Another election season come and gone, and it looks like the two cities with the most contested races were McAllen and San Juan, which was pretty much a given considering that at least seven seats had more than two candidates in contention.
For an all-time record, the city of McAllen had five candidates running for mayor. Hard to garner 50 percent of the votes plus one to avoid a runoff with that many in the field. Meaning, Jim Darling can’t lay down his mayoral gavel just yet after serving two terms; the first with no competition. School districts don’t have that ...