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Texas Elected Officials & 2026 Candidates

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2026 elections & officials.

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40federal offices
39federal holders
178state legislators
3942026 filings
272active or funded

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Texas
Voter registration guideOfficial registration options ↗Find my polling placeOfficial locations and hours ↗Deadlines and rulesCheck your state’s sources →

Election Day hours: 7 a.m.–7 p.m. local time

Dates for November 3

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Partial coverage: only the dated entries below have been checked. Confirm other deadlines and exceptions with your election office.

Texas · Sourced election dates
ActionDateDetails and source
Register by mail
Passed		Registration application postmark or receipt deadline
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Register in person
Passed		Registration application receipt deadline
Official source ↗
Early voting begins
Passed		Early voting begins
Official source ↗
Early voting ends
9 days left		Early voting ends
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Request mail ballot
2 days left		Eligible voters: ballot-by-mail application must be received by the clerk; not merely postmarked
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Return ballot
13 days left		In-person return by 7 p.m.; domestic mailed ballots postmarked by 7 p.m. may arrive by 5 p.m. November 4. Overseas and military deadlines differ.
Official source ↗

Identification: Acceptable photo ID required, with a supporting-ID and Reasonable Impediment Declaration option when eligible. Check the official exceptions and expiration rules. Official rules ↗

Regular registration closes October 5. New registration requires printing and delivering the application; an online form alone does not register you. Source ↗

Checked 2026-10-11. Confirm local details and exceptions with your election office.

Election administration · official links

Secretary of State

County Clerk, County Elections Administrator administer elections across 254 reported local jurisdictions. Get the source profile, registration guide, rules, and calendar.

Statewide executive · current sourced record

Governor of Texas

A permanent office record joined to the current holder and official government website.

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas
Governor

Greg Abbott

Current roster matched to the official office website

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Current delegation

Who represents Texas in Washington?

Each link opens the permanent seat record—not a temporary biography—so history survives elections and vacancies.

Current state legislature · sourced public records

178 current legislators across 179 permanent offices

Open States supplies the normalized roster. When one of its contact or portrait fields is empty, Electionpedia can fill that gap only from a name-matched official legislative page and keeps the source attached to that individual field.

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Official 2026 congressional calendar

Texas election dates

Dates below are transcribed from the Federal Election Commission's published congressional calendar. They are subject to change and should be confirmed with Texas's election authority.

Congressional primaryMar 3, 2026

Runoff, if required: May 26, 2026

Federal general electionNov 3, 2026

Nationwide scheduled date

The FEC publishes this calendar but does not administer elections or determine ballot access. Verify the FEC calendar PDF ↗
Local elected officials

18 permanent local office records across 1 directory

Each directory is published only after its official roster passes a locality-specific completeness contract. Address lookup assigns a district only where Electionpedia also has a supported official boundary.

Official local roster

Houston elected officials

18 source-linked permanent office records, including all 11 council districts.

Browse Houston records
2026 federal field

394 FEC candidate records for Texas

Candidate filing does not guarantee ballot qualification. Financial totals appear only where the FEC bulk summary publishes them.

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How the page stays current

Sources and update dates

The federal layer is rebuilt from the public-domain congressional corpus, the state layer from Open States People, and the candidate and money layer from FEC bulk files. Connected pages use the same stored records. Their source dates show when those records were last checked; a scheduled job is not proof that a refresh succeeded.