Abilene: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Texas, Cornyn seat; Cornyn not on the ballot: Paxton R, Talarico D, Brown L); U.S. Representative for TX-19 (open seat; incumbent Jodey Arrington not on the ballot: Tom Sell R, Kyle Rable D); Governor (Abbott (I) R, Hinojosa D, Dixon L) and the other statewide executive and judicial offices; Texas Senate District 28 (Charles Perry (I) R, Riley Rodriquez D); Texas House District 71 (open seat: Jay Hardaway R, Diana Luna D); 11th and 15th Court of Appeals seats, 326th District Court, Taylor County offices; and a City of Abilene Special Election with two charter/collective-bargaining propositions for fire fighters (Proposition A: adoption of state collective-bargaining law for fire fighters; Proposition B: adding City Charter Section 145, arbitration of collective-bargaining impasses with IAFF Local 1044). No City of Abilene office is on the November ballot..

Holding office8

the sitting council

On the ballot12

2 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Abilene is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 19th congressional district (city hall); the whole city is in TX-19 on the 120th Congress map (2025 Texas map, used for 2026) — Jodey Arrington (Republican)

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Benjamin L. Bailey Elected	Council Member	Independent	Place 4	Taylor County Elections
Travis Craver Elected	Council Member	Independent	Place 6	Taylor County Elections

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Greg Abbott Elected	Governor → Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Gina Hinojosa	Governor Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Pat Dixon	Governor Running	Libertarian	Texas Secretary of State

State Representative — HD-71

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Stan Lambert Elected	State Representative	—	Texas Legislature Online
Diana Luna	State Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Jay Hardaway	State Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-28

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Charles Perry Elected	State Senator → Running	Republican		The Texas State Senate
Riley Rodriquez	State Senator Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
John Cornyn Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	Texas Legislative Council
Ted Cruz Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	Texas Legislative Council
James Talarico	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Ken Paxton	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Ted Brown	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-19

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Jodey Arrington Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Kyle Rable	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Tom Sell	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Federal/state candidates come from the Texas Secretary of State Election Results site for the 2026 November General Election (electionresults.sos.state.tx.us/results.html, title 'Election Results - Tuesday, November 3, 2026', '(Updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)'), which lists every federal and state race with its candidates and marks incumbents (I). Its robots.txt returns 404 (no rules); no terms page is linked. The robots-disallowed SOS candidate site (goelect) and house.texas.gov were not touched. Write-ins skipped. Names title-cased from the all-caps listing; ballotName keeps the printed form.
Every running row was cross-checked against two official sample ballots for 3 Nov 2026: Taylor County Elections ('2026 Joint General and Special Elections', DocumentCenter/View/5290, precincts 101-107A/301-307A, and View/5283, precincts 201-205; scanned images, read through their text layer) and Jones County (co.jones.tx.us, 'Sample Ballot for November 3, 2026 General Election (includes City of Abilene and Clyde CISD)'). Names and parties match the SOS listing. Both list TX-19 Tom Sell (REP) / Kyle Rable (DEM), SD-28 Charles Perry (REP) / Riley Rodriquez (DEM), HD-71 Jay Hardaway (REP) / Diana Luna (DEM).
Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) on city hall (32.4541, -99.7312): Taylor County, Congressional District 19 (120th map), State Senate District 28, State House District 71. A 0.03-degree grid gave 28 points inside Abilene city (27 Taylor, 1 Jones): ALL in TX-19, SD-28 and HD-71, so one district of each kind covers the city. No street address is stored.
U.S. Senators Cornyn and Cruz from rws.capitol.texas.gov/api/GetSenators (robots 404; prints no party - Republican as in earlier Texas records). Jodey Arrington (R, TX-19, arrington.house.gov) from house.gov/representatives (robots allows it); he is NOT on the 2026 ballot - TX-19 is an open seat. Governor Greg Abbott (R, term 2026) from the SOS Statewide Elected Officials page (sos.state.tx.us; robots.txt empty). State Senator Charles Perry ('Party: Republican') from senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=28 (robots disallows only /_assets, /bin, /kids, /hola, /tsn, /memberForm.php); photo at /members/d28/img/ linked, not copied. State Rep. Stan Lambert (District 71) from Texas Legislature Online MemberInfo (89th Legislature, Code A3225; robots allows /Members/); TLO prints no party and no other official source for his party was read, so party is null. He is not on the 2026 ballot (HD-71 open: Hardaway R, Luna D).
Municipal: abilenetx.gov's robots.txt (Cloudflare-managed) names ClaudeBot with 'Disallow: /' (and sets Content-Signal ai-train=no) - so the City's own council page, charter and canvasses were NOT fetched. abilenetx.legistar.com has no Abilene tenant ('Invalid parameters!'). Council members can therefore be shown only where the county election office (which runs Abilene's May elections) has posted a City of Abilene result: Taylor County's Archived Election Results page links the May 3 2025 City of Abilene official report (Places 5 and 6 + Proposition A) and its Current Election page links the 13 June 2026 City of Abilene Runoff report (Place 4). Taylor County has NOT posted the May 2026 City general election (mayor and other places), the June 2025 Place 5 runoff, or a 2024 City election; Jones County posts none of these. Abilene's Mayor and Places 1, 2, 3 and 5 are therefore missing - not guessed. Place 5 (May 2025: Kyle McAlister 49.78%, Miguel Espinoza 42.98%, Cynthia D. Alvidrez 7.24%) went to a runoff whose result was not found on an official page.
Taylor County site robots.txt: a group naming ClaudeBot and other AI crawlers repeats only the ordinary admin/search/calendar disallows (no 'Disallow: /'); the * group sets Crawl-delay 10, honoured (10 s between requests). Its 'Copyright Notices' page has no text (no reuse terms stated). One slip to record: the first request went to the old host www.taylorcountytexas.org (robots 404), which redirected to www.taylorcounty.texas.gov's HOME page before that host's robots.txt had been read; robots.txt was read immediately after and before any other page. No terms page was found on co.jones.tx.us.
Next municipal election: Abilene elects council places and mayor in May on staggered three-year terms (Places 5-6 in 2025; Place 4 decided in the June 2026 runoff). The 3 Nov 2026 ballot carries City of Abilene Propositions A and B (fire fighters' collective bargaining; City Charter Section 145 impasse arbitration with IAFF Local 1044) but no city office. Next regular city election expected May 2027 (uniform election date) - NOT confirmed on an official city page (site disallowed).
County offices (County Judge Phil Crowley, Criminal District Attorney etc.) are on the ballot but out of scope; no rows. No standsFor entries: no candidate's own statement was read this run.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-23. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.