Garland: 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 - open); U.S. Representatives for TX-5 and TX-32 (2025 map); Governor and other statewide offices; Texas Senate District 2 and Texas House District 107 (city hall) and the other Texas House seats in the city (HD-102, 112, 113); Dallas and Collin county and judicial offices (not captured). City of Garland special election on the property tax rate (a measure, no candidates). No City of Garland offices..

Holding office16

the sitting council

On the ballot13

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 32nd congressional district (city hall, on the 2025 map used for 2026; TX-5 on the 119th Congress map of the sitting members); the city spans TX-5 and TX-32 on both maps — Lance Gooden (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Dylan Hedrick ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Garland - Mayor

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Carissa Dutton ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Chris Ott ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Christina Segoviano ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Ed Moore ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Jimmy Tran ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Joe Thomas Jr. ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Justin Caraway ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)
Margaret Lucht ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of Garland - City Council (and the member's district page)

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Greg Abbott Elected	Governor → Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State - Statewide Elected Officials
Gina Hinojosa	Governor Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)
Pat Dixon	Governor Running	Libertarian	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)

State Representative — HD-107

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Linda Garcia Elected acclaimed	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Texas Legislature Online - Member information (89th Legislature, House District 107)

State Senator — SD-2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Bob Hall Elected	State Senator → Running	Republican		Texas Senate - Member page (District 2)
Keenen Colbert	State Senator Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
John Cornyn Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	Texas Legislative Council - Who Represents Me? (U.S. Senators)
Ted Cruz Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican	Texas Legislative Council - Who Represents Me? (U.S. Senators)
James Talarico	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)
Ken Paxton	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)
Ted Brown	U.S. Senator Running	Libertarian	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)

U.S. Representative — TX-5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Lance Gooden Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives - Directory of Representatives (Texas)
Chelsey Hockett	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)

U.S. Representative — TX-32

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Julie Johnson Elected	U.S. Representative	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives - Directory of Representatives (Texas)
Dan Barrios	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)
Jace Yarbrough	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM)

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor Dylan Hedrick and 8 Council Members (single-member Districts 1-8) from the City of Garland City Council page (www.garlandtx.gov/758/City-Council), the Mayor page and each district page, retrieved 2026-10-22. Mayor Pro Tem Chris Ott (District 8); Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Carissa Dutton (District 6). Official @GarlandTX.gov council emails are those printed on each member page. Garland is a council-manager city; no other city-wide elected office (City Manager, City Attorney and City Secretary are appointed). Municipal offices are non-partisan. Photos are the council page's own headshots (alt text names each member), linked only.
City elections: per the City Secretary's Elections page, 'The City of Garland conducts its General Election annually on the May uniform election date ... The next General Election is anticipated to be held on Saturday, May 1, 2027, subject to official order, to elect a Mayor and Councilmembers from Districts 3, 6, 7, and 8.' On 2026-11-03 the City holds a Special Election 'concerning the City's property tax rate' (Notices of Special Election - 2026 Tax Rate, Dallas County and Collin County, on www.garlandtx.gov/4135); it is a measure with no candidates, so nothing is captured from it.
Districts: city hall (200 N. Fifth St., the council meeting place printed on the council page) geocoded by the Census geocoder to (-96.63649, 32.91340): Garland city, Dallas County, TX-32 on the 120th Congress layer (2025 Texas map used for 2026), TX-5 on the 119th layer (ACS2025 vintage), State Senate District 2, State House District 107 (2026 layers). Districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for Garland city (place 4829000) sampled on a 160x160 grid (13,306 points inside, ~0.1 km spacing) against the TIGERweb Legislative layers: 120th TX-32 6,889 / TX-5 6,414; 119th TX-5 10,093 / TX-32 3,213; Texas Senate (2026) SD-2 13,263 / SD-16 43 (edge); Texas House (2026) HD-113 4,440 / HD-112 3,113 / HD-107 3,094 / HD-102 2,632 / HD-114 16 / HD-33 11 (edges). Counties: Dallas 13,290, Collin 11. Only city hall's state districts are listed per the brief.
Candidates: Texas Secretary of State Election Results site, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION listing (electionresults.sos.state.tx.us/results.html, 'Updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM'; robots.txt 404 = no rules), which prints every federal and state race with party, candidate and an (I) incumbent marker before polls open. Captured: U.S. Senate, TX-5, TX-32, Governor, SD-2, HD-107. Write-in lines skipped (four U.S. Senate and four Governor write-ins). Names title-cased from the all-caps listing; printed form kept in ballotName / runningBallotName. Dallas County's sample ballots (dallascountyvotes.org) were not tried: it shows an AWS WAF CAPTCHA to this crawler (per BRIEF-SOURCES); Collin County (collincountytx.gov) is an Incapsula 403 per the same notes. The Texas SOS candidate site (goelect.txelections.civixapps.com) and house.texas.gov were not used: their robots.txt disallow ClaudeBot.
Open seats among those captured: U.S. Senate (Cornyn not on the ballot; Paxton R, Talarico D, Brown L) and TX-32 (Julie Johnson not on the listing; Yarbrough R, Barrios D). Incumbents running: Lance Gooden (TX-5), Greg Abbott (Governor), Bob Hall (SD-2), Linda Garcia (HD-107). Unopposed: Texas House District 107 (Linda Garcia (I), DEMOCRATIC, the only printed candidate).
Sitting members: U.S. Representatives from www.house.gov/representatives (Texas rows: TX-5 Lance Gooden R, TX-32 Julie Johnson D), retrieved 2026-10-22; house.gov lists no photos, congress.gov not used, so no federal photos. U.S. Senators from the Texas Legislative Council's Who Represents Me? service (rws.capitol.texas.gov/api/GetSenators; prints no party); party and term from Tarrant County Elections' 'Elected Officials Representing Tarrant County as of August 06, 2026' PDF (office addresses and phones not copied; PDF deleted after extraction). Governor from the SOS Statewide Elected Officials page. SD-2 from senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=2 (photo URL under /members/, not /_assets). HD-107 from capitol.texas.gov TLO (89th Legislature). No standsFor captured.
Robots/terms: www.garlandtx.gov (robots.txt names ClaudeBot in a group that disallows only admin, search, calendar, RSS, map, alert, bids and FAQ endpoints; council, mayor, district and election pages allowed; '*' Crawl-delay 10 honoured; no terms-of-use page found), electionresults.sos.state.tx.us (robots 404; no terms on the page), www.sos.texas.gov (empty robots.txt; Website Policies page lists open records, privacy, accessibility and link policies, no reuse restriction), house.gov (allows /representatives), senate.texas.gov (allows member pages; disallows /_assets), capitol.texas.gov (allows /Members), rws.capitol.texas.gov (robots 404), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (robots.txt request answered by a firewall 'Request Rejected' page; REST query service answered), www.tarrantcountytx.gov (Crawl-delay 30 honoured; disallows only /en/search.html). Blocked: www.senate.gov (HTTP 403 Akamai to robots.txt; not retried). One User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded.

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.