Garden Ridge’s May 2 election changed three seats after 596 ballots put Kelly Smith, Jim Hunter and Brian Reyes atop the published totals; the May 11 record then called for canvass, certificates and oaths.
Garden Ridge voters filled three City Council seats in an election that drew 596 ballots from 3,725 registered voters, a 16% turnout. That figure measures participation across the city’s single reporting precinct, not the share of voters who marked every council race.
Smith received 478 votes unopposed; Hunter received 360 votes to Jesús Valdez’s 234; and Reyes received 391 votes to Chance Boughamer’s 185. Hunter’s share was 60.61% of votes cast in Place 4, while Reyes received 67.88% in Place 5, according to the packet’s cumulative results.
The turnout report divides the 596 ballots into 27 absentee ballots, 430 early-voting ballots and 139 Election Day ballots. The race-by-race totals differ because the packet records 118 undervotes in Place 1, two in Place 4 and 20 in Place 5. It records no overvotes in those races.
The packet’s election-result pages carry the label Unofficial Results. The May 11 agenda supplies the procedural bridge: item 4.1 called for the council to canvass the May 2 result and declare it, and item 4.2 called for certificates and oaths for Smith, Hunter and Reyes. That sequence matters because a posted tally and a council canvass are different stages of the election record.