Gun Barrel City council certifies May election results with low turnout
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Summary
The Gun Barrel City Council adopted an ordinance canvassing the May 4 election results for three council seats, reporting 319 ballots cast and an estimated turnout of 6.7 percent of about 4,700 registered voters.
The Gun Barrel City Council on May 12 adopted an ordinance canvassing the returns of the May 4 election and declared winners for Council Place 1 (East side), Place 3 (West side) and Place 5 (at-large).
City Secretary Janet Dillard read vote totals to the council and reported that Council Place 3 received 167 votes for one candidate and Council Place 5 received 178 votes for Robert Evers; there were 319 ballots cast and roughly 4,700 registered voters, which Dillard said represented a turnout of about 6.7 percent.
The canvass ordinance, O-2025-006, was moved and seconded on the council floor and adopted by unanimous recorded vote. Councilmembers recorded as voting “yes” were Burns, Evans, Jacobs and Carson. No public contest of the returns was recorded during the meeting.
Under Texas Government Code section 551.007, the meeting’s citizen-communications rules were read at the start of the special meeting; members of the public were permitted to speak for up to three minutes but the council took no action on public-comment items outside the agenda.
Janet Dillard delivered the numerical summary during the citizen communications portion of the meeting. No further discussion or challenges to the canvass results were entered on the record. After the ordinance passed, the council moved on to other business and adjourned the special meeting.
The council did not set or announce an effective date for the canvass ordinance during the meeting.
