Houston: 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); U.S. Representatives for the nine districts covering Houston (TX-2, 7, 8, 9, 18, 22, 29, 36, 38); Governor and other statewide offices; Texas Senate and House seats (city hall: SD-13, HD-147); Harris County offices. No City of Houston offices..

Holding office32

the sitting council

On the ballot29

7 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 18th congressional district (city hall, 901 Bagby St); the city spans TX-2, 7, 8, 9, 18, 22, 29, 36 and 38 — Dan Crenshaw (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
John Whitmire Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Houston

City Controller

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Chris Hollins Elected	City Controller	Independent	city-wide	City of Houston

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Alejandra Salinas ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large Position 4	City of Houston
Amy Peck ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District A	City of Houston
Carolyn Evans-Shabazz ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District D	City of Houston
Edward Pollard ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District J	City of Houston
Fred Flickinger ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District E	City of Houston
Joaquin Martinez ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District I	City of Houston
Joe Panzarella ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District C	City of Houston
Julian Ramirez ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large Position 1	City of Houston
Mario Castillo ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District H	City of Houston
Martha Castex-Tatum ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District K	City of Houston
Mary Nan Huffman ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District G	City of Houston
Sallie Alcorn ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large Position 5	City of Houston
Tarsha Jackson ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District B	City of Houston
Tiffany D. Thomas ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District F	City of Houston
Twila Carter ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large Position 3	City of Houston
Willie Davis ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large Position 2	City of Houston

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-147

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jolanda "Jo" Jones Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Texas House of Representatives
Theodis Daniel	State Representative Running	Republican		Texas Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-13

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Borris L. Miles Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		Texas Senate

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-2

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Dan Crenshaw Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Shaun Finnie	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Steve Toth	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-7

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Lizzie Fletcher Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Alexander Hale	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Espoir Ngabo	U.S. Representative Running	Green	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Morgan Luttrell Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Jessica Hart Steinmann	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Laura Jones	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-9

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Al Green Elected	U.S. Representative	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Alex Mealer	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Leticia Gutierrez	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-18

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Christian Menefee Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Ronald Dwayne Whitfield	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-22

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Troy Nehls Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Marquette Greene-Scott	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Trever Nehls	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-29

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Sylvia Garcia Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Martha Fierro	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-36

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Brian Babin Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Rhonda Hart	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-38

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Wesley Hunt Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Alex McMenemy	U.S. Representative Running	Green	Texas Secretary of State
Jon Bonck	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Melissa McDonough	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor, City Controller and 16 Council Members from https://www.houstontx.gov/council/ (term 2024-01-02 to 2028-01-02), /mayor/ and /controller/, retrieved 2026-10-14. houstontx.gov serves no robots.txt (the path returns the home page). Mayor Pro-Tem Martha Castex-Tatum; Vice Mayor Pro-Tem Amy Peck. City offices are elected every four years in odd years: next Houston municipal general election November 2027; no city offices on the 2026-11-03 ballot.
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygons for Houston city (place 4835000) sampled on a 160x160 grid (7,251 points inside the city) against both the 119th Congress districts (current members) and the 120th Congress districts (the 2025 Texas map used for the 2026 election). Both maps give the same nine districts: 2, 7, 8, 9, 18, 22, 29, 36, 38 (largest shares 18, 9/29). Slivers smaller than the grid spacing (~0.3 km) could be missed. City hall (901 Bagby) is TX-18 in the Census geocoder.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Texas table), retrieved 2026-10-14. TX-18 is Christian Menefee (won the 2026-01-31 special runoff). house.gov lists no photos; congress.gov and bioguide disallow this crawler in robots.txt, so no federal photos are linked.
U.S. Senators (John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, both Republican): senate.gov and the senators' own sites return HTTP 403 (Akamai) to direct fetch; not bypassed. Names read from the search-index listing of https://www.senate.gov/states/TX/senators.htm (both shown serving, term end 'Present'). Re-verify when senate.gov is reachable. Cornyn is NOT on the November ballot (the Republican nominee for his seat is Ken Paxton per the SOS list).
State: Governor from the Texas SOS Statewide Elected Officials page; city hall's state districts (SD-13, HD-147, from the Census geocoder 2026 state legislative layers) and their members from senate.texas.gov and house.texas.gov. Districts covering the city: 8 (SD-4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18) Texas Senate and about 30 Texas House districts (same grid method); only city hall's are listed per the brief.
Candidates: Texas SOS Candidate Information (Civix 'goelect' app; its public JSON endpoint findQualifiedCandidates, election 53815 '2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION', office types FD and SR), retrieved 2026-10-14. Kept: filing status CG ('Candidate in the General Election') with declaration ACCEPTED; dropped: write-ins (party W), rejected independent applications (e.g. Jade Simmons for U.S. Senate, Roy Morales TX-9, Scott Cubbler and William Taggart TX-38, Valencia Williams TX-18). The SOS list prints names in capitals; names are title-cased here, the printed form kept in ballotName. The list includes mailing addresses and emails: not copied (cannot tell campaign from personal). No candidate websites or standsFor captured (only from the candidates' own pages, not yet researched).
Open seats on the 2026 ballot (incumbent not on the SOS general list for that seat): U.S. Senate (Cornyn), TX-2 (Crenshaw), TX-8 (Luttrell), TX-9 (Al Green), TX-22 (Troy Nehls), TX-38 (Hunt). Unopposed: Texas Senate District 13 (Borris L. Miles, only qualified candidate).
Robots/terms: houstontx.gov (no robots.txt), house.gov (allows), sos.texas.gov (allows), goelect.txelections.civixapps.com (no robots.txt; no terms shown on the candidate page), senate.texas.gov / house.texas.gov (allow member pages), geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (public Census services). City of Houston pages carry 'Copyright © 2022. All rights reserved.' — council photos are linked, not copied.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-14. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.