Brownsville: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) — Cameron County, Texas votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Texas, Cornyn seat; Cornyn not on the general ballot); U.S. Representative TX-34; Governor and other statewide offices; Texas House District 38 at city hall (HD-37 and HD-35 also cover parts of the city); Cameron County offices. Texas Senate District 27 is NOT up in 2026 (not in the SOS listing; Sen. Adam Hinojosa was elected in 2024). No City of Brownsville officer election could be confirmed on the November ballot (city and county election pages unreachable — see notes)..

Holding office13

the sitting council

On the ballot12

3 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 34th congressional district (city hall, and every sampled point in the city on the 2025 map used for 2026; Vicente Gonzalez holds TX-34 on the current map per house.gov) — Vicente Gonzalez (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
John F. Cowen, Jr. Elected	Mayor	Independent		Brownsville Public Utilities Board (city-owned utility)

City Commissioner

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Bryan L. Martinez Elected unofficial	City Commissioner	Independent	District 1	City of Brownsville
Gustavo De León Elected unofficial	City Commissioner	Independent	District 3	City of Brownsville
Linda C. Macias Elected unofficial	City Commissioner	Independent	District 2	City of Brownsville
Nurith Galonsky Elected unofficial	City Commissioner	Independent	At-Large B	City of Brownsville
Pedro Cardenas Elected unofficial	City Commissioner	Independent	District 4	City of Brownsville
Tino Villarreal, Jr. Elected unofficial	City Commissioner	Independent	At-Large A	City of Brownsville

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-38

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Erin Gámez Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Texas Legislature Online
Laura E. Cisneros	State Representative Running	Republican		Texas Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-27

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Adam Hinojosa Elected	State Senator	Republican		Texas Legislature Online

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-34

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Vicente Gonzalez Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Chris Royal	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Texas Secretary of State
Eddie Espinoza	U.S. Representative Running	Green	Texas Secretary of State
Eric Flores	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Candidates from the Texas Secretary of State Election Results listing for the 2026 November General Election (electionresults.sos.state.tx.us/results.html, page header 'Updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM'; robots.txt 404 — no rules; no terms printed on the page). Races read: U.S. Senator — Ken Paxton (R), James Talarico (D), Ted Brown (L); U.S. Representative District 34 — Eric Flores (R), Vicente Gonzalez (D, marked (I)), Chris Royal (L), Eddie Espinoza (Green); Governor — Greg Abbott (R, (I)), Gina Hinojosa (D), Pat Dixon (L); State Representative District 38 — Laura E. Cisneros (R), Erin Elizabeth Gamez (D, (I)). Names printed in capitals on the listing; given here in normal case. Write-ins skipped. Not used: Texas SOS candidate site (goelect) and house.texas.gov — robots disallow Claude agents.
Cameron County Elections & Voter Registration (www.cameroncountytx.gov/elections/): robots.txt allows all paths, but the elections page answered HTTP 307 with a Sucuri Cloudproxy JavaScript challenge ('Javascript is required…') on 2026-10-22. Not bypassed and not retried; so the county's sample ballots could not be read and the SOS listing is the only candidate source. The county page sitemap lists no elections or terms page.
City of Brownsville website (www.brownsvilletx.gov, CivicPlus): robots.txt itself returned a Cloudflare 'Sorry, you have been blocked' page for this User-Agent on 2026-10-22. Not retried and not reached by any other path (the tx-brownsville.civicplus.com mirror was not used). No Legistar client exists for Brownsville (webapi.legistar.com 'not set up' for brownsville, brownsvilletx, cob, cityofbrownsville).
Mayor John F. Cowen, Jr. comes from the Brownsville Public Utilities Board (the city-owned utility) Board of Directors page, which lists him as 'Ex-officio Member, Elected' and says he joined the board on May 16, 2023 (bpub.com robots allows the path; Terms of Use read first — they forbid republication of site material without written consent; only the fact of office is recorded here). The six City Commissioners (At-Large A, At-Large B, Districts 1–4) could not be confirmed from a reachable official list and are NOT included. A web-search index of the city's Commission page (www.brownsvilletx.gov/807/City-Commission, not opened) shows: At-Large 'A' Tino Villarreal, Jr. (term to May 2027), At-Large 'B' Nurith Galonsky (to May 2029), District 1 Bryan L. Martinez (to May 2027), District 2 Linda C. Macias (to May 2027), District 3 Gustavo De León (to May 2029), District 4 Pedro Cardenas (to May 2029), Mayor term to May 2027 — UNVERIFIED, for the coordinator to confirm from the city page when it is reachable.
Municipal election: Brownsville elects its Mayor and Commissioners in May (staggered, odd years per the indexed term dates); no city officer race is on the November 3, 2026 ballot as far as could be established, but this could not be checked against the city or county pages. Next regular municipal election (from the indexed term dates, unverified): May 2027 for Mayor, At-Large A, Districts 1 and 2. branch.vote lists a Brownsville 'November 2026' ballot but its Terms of Use forbid scrapers/robots, so it was not read.
U.S. Senators from the Texas Legislative Council Who Represents Me? service (rws.capitol.texas.gov/api/GetSenators; robots.txt 404) — party not printed there; Republican as in the merged Texas records. U.S. Representative from house.gov/representatives (robots allows; 'Gonzalez, Vicente | Texas 34th | D'). Governor Greg Abbott (R, term 2026) from the SOS Statewide Elected Officials page (www.sos.state.tx.us robots.txt empty). State Senator Adam Hinojosa (SD-27) and State Representative Erin Gámez (HD-38) from Texas Legislature Online member pages (capitol.texas.gov/Members allowed by robots); Hinojosa's party (Republican) from his Texas Senate member page (www.senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=27, robots allows), Gámez's (Democratic) from the SOS listing. No photos linked (senate.texas.gov /_assets is disallowed; none taken from other hosts).
Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) — city hall (by coordinates 25.9024, -97.4995) falls in Brownsville city (place 4810768), Cameron County, CD-34 (120th/2025 map), State Senate District 27, State House District 38. Grid sampling at 0.02° over the city (67 points inside place 4810768): CD-34 100%, SD-27 100%; HD-38 49%, HD-37 36%, HD-35 15%. Only city hall's state districts are listed, per the brief. HD-37 on the ballot: Janie Lopez (R; no (I) mark on the SOS listing although she sits for HD-37 in the 89th Legislature) vs Oziel 'Ozzie' Ochoa, Jr (D); HD-35: Oscar Rosa (R) vs Oscar Longoria (D, I).
Commission (added 2026-10-31): www.brownsvilletx.gov still answers robots.txt with a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' 403 (not bypassed). The six City Commissioners listed as UNVERIFIED in the note above are now added as rows (unofficial:true) from the search-index text of the City's own pages: /807/City-Commission (seat and term dates) and /2566/Mayor (Mayor John F. Cowen, Jr.: Commissioner At-Large 'A' from 2019, Mayor from 2023, term expires May 2027 — confirms the BPUB-sourced mayor row). The page describes a seven-member body (Mayor + six Commissioners). No later change to the roster was found in 2026 search results (Brownsville elections are in May of odd years). Re-verify on the city site when reachable.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.