Twelve candidates remain in Jackson’s 2025 City Council races. Voters will decide five seats in the June 3 general election.

Former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner has won the Democratic nomination to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), making Turner her likely successor next year in the heavily Democratic ...

Democrats selected former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) to serve as the party’s nominee for the November election to succeed the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). Turner prevailed in ...

HOUSTON — The race for Houston mayor headed to a runoff Tuesday night between U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire, two Democrats who breezed past a wide field of candidates ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has filed to run for reelection to her House seat following her defeat in the Saturday runoff election for mayor of Houston. Jackson Lee announced her decision to ...

Jackson Lee lost to Houston mayor-elect John Whitmire in Saturday's runoff. Fresh off her loss to John Whitmire in the Houston mayoral race, Sheila Jackson Lee has filed to run for re-election in ...

After badly losing a runoff election over the weekend in a bid to become Houston’s first Black female mayor, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) filed paperwork with Democrats in Texas indicating ...

*(CNN) — Texas state Sen. John Whitmire will be the next mayor of Houston, CNN projects, after winning a runoff Saturday over US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to lead the country’s fourth-largest ...

After her mayoral defeat, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has made her decision on reelection or retirement. Now, she'll face a former council member who endorsed her for mayor.

HOUSTON — Houston has elected Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire as its next mayor, elevating a Texas lawmaker who has represented the city for 50 years over U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in a ...

As the city of Houston headed into the final week before the runoff election for mayor, an ad for Jackson Lee, had urged city residents to "vote on or before December 7th." ...