(a) 
The city shall hold a regular city election, also called general election, every year on the first Saturday of April; provided that the council by ordinance may change the regular election to the first Tuesday in April, and vice versa. The mayor and other councilmen shall be the only city officers elected by the qualified voters of the city.
(b) 
The four councilmen other than the mayor shall serve in specific places on the council designated as places 1, 2, 3, and 4.
(c) 
At the election in every even-numbered year, the mayor, the councilman for place 2, and the councilman for place 4 shall be elected.
(d) 
At the election in every odd-numbered year, the councilman for place 1 and the councilman for place 3 shall be elected.
(e) 
The mayor and other councilmen shall serve for terms of two years and until their respective successors are elected and qualify. Their terms shall begin on the fifth day after the day of their election, Sunday excepted. If a mayor-elect or other councilman-elect fails to qualify within one month after the beginning of his term, his office shall become vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled as other vacancies in the council are filled.
(f) 
The mayor and other councilmen shall be elected at large, by the qualified voters of the entire city.
(g) 
Elections shall be nonpartisan, and no party designation or emblem shall be placed on the ballots.
(h) 
Nothing in this charter shall prohibit the use of voting machines.
Any qualified person may have his name placed on the ballot for the election as a candidate for mayor or other councilman by filing, not more than forty-five (45) days and at least thirty (30) days prior to the election, with the city secretary a sworn application to have his name placed on the ballot, specifying the office for which he is filing. Such application shall also contain a statement by the candidate that he is fully qualified under the laws of this state and this charter for the office which he seeks.
At an election, every qualified voter of the city shall be entitled to vote for one candidate for each office to be filled. The candidate for an office receiving the greatest number of votes shall be elected. In case of a tie between two or more candidates receiving the greatest number of votes, the election shall be determined in the manner provided by the election laws of the State of Texas.
The council shall appoint the election judges and other election personnel for all city elections, regular and special, unless it delegates this power to the city secretary. The city secretary shall have such powers and duties relating to elections as the council may prescribe.
The election judges shall deliver the election returns of every municipal election, regular or special, forthwith to the council or to the city secretary or the mayor for transmittal to the council. The council shall meet within four days after every municipal election, Sunday excepted, to receive the returns, and shall immediately canvass the returns and declare the results of the election.
The council shall be the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members.
The council by ordinance may call special elections and fix the time thereof; and may submit to the qualified voters of the city, at regular and special elections, questions and matters in accordance with this charter and general state law.
All municipal elections, regular and special, shall be governed by the laws of the state regulating the holding of municipal elections insofar as they are applicable and in accordance with ordinances which the council may pass regulating such elections.
(a) 
No officer or employee of the city except the mayor and other councilmen and also personnel who receive no compensation for their services, may work for or against, or attempt to influence, the nomination, election, or defeat of any candidate for mayor or other councilman, or the recall of the mayor or other councilman; but this shall not prohibit the ordinary exercise of one’s right to express his opinions and to vote.
(b) 
Violation of the above subsection shall constitute cause for removal from office or employment, and it is the duty of the officer or authority having power of removal to remove any officer or employee violating the above subsection.