{"id":459506,"date":"2016-03-02T16:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=459506"},"modified":"2016-03-03T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T22:35:00","slug":"time-to-look-ahead-to-runoff-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=459506","title":{"rendered":"Time to Look Ahead to Runoff Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/voting-computer.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-459009\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/03\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"voting-computer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-459009\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS &#8211; Now that the primary election is in the books, most candidates are now focusing on the general election in November. But several candidates have a more immediate challenge, and that is a May 24th runoff election. Still to be decided is who will be the Republican nominee for Senate District One. That spot became open when Senator Kevin Eltife announced his retirement. State Representative Bryan Hughes led the race. But he did not end up with a majority. He will face David Simpson in May. Third in the race was James \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Red\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Brown. He&#8217;s only 13 votes behind Simpson.  He&#8217;s still holding out hope that provisional ballots will propel him past Simpson and into the runoff.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Hughes running for the senate, that creates an opening in State Representative District 5. Winning spots in the May runoff is Smith County businessman Jay Misenheimer and former Upshur County Commissioner Cole Hefner.<\/p>\n<p> Also, Incumbent Precinct 4 Constable John Smith is in a runoff with Josh Joplin.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting in the run off elections in Monday, May 16th. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8211; Now that the primary election is in the books, most candidates are now focusing on the general election in November. But several candidates have a more immediate challenge, and that is a May 24th runoff election. Still to be decided is who will be the Republican nominee for Senate District One. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=459506\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to Look Ahead to Runoff Elections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":459009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 05:22:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459510,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459506\/revisions\/459510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/459009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}