A pre-pandemic photo of the current San Antonio City Council in September 2019.
The entire San Antonio City Council is up for election this year, and voters will head to the polls next month when early voting begins.
Voters elect a full City Council, including the mayor, every other May. Election Day will be Saturday, May 1, and there are 81 candidates on the ballot. Fourteen of those candidates — including incumbent Ron Nirenberg — are running for mayor, and two of the ten council district seats will be represented by entirely new faces.
Incumbents will have to commend and defend the actions of the city taken over the year as it responded to COVID-19, protests against racial injustice, and the still-lingering impacts of the energy crisis and winter storm last month. Challengers will attempt to convince voters their visions may be a better fit for the city.