El Paso: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) and City of El Paso general election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Texas, Cornyn seat, open); U.S. Representatives for TX-16 and TX-23; Governor and other statewide offices; Texas House seats (city hall: HD-77; Texas Senate District 29 is not on the 2026 ballot); El Paso County offices; and City of El Paso City Representatives for Districts 1, 5, 6 and 8 (the Mayor and Districts 2, 3, 4 and 7 are not up)..

Holding office15

the sitting council

On the ballot29

7 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 16th congressional district (city hall, 300 N. Campbell St); the city spans TX-16 and TX-23 on both the 2025 map used for the 2026 election and the 119th Congress map of the sitting members — Veronica Escobar (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Renard U. Johnson Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of El Paso

City Representative — District 1

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Alejandra Chávez Elected	City Representative → Running	Independent	District 1	City of El Paso
Daniela Garcia	City Representative Running	Independent	District 1	El Paso County Elections Department
Matthew James Kozik	City Representative Running	Independent	District 1	El Paso County Elections Department
Sam Armijo	City Representative Running	Independent	District 1	El Paso County Elections Department

City Representative — District 5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Ivan Niño Elected	City Representative → Running	Independent	District 5	City of El Paso
Richard Genera	City Representative Running	Independent	District 5	El Paso County Elections Department

City Representative — District 6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Art Fierro Elected	City Representative → Running	Independent	District 6	City of El Paso
Claudia Contreras Siller	City Representative Running	Independent	District 6	El Paso County Elections Department
Hector Alba	City Representative Running	Independent	District 6	El Paso County Elections Department
Jesse Moreno	City Representative Running	Independent	District 6	El Paso County Elections Department
Pedro Fernandez Jr.	City Representative Running	Independent	District 6	El Paso County Elections Department

City Representative — District 8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Chris Canales Elected	City Representative → Running	Independent	District 8	City of El Paso
Arturo Alluin	City Representative Running	Independent	District 8	El Paso County Elections Department
Johnny J. Gonzalez	City Representative Running	Independent	District 8	El Paso County Elections Department
Laura Ochoa-Todd	City Representative Running	Independent	District 8	El Paso County Elections Department
Matthew Guzman	City Representative Running	Independent	District 8	El Paso County Elections Department

City Representative

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Cynthia Boyar Trejo Elected	City Representative	Independent	District 4	City of El Paso
Deanna Maldonado-Rocha Elected	City Representative	Independent	District 3	City of El Paso
Dr. Josh Acevedo Elected	City Representative	Independent	District 2	City of El Paso
Lily Limón Elected	City Representative	Independent	District 7	City of El Paso

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Greg Abbott Elected	Governor → Running	Republican	El Paso County Elections Department
Gina Hinojosa	Governor Running	Democratic	El Paso County Elections Department
Pat Dixon	Governor Running	Libertarian	El Paso County Elections Department

State Representative — HD-77

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Vincent Perez Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		El Paso County Elections Department
Humberto Perez	State Representative Running	Republican		El Paso County Elections Department

State Senator — SD-29

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
César Blanco Elected	State Senator	Democratic		Texas Senate

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
John Cornyn Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	El Paso County Elections Department
Ted Cruz Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	El Paso County Elections Department
James Talarico	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	El Paso County Elections Department
Ken Paxton	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	El Paso County Elections Department
Ted Brown	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	El Paso County Elections Department

U.S. Representative — TX-16

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Veronica Escobar Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Adam Bauman	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		El Paso County Elections Department

U.S. Representative — TX-23

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Ben Mendoza	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	El Paso County Elections Department
Brandon Herrera	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	El Paso County Elections Department
Katy Padilla Stout	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	El Paso County Elections Department

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor and 8 district City Representatives from the City of El Paso's own pages (elpasotexas.gov/government/mayor and /government/district-1 … district-8), retrieved 2026-10-22; each page states the current term and when it ends. elpasotexas.gov has no robots.txt (404). Official emails on those pages are Cloudflare-obfuscated and were not decoded, so email is null. The City's website copyright notice forbids copying or reproduction without written consent (redistribution in its entirety with the notice is allowed; commercial reproduction needs permission) — photos are linked only. El Paso has no other city-wide elected office (the City Manager is appointed).
City of El Paso municipal election IS on 2026-11-03: the City's Notice of General Election (filed with the county, https://ep-county-elections-production.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/files/000/006/796/original/City_of_El_Paso_Notice_of_General_Election_-_November_3__2026.pdf?1788463070) calls a general election 'to elect District Representatives Numbers 1, 5, 6, and 8'. All four incumbents (Chávez D1, Niño D5, Fierro D6, Canales D8) are on the City ballot. City candidates from the county's City of El Paso sample ballot; no party is printed (non-partisan). A runoff follows if no one wins a majority. The Mayor and Districts 2, 3, 4 and 7 terms end January 2029, so their next election is November 2028.
Candidates: El Paso County Elections Department sample ballots for the November 3, 2026 General and Special Election (Federal/State/County ballot and City of El Paso ballot), linked from https://www.epcountyvotes.com/voter-information/current-election, retrieved 2026-10-22. The county ballot is the official ballot content; party abbreviations as printed (Rep/Dem/Lib/Ind) expanded to full names. Write-in lines skipped. Neither ballot prints addresses. No candidate websites or standsFor captured.
The Texas SOS candidate list (goelect.txelections.civixapps.com, used for earlier Texas records) was NOT used: its robots.txt now carries a Cloudflare-managed block naming ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai and Claude-Web ('Disallow: /') with Content-Signal ai-train=no. The UI page and its script were fetched once before the robots body was read; no candidate data was requested. The county sample ballot was used instead.
house.texas.gov's robots.txt carries the same ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai/Claude-Web 'Disallow: /'; one member page (HD-77) was fetched before that was read and the copy deleted unused. Vincent Perez (HD-77) is sourced from the El Paso County Elected Officials Directory instead, and has no photo. senate.texas.gov robots allows member pages (disallows only /_assets etc.).
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygons for El Paso city (place 4824000) sampled on a 120x120 grid (5,561 points inside the city). 120th Congress map (the 2025 Texas map used for the 2026 election): TX-16 92.7%, TX-23 7.3%. 119th Congress map (sitting members): TX-16 80.3%, TX-23 19.7%. City hall is TX-16 in the Census geocoder. tigerweb robots.txt returned a 'Request Rejected' body (no rules readable); public Census REST services used as in earlier records.
TX-23 is VACANT: Tony Gonzales resigned 2026-04-14 (Clerk of the House, https://clerk.house.gov/members/TX23/vacancy, retrieved 2026-10-22); the county directory also shows 'United States Representative, District #23 - VACANT'. Open-seat candidates Herrera (R), Padilla Stout (D), Mendoza (Ind) are listed.
U.S. Senators (Ted Cruz, John Cornyn) and Governor (Greg Abbott) from the El Paso County Elected Officials Directory (https://epcountyvotestx.gov/elected-officials-and-candidate-information/elected-officials), retrieved 2026-10-22 (senate.gov returned 403 to earlier Texas agents; not retried). Party for the senators/governor from earlier merged Texas records and the ballot (Abbott 'Rep'). Cornyn is NOT on the November ballot; the Senate seat is open (Paxton R, Talarico D, Brown L).
State legislature: the city lies wholly in Texas Senate District 29 (100% of grid points) and across 5 Texas House districts (HD-78 44%, HD-79 25%, HD-77 23%, HD-75 5.5%, HD-74 2.6%) on the 2026 Census layers; only city hall's (SD-29, HD-77) are listed per the brief. SD-29 does not appear on the 2026 county ballot, so César Blanco is 'elected', not running. HD-75 (Mary E. Gonzalez) is the only unopposed House race touching the city but is not city hall's district.
Robots/terms: epcountyvotes.com and epcountyvotestx.gov (robots.txt comment only, nothing disallowed; disclaimer says site information 'is not official nor … legal notice'); ep-county-elections-production.s3.amazonaws.com (county document store); elpasotexas.gov (no robots.txt; copyright notice restricts reproduction); house.gov (allows /representatives); clerk.house.gov; senate.texas.gov (allows member pages); geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404). Not used: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com and house.texas.gov (robots disallow Claude agents).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.