Government / Politics

NEISD incumbent unseated; trustees reelected in Alamo Heights, Medina Valley, Southwest ISD; SCUC bonds pass; Alamo Colleges runoff

Texas Public Radio | By TPR Staff

Published May 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM CDT

Polls close Saturday at 7 p.m. Results will update here throughout the evening. If they don’t appear, refresh the page. Races with only one candidate are not included.

Special improvement districts: Chasin Heights | Real Road | Sunshine Trails

Alamo Colleges District

The election to represent northeast Bexar County on the Alamo Colleges board of trustees is headed to a runoff. With four candidates in the race for single-member district 9, no one received a majority of the vote.

Incumbent trustee Leslie Sachanowicz did not receive enough votes to proceed to the runoff. Former Alamo Colleges trustee Joe Jesse Sanchez is also out of the race. Sachanowicz is an attorney who was elected to the Alamo Colleges board in 2020. Sanchez served from 2017 to 2020.

Accountant and Northwest Vista College alum Robert Garcia will face Palo Alto College professor emeritus Carolyn DeLecour in the June 13 runoff.

School Board Races

Four San Antonio-area school districts each had two board seats in contention this election. Incumbents prevailed in three of the four districts,, but the sole incumbent running for re-election in the North East Independent School District lost.

Alamo Heights ISD

Incumbents Ty Edwards and Hunter Kingman retained their seats on the Alamo Heights board of trustees. Lindsey Saldana and Bianca Cerqueira challenged them with the backing of the North East Bexar County Democrats, but were unable to break through.

Saldana is an assistant principal at Edgewood ISD and Cerqueira is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist. Edwards is a financial advisor and Kingman works in commercial real estate.

Medina Valley ISD

Incumbents Nathan Fillinger and Blane Nash won re-election for at-large seats in the growing Medina Valley school district that includes Castroville and pockets of far west Bexar County.

Fillinger works in information technology at USAA and Nash owns a construction business. Fillinger is the current board president.

Andrew Carawan, a former MVISD teacher and Toby Castillo Walters, an academic dean at Northside ISD, challenged Fillinger and Nash but lost.

Medina Valley has a large footprint covering nearly 300 square miles and enrolls about 10,500 students, but only a small fraction of eligible voters cast their ballots. As at-large seats, all Medina Valley voters were eligible to vote for both trustee seats. Less than 500 people did.

North East ISD

NEISD District 3 trustee Diane Sciba Villarreal was defeated by Mike Wulczyn, a U.S. Navy veteran and IT and risk management professional.

Marsha Landry, the incumbent for NEISD District 7, did not run for re-election. Caprice Garcia, a volunteer and former government employee was elected to the seat, defeating realtor Cheri Ettinger.

Sciba Villarreal was first elected in 2022 on a “parents rights” platform, a common conservative talking point. Republican state rep. Marc LaHood encouraged Ettinger to run for the NEISD board.

Wulczyn and Garcia were both backed by North East’s teachers unions and the North East Bexar County Democrats. Their election continues a shift in NEISD’s board makeup that began in 2024 towards a more moderate slate of trustees.

Southwest ISD

Current Southwest ISD trustees James Gonzalez and José Diaz retained their seats on the Southwest ISD school board, defeating former trustees Pete Bernal and Yolanda Garza-Lopez.

Bernal and Garza-Lopez lost their seats on the board to Gonzalez and Diaz in 2023 after bucking the will of the board majority to advocate for increasing voter access by adding SWISD to the countywide ballot. Historically SWISD has conducted elections in an unusual way that forced some voters to vote twice. SWISD joined the countywide ballot this year, but with no citywide, high-profile races on the ballot, turnout remained low.

SWISD enrolls about 14,500 students. Roughly 540 people cast ballots for SWISD’s school board this election. Because the races are at-large all registered voters living inside SWISD were eligible to vote.

Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD - Bond Election

Voters in the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District approved all three of the district’s bond propositions by comfortable margins, giving SCUC permission to take out $295 million in bonds to make improvements for its roughly 15,000 students.

Proposition A is $231 million for new school buses and campus renovations like secure entries, HVAC replacements, and roofs. Proposition B is $55 million to replace the stadium turf at Steele High School and Corbett Junior High and renovations at Lehnhoff Stadium including seating, safety, accessibility, and lighting. Proposition C is $9 million for new computers and tablets for students and staff.