Updated June 11 at 8:07 p.m.
With all election day votes in for the city of Conroe runoff elections, Harry Hardman has won the race for Conroe City Council Place 3, according to unofficial results from Montgomery County. Hardman garnered 61.02% of the votes cast, or 1,462 votes.
Opponent John Hernandez followed with 934 votes, according to the county elections office.
Hardman could not immediately be reached for comment June 11, but in a phone interview June 12, Hardman said he hopes to bring his experience as president of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District—a position he will resign as he is sworn into City Council—to help the city achieve sustainable growth.
"What I want to see from Conroe and Council is we need to do strategic, sustainable growth in our community. The biggest asset that we have and the key differentiator we have from other community is our natural beauty. I want us to do everything we can do to preserve that while still growing at a sustainable pace, because as the [soon to be] former president of Lone Star [Groundwater Conservation District], I understand the importance of water conservation, straining all the infrastructure. It's very difficult when you're growing at the pace we have been to keep up from an infrastructure perspective," Hardman said in an interview. "I want us to grow at a sustainable rate, be strategic about the investments we make, and to make Conroe the most desirable place to the live, not necessarily the fastest growing."
In the race for Conroe municipal judge, William Waggoner received 1,326 votes, or 56.16% of ballots cast, to opponent Meloney Turner's 1,035 votes, according to unofficial results.
All results are unofficial until canvassed.
Posted June 11 at 7:37 p.m.
Harry Hardman is leading the election for Conroe City Council Place 3 in the June 11 runoff election against John Hernandez, according to unofficial early voting election results from the Montgomery County Elections Office.
Hardman received 64.45% of early and absentee votes, or 1,204 votes, to Hernandez' 664 votes, according to county tallies.
The two candidates headed to a runoff election after none of the five candidates in the May 7 local election received at least 51% of the votes. Hardman led the May 7 election with 44.73% of votes at the time, according to previous reporting.
Community Impact Newspaper previously reported in April that Hardman is the president of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District and the senior vice president of SalesTalk Technologies.
Hernandez is a business owner, according to previous reporting.
Municipal judge
The city's municipal judge race is also on the June 11 ballot after none of the five candidates received more than 51% of votes in the May 7 election.
William Waggoner, a U.S. Marine Corps. veteran and emergency medicine and Army Reserves medic, is leading the race for the municipal judge seat with early results in for the June 11 runoff. Waggoner received 998 early and absentee votes, or 54.18% of votes, to Meloney Turner's 844 votes, according to unofficial early voting results from Montgomery County.
All results are unofficial until canvassed.
