What you need to know about voting in the San Antonio city, school election in May 2021
San Antonio Mayor, 10 City Council seats, police collective bargaining rights proposition, proposed charter change on ballot
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SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio municipal election is slated for May 1, the first Saturday in May.
On the ballot will be a rematch between two mayoral candidates, all 10 city council seats, a proposition aimed at repealing the police department’s collective bargaining right and a proposed change to the City Charter.
We’ve collected everything you need to know about voting in the 2021 city election below. (Sumbit questions to candidates via KSAT here.)
The board is set: More than 80 candidates running for San Antonio mayor and City Council
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San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, left, and City Council District 6 member Greg Brockhouse shake hands at the end of a mayoral debate at the Wyndham Riverwalk on April 3, 2019. Nirenberg defeated Brockhouse in a runoff that year for a second term; there will be a rematch between the two men in the May 1 city elections.Jerry Lara /Staff photographer
The slate of candidates for San Antonio mayor and the city’s 10 council seats on the May 1 ballot is set.
After Friday’s deadline for filing, city records showed 81 people are running for a spot on the City Council in a race defined by the human and economic toll inflicted on the city by COVID-19 as well as a reckoning over the power of the San Antonio Police union in the wake of a public demand for law enforcement reform.