Houston School Election Results 2021: Runoff For 4 HISD Races

Houston TX

02 November, 2021

8:06 PM

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HOUSTON, TX — Four Houston ISD Board of Trustee races are heading to a runoff, and Alief ISD voters approved three of four bond propositions in Tuesday's school district elections. With 100 percent of Harris County precincts reporting, Houston ISD Position 9 Trustee Myrna Guidry won re-election, but four incumbents are headed to runoffs after stiff competition from challengers. In the Position 7 race, Bridget Wade received more votes than incumbent Anne Sung but didn't reach the required majority. Other runoffs include incumbent Elizabeth Santos against Janette Garza Lindner for Position 1, incumbent Sue Deigaard against Caroline Walter for Position 5 and incumbent Holly Flynn Vilaseca against Kendall Baker for Position 6. Live in Houston? Click here to subscribe to our free breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox and mobile devices. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and download our free mobile app on Android or iPhone. Alief ISD voters approved three of four bond propositions totaling over $500 million. Proposals for school buildings, athletics facilities and technology improvements were passed. In the Alief school board races, Board Vice President Darlene Breaux and Trustee Jennifer Key won re-election, and Gregg Patrick won the Position 7 seat. Donald Guillory and Harvey Anh Tong will head to a runoff for Position 5. In Aldine ISD, Connie Esparza won re-election, and a pair of incumbents will have runoffs. Rose Avalos will face challenger Nico Mathews for Position 3, while Steve Mead will run against challenger Manny Guerrero for Position 5. Results were delayed until late Tuesday because of an outage at the Harris County Elections' counting center. "The machines are sensitive to any interference, so to ensure the integrity of the computers we conducted a full logic and accuracy test, which takes about two hours," the Harris County Elections administration said in a Facebook post. "Though we want to get the results out quickly, we prioritize processing everything accurately even if it takes some extra time." Voters also cast their ballots for or against eight Texas Constitutional Amendment propositions. Here are the statewide results. For more races in the Houston metro, click here. Houston ISD Voter Totals Trustee Position 1 Elizabeth Santos: 3,919Matias Kopinsky: 2,220Janette Garza Lindner: 3,304 Trustee Position 5 Maria Benzon: 2,267Sue Deigaard: 7,841Caroline Walter: 5,779 Trustee Position 6 Kendall Baker: 3,208Holly Flynn Vilaseca: 3,389Greg Degeyter: 1,402 Trustee Position 7 Lee "Mac" Walker: 2,901Bridget Wade: 6,075Dwight Jefferson: 409Anne Sung: 5,444 Trustee Position 9 Gerry Monroe: 1,786Joshua Ryan Rosales: 1,352Myrna Guidry: 4,813 Aldine ISD Voter Totals Trustee Position 3 Nico S. Mathews: 1,944Jimmy Morales: 861Rose M. Avalos: 2,245 Trustee Position 4 Conception "Connie" Esparza: 3,049Zaheer Malik: 1,890 Trustee Position 5 Emmanuel "Manny" Guerrero: 1,608Steve Mead: 1,912Donald Jones: 1,551 Alief ISD Voter Totals Trustee Position 4 Darlene Breaux: 3,507Debby Pepper: 1,649 Trustee Position 5 Randal Stewart: 1,352Donald Murphy Guillory: 1,541Harvey Anh Tong: 2,395 Trustee Position 6 Jennifer Key: 3,359Ronald "RB" Franklin: 1,732 Trustee Position 7 Gregg Patrick: 2,911Damon Barone: 2,226 Proposition A — The issuance of $482,585,000 bonds for the construction, acquisition and renovation of school buildings, the purchase of sites necessary for school buildings and new school buses. Property tax increase. For: 3,783Against: 2,451 Proposition B — The issuance of $9,095,000 bonds for the construction, renovation and acquisition of athletic facilities and related improvements and equipment. Property tax increase. For: 3,115Against: 3,069 Proposition C — The issuance of $19,430,000 bonds for the construction, renovation, improvements and equipment of Crump Stadium. Property tax increase. For: 2,913Against: 3,273 Proposition D — The issuance of $30,590,000 bonds for the acquisition, installation and update of technology equipment. Property tax increase. For: 3,563Against: 2,625 Houston Community College Voter Totals Trustee District 3 Brandon "B.D." Cofield Sr.: 2,257Adriana Tamez: 2,837 Trustee District 8 Victor Gonzales: 1,586Eva Loredo: 3,954Jharrett Bryantt: 3,369