{"id":493345,"date":"2016-05-23T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=493345"},"modified":"2016-05-24T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T22:00:01","slug":"runoff-elections-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=493345","title":{"rendered":"Runoff Elections  Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/voting-computer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/05\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"voting-computer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-489916\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Voters around the area will be going to the polls today to decide some runoff elections. Two candidates are seeking to succeed Senator Kevin Eltife, who did not seek re-election. State Representatives Bryan Hughes of Mineola and David Simpson of Longview are on the ballot. In the Texas House District 5 race, the runoff to succeed Hughes is Jay Misenheimer of Lindale and Cole Hefner of Mount Pleasant. In the race for Smith County Constable, Precinct 4, it&#8217;s incumbent John Smith challenged by Josh Joplin. And in the race for place 9 on the State Board of Education, it&#8217;s Mary Lou Bruner, who lives in northern Smith County, and Kevin Ellis of Lufkin on the ballot. You&#8217;ll be able to follow the returns at KTBB.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Voters around the area will be going to the polls today to decide some runoff elections. Two candidates are seeking to succeed Senator Kevin Eltife, who did not seek re-election. State Representatives Bryan Hughes of Mineola and David Simpson of Longview are on the ballot. In the Texas House District 5 race, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=493345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Runoff Elections  Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":489916,"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-493345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 01:23:37","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\/493345","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=493345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493663,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493345\/revisions\/493663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/489916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}