El Paso, Texas city elections, 2017

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The 2017 El Paso city elections will be held in May 2017 to elect the Mayor and City Council of El Paso, Texas. Incumbent Mayor Oscar Leeser is eligible for another term, but announced in July 2016 he will not seek another term. Leeser had a cancer-related surgery in 2016, but states that his decision is not because of his health. Instead, it is because he "ran to do things I thought were really important for our community and I did that."^{[1] [2]}

The election is non-partisan; therefore there is no primary election. However, if no candidate wins a majority there will be a run-off election.^[3]

The mayor and council members elected in 2017 will serve through December 2020. The term is shortened because of a charter amendment to move city elections from May in odd-numbered years to November in even-numbered years.^[4]

Mayoral election

Candidates

• Emma Acosta (2008-present), city council representative^[5]
• Jorge Artalejo, perennial candidate^[6]
• Willie Cager, YISD basketball coach, director of the Willy Cager Foundation, and member of the 1966 UTEP Basketball team^[7]
• Dee Margo, former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives^[8]
• Ana Romero Zaidle, stay-at-home mother^[9]
• David Saucedo, owner of Saucedo Lock Company^[10]
• Charles Stapler, member of the El Paso County Historical Commission board^[11]

Potential candidates

• Ted Houghton, former chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission^[12]
• Dr. Michiel Noe, city council representative (2011-present)^[13]
• Cortney Niland, city council representative (2011-present)^[14]
• Eliot Shapleigh, former Democratic state senator (1997-2011)^[15]
• Silvestre Reyes, former U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district (1997-2013)^[16]
• Carl Robinson, city council representative (2009-present)^[17]

Declined candidates

• Estela Casas, KVIA news anchor^[18]
• Joe Wardy, former mayor of El Paso (2003-2005)^[19]
• Emma Schwartz, president and CEO of the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation^[20]

Results

City council election

Districts 2, 3, 4, and 7 will have elections in 2017. Emma Acosta, District 3 incumbent, and Carl Robinson, District 4 incumbent, are term limited and cannot run again. District 2 incumbent, Jim Tolbert, and District 7 incumbent, Lilia Limon, are eligible for re-elction.^[21]

Candidates

District 2

No candidates have yet filed in District 2.

Results

District 3

• Jaime Barceleau, charitable executive director for the Paso del Norte Children's Development Center^[22]
• Cassandra Hernandez-Brown, deputy director of Dynamic Workforce Solutions ^[23]

Results

District 4

• John Cook, former mayor (2005-2013) and former District 4 City Council representative (1999-2005) ^[24]
• Shane Haggerty, Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees president^[25]
• Sam Morgan, owner of El Paso Concealed Carry^[26]
• Diana Ramos^[27]

Results

District 7

No candidates have yet filed for District 7.

Results

References

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