Your feedback ensures we stay focused on the facts that matter to you most—take our survey.
Steve Lavine
2025 - Present
2027
0
Steve Lavine is a member of the Plano City Council in Texas, representing Place 5. He assumed office on May 12, 2025. His current term ends in 2027.
Lavine ran in a special election to the Plano City Council to represent Place 5 in Texas. He won in the special general election on May 3, 2025.
Biography
Steve Lavine was born in Chicago, Illinois. He earned bachelor's and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois in 1976 and 1977, respectively. He also attended the University of Oklahoma. Lavine's career experience includes working as an entrepreneur in online marketing research.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Plano, Texas (2025)
General election
Special general election for Plano City Council Place 5
Steve Lavine defeated Gary Cary in the special general election for Plano City Council Place 5 on May 3, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steve Lavine (Nonpartisan) | 57.7 | 10,925 |
| Gary Cary (Nonpartisan) | 42.3 | 8,015 | ||
| Total votes: 18,940 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Lavine in this election.
2021
See also: City elections in Plano, Texas (2021)
General election
General election for Plano City Council Place 2
Incumbent Anthony Ricciardelli defeated Steve Lavine in the general election for Plano City Council Place 2 on May 1, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Anthony Ricciardelli (Nonpartisan) | 52.8 | 17,477 |
| Steve Lavine (Nonpartisan) | 47.2 | 15,606 | |
| Total votes: 33,083 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
To view Lavine's endorsements in the 2021 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Steve Lavine did not complete Ballotpedia's 2025 Candidate Connection survey.
2021
Steve Lavine completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lavine's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
I believe his combination of experience and attention to the long-term success of our city make Steve Lavine the best candidate to maintain Plano as the City of Excellence.
LET’S KEEP PLANO SAFE We must continue to invest in our police and fire departments to keep our city one of the safest in America. My opponent is stripping away such investment, which will ultimately make Plano less safe.
- LET’S KEEP PLANO HEALTHY A healthy city is a prosperous city. I am committed to working to help Plano come out of this pandemic stronger than ever. My opponent voted against mandatory masks in retail and service businesses that keep customers and employees safe and businesses open.
- LET’S KEEP PLANO STRONG: We need to tackle our city’s maturity head on. As your City Council representative, I will fight to ensure that we continue investing in our libraries, recreation centers, public safety, and our neighborhoods.
Plano is an integral part of a regional transportation system and we must be prepared for the growth of cities to our North that will strain the highways through to Dallas and beyond. I will embrace forward-thinking mobility solutions to help ease congestion.
I am concerned about outside influences from extreme political groups pushing our City Council to make decisions that are not in Plano’s best interests. We need people on council who are practical and focused on Plano’s interests, not the demands of outside political groups.
“Plano is governed by the Council-Manager form of government where the Council sets City policy and the Manager is responsible for City operations. The City Council consists of the Mayor and seven City Council members, all of whom are elected at-large. The City Council works diligently to guide city staff to achieve Plano's mission as a regional and national municipal leader, providing outstanding services and facilities through cooperative efforts that engage our citizens and that contribute to the quality of life in our community.”
In other words, in a City Manager form of Government, the City Council represents the citizens and acts as a Board of Directors to hire the City Manager and provide him or her and their staff with guidance, monetary (appropriation and budgetary), statutory, and policy approvals as required. The council also appoints representatives to advisory and planning Boards and Commissions that work with various departments and responsibilities of the city to help facilitate the business of the city and advise the Council as required.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 9, 2021
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Shelby Williams |
Plano City Council Place 5 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
| |||||||||
