San Antonio Election Roundup
Online Election Results for Bexar County
Well, a whopping 10.16% of us voted. That means my vote counted for 10 people.
Proposition 1 (constitutional amendment about school taxes and the elderly and disabled) passed 87% to 12% in Bexar County.
The vote for Emergency Services Districts 4 and 8 both passed with over 70% in favor
Hardberger is our Mayor still with a resounding 77% of the vote. Eiginio Rodriguez came in with only 6% of the vote.
District 1 council seat goes to Mary Alice Cisneros with 62% of the vote. kat swift came in a far second with almost 30%. I think she can do fine next time around if she isn’t on the ballot against a San Antonio dynasty type candidate.
San Antonio District 2 seat is Sheile D. McNeil with 68% of the vote.
District 3 council was not a big surprise. Roland Gutierrez wins unopposed as does Kevin Wolff in District 9.
In District 4 Phillip Cortez wins with 70%.
We will decide on June 12th who fills both the district 5 and the district 8 seats.
The council seat for district 6 goes to Delicia Herrera with 73%.
In San Antonio district 7 Justin Rodriguez beats out incumbant Elena Guajardo by 64%.
District 10 city council seat is John Clamp with 72%.
All of the city bonds passed as did the Northside ISD and Northeast ISD bonds.
BexarMet has new members with Blanche Atkinson, who received all $6,250 of her campaign contributions T.J. Connolly and five other members of his firm, Connolly & Company, and Debra Eaton, who wasn’t the candidate the T.J. Connolly was backing filling those slots.
Just outside San Antonio, New Braunfels voters recalled District 6 Councilman Ken Valentine.
Lots more across the state but it’s Mothers Day and I am going to go veg in front of sappy movies I don’t get to watch any other day.
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You know, you ought to point people to the Bexar County Elections Department web site http://www.bexar.org/elections/online/online.asp they can see that only about 80,000 people voted at all.
Of those, only about 70,000 bothered to cast a ballot for mayor, and Hardberger’s “overwhelming majority” came out to about 53,000 of those 70,000 votes. It’s much more painful, I think, to know that voter apathy resulted in Hardberger’s election (and the passing of all of the propositions, for that matter) than anything.
Hi Margarita,
I did point to the Bexar County Elections Department website. It is the first link at the very top of the post.
Bexar county stretches quite a bit beyond San Antonio and that would account for those you don’t see having voted for Mayor.I know that I cast my ballot in Bexar County but I didn’t have the option to vote for Mayor. I live a few blocks outside of San Antonio proper and there are quite a few of us in Bexar who wouldn’t have had the choice to vote for Mayor so I would probably guess that is the difference between the 86,000 who voted and the 70,000 who voted for mayor. If you look at the city of San Antonio bonds about 70,000 voted in those. 13,000 people didn’t go to the polls to not vote on those bonds, it just wasn’t an option for them. I would have loved to have voted for mayor and voted about the bonds but that wasn’t on everyone’s ballot. My ballot consisted of two items, a constitutional amendment and the NEISD Bond.
Don’t be in pain, there is quite a bit of voter apathy 10.1% is a pathetic number but while I am sure there were a few that might not have voted for mayor who live in San Antonio most of those votes you are looking at are from people like me who don’t live in San Antonio but live in Bexar County.
Thanks for the reply! I did not see the link at the top of your post. My apologies. As for the rest of what you said, I did not realize, but it makes sense, that just because you live in Bexar County, you might not live in San Antonio and would, therefore, not get to vote for mayor. Oof! But that means, too, that really only about 70,000 San Antonians voted, taking that 10.1% to about 5% for San Antonio. Bad, very bad.
Yes, the figures are horrible. I don’t know how to get more people out there to vote. I know I pulled my husband kicking and screaming to the polls but they don’t let me do that to the general population.