Overview
- Final election night totals in Harris County show Alejandra Salinas with 21.9% and Dwight Boykins with 21.0%, with Jordan Thomas at 16%.
- No candidate reached a majority in the 15-person field, sending the top two to a Dec. 13 head-to-head to fill the open at-large seat.
- Salinas led the field in fundraising with more than $500,000 and drew major labor support, while Boykins leaned on prior council experience and selective endorsements.
- A Houston Chronicle analysis found Salinas won 274 precincts to Boykins’ 243, and it noted Boykins performed strongly in areas overlapping Congressional District 18, whose runoff date remains unset.
- Campaign contrasts centered on city services, infrastructure and flood mitigation, with an added dispute over AI-written website language that Boykins acknowledged using while denying plagiarism.