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Texas — what is on the 2026 ballot

38 House seats and 1 Senate seat. Voting is on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 33 days away. 392 people have filed with the FEC.

Senate

House of Representatives

38 seats · every one contested every two years

The rest of the ballot

3,138 contests · 254 counties · certified for 2026

A Texas voter is handed 3,138 contests, not the 39 above: statewide executives, both chambers of the legislature, the State Board of Education, every court from the Supreme Court down to the justices of the peace, and the county offices each county submits. This is the list the state signed, not one this site worked out.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · 33 days away · certified August 28, 2026 · the signed certification

80% of it is already decided

2,501 of the 3,138 contests have exactly one certified candidate. That is the single most useful thing this document says about a local office, and it falls straight out of it with no further source: nobody is running against these people.

  • Federal offices0%0 of 39 unopposed
  • State offices10%19 of 189 unopposed
  • District offices77%270 of 352 unopposed
  • County offices88%1,083 of 1,226 unopposed
  • Precinct offices85%1,129 of 1,332 unopposed

“Unopposed” here means one candidate was certified, which is what the document carries. A state that admits declared write-in candidates lists them on this same certification, so a contest with one name is a contest the Secretary of State gave one name.

What every Texas voter votes on

The 18 contests certified in all 254 counties. Everything else on this ballot belongs to a district, a county or a precinct.

Your county's ballot

The certification is printed county by county, so what a county votes on is read straight off it — no districting plan needed, which matters because for judicial districts and multi-county prosecutors this database holds no plan to read one from. Ballots run from 26 contests to 142.

Read from the certification: the county, the office heading, each candidate's name and their party. Derived from it, and only from the county list: whether a contest is statewide, spans counties or sits in one. Nothing here matches a name on the ballot to a person elsewhere on this site — a certification carries a name and no identifier of any kind, so a link to a voting record or a campaign filing would be this site's guess rather than the state's statement. Where the state certifies a federal race this site already derived, the two are linked and each contest page says so.

Seats come from the districting plan in force — the same lines the district pages draw. A candidate list is what the FEC holds, which is not the ballot: state filing deadlines and ballot-access rules are separate, and both lists contain names the other does not.