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In 2022, Harlingen voters pushed the city's May elections to November as part of the past commission's plan to boost voter turnout. Across the city's five single-member voting districts ...
Jul. 9—HARLINGEN — Amid some of the city's most heated debates in years, the commission's new majority's going ahead with plans to give voters a chance to set term limits while capping the ...
Aug. 6—HARLINGEN — Voters are going to get a chance to decide whether to set term limits on the mayor's and commissioners' tenures in office. Tense confrontations marked the four-hour meeting ...
Harlingen is governed by a mayor elected at-large and a five-member city commission representing five individual single-member districts. All seats are eligible for election every three years. The current mayor is Norma Sepulveda, who was elected in 2022.
Texas's location in the American South and largely in the greater Bible Belt has given the Republican Party the upper hand in the state in recent decades. [89] Trump received the most raw votes for a political candidate ever in Texas, breaking his own record from 2020 by over 500,000. The Democratic vote total fell by 425,000 between 2020 and 2024.
In addition to cities and counties, Texas has numerous special districts. As with municipal elections in Texas, board members or trustees are elected on a nonpartisan basis or may be appointed. The most common is the independent school district, which (with one exception) has a board of trustees that is independent of any other governing ...
Jul. 19—HARLINGEN — After nearly 100 years, Harlingen's mayor might be getting a vote on the city commission. In November, voters will decide the fate of the proposed City Charter amendment ...
The 2024 Texas's 18th congressional district special election was a special election that was held on November 5, 2024, [1] to choose a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The seat became vacant when incumbent Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee died on July 19, 2024.