-council-seats-place-4-heads-to-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/769751\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Whatley, Randklev win Keller City Council seats, Place 4 heads to runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated May 2, 11:18 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All voting centers have now reported votes in Tarrant County and unofficial results show Russ Medeiros in the lead for Place 4 seat in Keller City Council, Chris Whatley will remain in the Place 5 seat and voters favored Charles Randklev for the Place 6 seat.<\/p>\n

According to the unofficial early voting totals released from the Tarrant County Elections Office website, Medeiros secured 2,560 votes, or 41.75% of the votes tallied. Whatley has 3,615 votes, which makes up 58.91% of voters counted, and Randklev has 2,650 votes, which is 62.95% of votes.<\/p>\n

Since no candidate for the Place 4 seat received more than 50% of the votes, the top two candidates, Medeiros and Jarrett Armstrong will go into a runoff election on June 13.<\/p>\n

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

Posted May 2, 7:15 p.m., <\/strong><\/p>\n

Unofficial results show Russ Medeiros is leading for the Keller City Council Place 4 seat, Chris Whatley is currently ahead for the Place 5 seat, and Charles Randklev is in the lead for the Place 6 seat.<\/p>\n

According to the unofficial early voting totals released from the Tarrant County Elections Office website, Medeiros has secured 1,792 votes, or 43% of the votes tallied so far. Whatley has 2,529 votes, which makes up 60% of voters counted so far, and Randklev has 2,650 votes, which is 63% of current votes.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Three Keller City Council seats are up for election May 2.<\/p>\n

Elda Rata, Jarrett Armstrong and Medeiros are competing for the Place 4<\/a> seat.<\/p>\n

Incumbent Whatley goes up against Ned Brown and Ashley Stone Hernandez for the Place 5<\/a> seat.<\/p>\n

Zane Kupper and Randklev are vying for the Place 6<\/a> seat on Keller City Council.<\/p>\n

The breakdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Totals from Tarrant County ballots cast May 2 have yet to be released. Polls closed at 7 p.m., although voters who were in line at 7 p.m. were still able to cast ballots.<\/p>\n

During the early voting period, 52,732 residents cast ballots, while 6,480 returned ballots by mail, according to county election data. The turnout was 4.49% of the county\u2019s registered voters.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n

Visit https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\/ <\/a>to see results from all local elections in your community.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated May 2, 11:18 p.m. All voting centers have now reported votes in Tarrant County and unofficial results…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":769752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,315636,158357,11125,204777,300397,313669,270482,8988,7371,7372,315638,147762,315634,289259,315635,232354,315632,315633,315639,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,333,315637],"class_list":["post-769751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-ashley-stone-hernandez","tag-ballots","tag-candidates","tag-charles-randklev","tag-chris-whatley","tag-city-election","tag-elda-rata","tag-election","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-jarrett-armstrong","tag-keller-city-council","tag-local-election","tag-may-2-election","tag-ned-brown","tag-place-5","tag-place-6","tag-place-7","tag-russ-medeiros","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-voting","tag-zane-kupper"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116508965934586002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769751","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=769751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}