Austin: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and City of Austin general election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Texas, Cornyn seat); U.S. Representatives for the five districts covering Austin on the 2025 map (TX-10, 11, 17, 27, 37); Governor and other statewide offices; Texas House seats (city hall: HD-49, open; SD-14 is not up in 2026); Travis, Williamson and Hays county offices; City of Austin council Districts 1, 3, 5, 8 and 9, plus the City of Austin 2026 bond election..

Holding office23

the sitting council

On the ballot41

10 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 10th congressional district (city hall, 301 W 2nd St, on the 2025 map used for 2026; TX-37 on the current 119th map); the city spans TX-10, 11, 17, 21, 27, 35 and 37 across the two maps — Michael McCaul (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kirk Watson Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Austin

Council Member — District 1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Natasha Harper-Madison Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Austin
Alexandria Anderson	Council Member Running	Independent	District 1	City of Austin
Amber K. Goodwin	Council Member Running	Independent	District 1	City of Austin
Michael Nahas	Council Member Running	Independent	District 1	City of Austin
Misael Ramos	Council Member Running	Independent	District 1	City of Austin
Portia Riggins	Council Member Running	Independent	District 1	City of Austin
Steven Brown	Council Member Running	Independent	District 1	City of Austin

Council Member — District 3

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
José Velásquez Elected	Council Member → Running	Independent	District 3	City of Austin
Brock Skinner	Council Member Running	Independent	District 3	City of Austin
Eduardo “Lalito” Romero	Council Member Running	Independent	District 3	City of Austin
Gavin Fernandez Jr.	Council Member Running	Independent	District 3	City of Austin
Neha Shah	Council Member Running	Independent	District 3	City of Austin

Council Member — District 5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Ryan Alter Elected	Council Member → Running	Independent	District 5	City of Austin
David Weinberg	Council Member Running	Independent	District 5	City of Austin
Farrah Abraham	Council Member Running	Independent	District 5	City of Austin
Liz Brink	Council Member Running	Independent	District 5	City of Austin

Council Member — District 8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Paige Ellis Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of Austin
Jeffery Bowen	Council Member Running	Independent	District 8	City of Austin
Selena Xie	Council Member Running	Independent	District 8	City of Austin

Council Member — District 9

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Zohaib "Zo" Qadri Elected	Council Member → Running	Independent	District 9	City of Austin
Dave Thadani	Council Member Running	Independent	District 9	City of Austin
Kai Huang	Council Member Running	Independent	District 9	City of Austin
Katie Kam	Council Member Running	Independent	District 9	City of Austin
Rich Heyman	Council Member Running	Independent	District 9	City of Austin

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
José “Chito” Vela Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Austin
Krista Laine Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of Austin
Marc Duchen Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 10	City of Austin
Mike Siegel Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of Austin
Vanessa Fuentes Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of Austin

Comptroller of Public Accounts

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sarah Eckhardt Elected	State Senator → Running for Comptroller of Public Accounts	Democratic		Texas Senate

Governor

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

State Representative — HD-49

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Arshia Papari	State Representative Running	Green		Texas Secretary of State
Montserrat Garibay	State Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
John Cornyn Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	U.S. Senate
Ted Cruz Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	U.S. Senate
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-10

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Michael McCaul Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Caitlin Rourk	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Chris Gober	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-11

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
August Pfluger Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Claire Reynolds	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-17

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Pete Sessions Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Casey Shepard	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-21

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Chip Roy Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Representative — TX-27

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Michael Cloud Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Tanya Lloyd	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-37

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Lloyd Doggett Elected	U.S. Representative	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Greg Casar Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Lauren B. Peña	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor and 10 Council Members from https://www.austintexas.gov/department/city-council, retrieved 2026-10-15 (robots.txt allows these pages). Austin is a council-manager city; no other city-wide elected office (City Manager, City Clerk, City Auditor are appointed). Austin municipal offices are non-partisan.
City of Austin general election 2026-11-03: council Districts 1, 3, 5, 8 and 9 are on the ballot (the Mayor and Districts 2, 4, 6, 7, 10 were elected in 2024 and run next in November 2028). Candidates from the City Clerk's 'Order of Place on the Ballot for General Election to be held on November 3, 2026' (signed by City Clerk Erika Brady; drawing held 2026-08-26 in City Hall), https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=480041 (a scanned PDF, read from its image), cross-checked against the Clerk's 'Ballot Applications November 2026' table (https://www.austintexas.gov/clerk/elections/Ballot-Applications-November-2026, updated 2026-08-17): the same 22 names. ballotPosition is the drawn order. Incumbents running: José Velásquez (D3), Ryan Alter (D5), Zohaib 'Zo' Qadri (D9). Open seats: D1 (Natasha Harper-Madison not on the ballot) and D8 (Paige Ellis not on the ballot). A runoff (December 2026) follows where no candidate wins a majority. The 2026 City of Austin bond election is also on the ballot (not a candidate race). Candidate websites and standsFor not captured; the Clerk's per-candidate links are campaign-finance filings, not opened.
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for Austin city (place 4805000) sampled on a 160x160 grid (11,367 points inside the city) against the 119th Congress districts (current members) and the 120th Congress districts (the 2025 Texas map used for the 2026 election). 119th: TX-37 (6,175 points), 35 (3,534), 10 (1,028), 21 (626), 17 (4). 120th: TX-37 (6,767), 10 (2,538), 27 (1,006), 11 (572), 17 (484). All seven sitting members of the union are listed; candidates are listed only for the five 120th-map districts (TX-21 and TX-35 no longer reach Austin, so their 2026 races are not on Austin ballots). Slivers smaller than the grid spacing (~0.3 km) could be missed. City hall is TX-10 on the 120th layer of the Census geocoder (TX-37 on the 119th by the grid).
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Texas table), retrieved 2026-10-15. house.gov lists no photos; congress.gov/bioguide not used (disallowed to this crawler per the Houston run), so no federal photos are linked.
U.S. Senators (John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, both Republican): senate.gov returns HTTP 403 (Akamai); not fetched. Carried from the merged us-houston record (read from the search-index listing of https://www.senate.gov/states/TX/senators.htm). Re-verify when senate.gov is reachable. Cornyn is NOT on the November ballot (Republican nominee for his seat: Ken Paxton, per the SOS list).
State: Governor from the Texas SOS Statewide Elected Officials page (Greg Abbott, R, term expires 2026), retrieved 2026-10-15. City hall's state districts (SD-14, HD-49, from the Census geocoder 2026 state legislative layers) and their members from senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=14 (Sarah Eckhardt, party printed 'Democrat') and house.texas.gov/members/49 (Gina Hinojosa; page does not print party, Democratic per the SOS list). Both sit but are running for other offices: Eckhardt is on the SOS list for Comptroller of Public Accounts (SD-14 not up in 2026), Hinojosa for Governor (HD-49 is an open seat: Montserrat Garibay, D; Arshia Papari, Green). Districts covering the city by the same grid: 5 Texas Senate (SD-5, 14, 21, 24, 25) and 10 Texas House districts (19, 20, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 136); only city hall's are listed per the brief.
Candidates: Texas SOS Candidate Information (Civix 'goelect' app; public JSON endpoint /api-ivis-cbp/api/cbp/findQualifiedCandidates, election 53815 '2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION', office types FD and SR), retrieved 2026-10-15. Kept: filing status CG with declaration accepted, party not W; dropped write-ins (U.S. Senate, Governor, TX-27 Wayne Raasch) and rejected independent applications (Jade Simmons, U.S. Senate; Sarah Bowman Cunningham and Demetra Jefferson Wysinger, Governor). Names title-cased from the capitalised list, printed form in ballotName/runningBallotName. Mailing addresses, emails and occupations on the list were dropped on download, not copied. No candidate websites or standsFor captured. Greg Casar sits for TX-35 and is on the ballot for TX-37 (incumbent-running, runningSeat TX-37).
Open seats on the 2026 ballot for Austin (incumbent not on the SOS general list for that seat): U.S. Senate (Cornyn), TX-10 (McCaul), TX-37 (Doggett; Casar running there), HD-49 (Hinojosa), council D1 (Harper-Madison) and D8 (Ellis). Chip Roy (TX-21) is not on the general ballot. Unopposed: none among the seats captured.
Next City of Austin general election after 2026-11-03: November 2028 (Mayor and Districts 2, 4, 6, 7, 10). Runoffs, where needed, in December 2026.
Robots/terms: austintexas.gov and services.austintexas.gov (robots allows these pages; 'Legal Notice' linked, no reuse licence stated on the pages; council photos are hosted on austin.widen.net and linked, not copied), house.gov (allows), sos.texas.gov (robots.txt empty), goelect.txelections.civixapps.com (robots.txt 404; no terms shown), senate.texas.gov (allows member pages; /_assets disallowed but member photos are under /members/), house.texas.gov (allows all), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt) and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (robots.txt request rejected by its firewall page; public Census map service used as in the Dallas/Houston runs).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.