It’s a nail-biter in the Fort Worth City Council District 10 special election
Business owner Chris Jamieson narrowly leads former City Council district director Alicia Ortiz in the May 2 special election to replace outgoing District 10 council member Alan Blaylock.
Jamieson has 50.01% compared to 49.99% for Ortiz, according to early unofficial results from Tarrant, Denton and Wise Counties.
Jamieson is leading by four votes, according to early unofficial vote totals from the three counties.
Blaylock, who joined the council in 2022 (replacing Ortiz’s former boss Cary Moon), is leaving the council to run for the Texas House District 93 seat.
District 10’s boundary wraps around the city of Haslet and bumps up against Fort Worth’s northern city limits. Its southern limit is largely bounded by Golden Triangle Boulevard east of Interstate 35W and Big Fossil Creek west of the interstate.
Both candidates have placed a premium on building the district’s roads, particularly west of the interstate where the area is still largely intersected by farm to market roads built for the area’s agrarian past.
Jamieson, who lives west of the interstate in the Willow Ridge Estates, said in an interview with the Star-Telegram editorial board it sometimes takes 20 minutes to 30 minutes for police and fire to respond to emergency calls.
He praised efforts by the city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County to improve traffic on Bonds Ranch Road, but said that work has largely been reactive to the massive development the area has experienced.
Ortiz noted in the same interview that many of the roads in the western half of the district are bounded by soft shoulders and bar ditches, making it hard for emergency vehicles to turn around and navigate past traffic.
Residents sometimes get told to call Roanoke for emergency situations and that is not acceptable, she said.
She said she would develop partnerships with nearby cities to improve east-west thoroughfares like Avondale-Haslet Road.
Whoever wins will serve out the remainder of Blaylock’s term until May 2027, when they may choose to run for a full two-year term.
This story was originally published May 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM.
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