Laredo: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) — Webb County Joint General and Special Election, including the City of Laredo General Election votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Texas, Cornyn seat, open); U.S. Representative TX-28; Governor and other statewide offices; Texas Senate District 21; Texas House District 42 at city hall (HD-80 in the north/west parts of the city); Webb County offices; and in the City of Laredo: Mayor, Council Members for Districts 1, 2, 3 and 6, Municipal Court Judge Position 1, and non-binding City Proposition 1 (pediatric hospital services). Districts IV, V, VII and VIII are not on the November ballot; a special election for Council Member District VIII is set for 2026-12-05..
Holding office15
the sitting council
On the ballot29
10 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Laredo is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 28th congressional district (city hall, and the whole city on both the 119th Congress map and the 2025 map used for 2026) — Henry Cuellar (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Cigarroa Elected | Council Member → Running for Mayor | Independent | City of Laredo | |
| Victor D. Trevino Elected | Mayor → Running | Independent | City of Laredo | |
| JD Gonzalez | Mayor Running | Independent | Webb County Elections Department | |
| Jorge A. Garza | Mayor Running | Independent | Webb County Elections Department | |
| Poncho Casso | Mayor Running | Independent | Webb County Elections Department |
2
Council Member — District 1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Gonzalez Elected | Council Member → Running | Independent | District 1 | City of Laredo |
| Lupe De Leon Jr | Council Member Running | Independent | District 1 | Webb County Elections Department |
3
Municipal Court Judge — Position 1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Henry Chu | Municipal Court Judge Running | Independent | Position 1 | Webb County Elections Department |
| Rudy Morales III | Municipal Court Judge Running | Independent | Position 1 | Webb County Elections Department |
4
Council Member — District 2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricardo "Richie" Rangel Jr. ✉️ Elected | Council Member → Running | Independent | District 2 | City of Laredo |
| Daisy Campos Rodriguez | Council Member Running | Independent | District 2 | Webb County Elections Department |
5
Council Member — District 3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melissa R. Cigarroa Elected | Council Member → Running | Independent | District 3 | City of Laredo |
| Clarissa "Claire" Cardenas | Council Member Running | Independent | District 3 | Webb County Elections Department |
| Michelle "Mimi" Winterroth | Council Member Running | Independent | District 3 | Webb County Elections Department |
6
Council Member — District 6
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler King Elected | Council Member → Running | Independent | District 6 | City of Laredo |
| Ubaldo "Baldo" Granados Jr | Council Member Running | Independent | District 6 | Webb County Elections Department |
7
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricardo "Rick" Garza Elected | Council Member | Independent | District IV | City of Laredo |
| Ruben Gutierrez Jr. Elected | Council Member | Independent | District V | City of Laredo |
| Vanessa Perez Elected | Council Member | Independent | District VII | City of Laredo |
8
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Abbott Elected | Governor → Running | Republican | Texas Secretary of State | |
| Gina Hinojosa | Governor Running | Democratic | Webb County Elections Department | |
| Pat Dixon | Governor Running | Libertarian | Webb County Elections Department |
9
State Representative — HD-42
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Peña Raymond Elected | State Representative → Running | Democratic | Texas Legislature Online | |
| Teresa Johnson-Hernandez | State Representative Running | Republican | Webb County Elections Department |
10
State Senator — SD-21
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judith Zaffirini Elected | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Texas Legislature Online | |
| Julie Dahlberg | State Senator Running | Republican | Webb County Elections Department |
11
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 | Webb County Elections Department | |
| Ken Paxton | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Webb County Elections Department | |
| Ted Brown | U.S. Senator Running | Libertarian | Webb County Elections Department |
12
U.S. Representative — TX-28
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Cuellar Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Marlón Durán | U.S. Representative Running | Green | Webb County Elections Department | |
| Tano E. Tijerina | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Webb County Elections Department |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- City of Laredo website (www.cityoflaredo.com) returned an Akamai 'Access Denied' 403 to robots.txt itself for this User-Agent on 2026-10-22; not retried and not reached by any other path. The sitting Mayor and Council come instead from the City's own Legistar system (Granicus Legistar Web API, client 'cityoflaredo', City Council body 138 office records and person records; robots.txt 404 on webapi.legistar.com and cityoflaredo.legistar.com — no rules). Records with end dates after 2026-10-22: Mayor Dr. Victor D. Trevino (2022-12-17 to 2026-12-17), District I Gilbert Gonzalez (Mayor Pro Tempore), II Ricardo "Richie" Rangel Jr., III Melissa R. Cigarroa, VI Tyler King (term ends 2026), IV Ricardo "Rick" Garza, V Ruben Gutierrez Jr., VII Vanessa Perez, VIII Alyssa Cigarroa (2025-01-02 to 2029-01-02). The Legistar person records link council pages on cityoflaredo.com (kept as website, not opened) and give district2@ci.laredo.tx.us for District II. No terms are stated on the Legistar pages. The name is given as Legistar and the ballot print it ('Trevino', Legistar adds the title 'Dr.'). Tyler King's Legistar page slug is 'david-tyler-king'; the ballot prints 'D. Tyler King'.
- City election IS on 2026-11-03 (City of Laredo General Election on the Webb County joint ballot): Mayor (Victor D. Trevino, JD Gonzalez, Jorge A. Garza, Poncho Casso, Alyssa Cigarroa); Council District 1 (Lupe De Leon Jr, Gilbert Gonzalez); District 2 (Ricardo "Richie" Rangel Jr, Daisy Campos Rodriguez); District 3 (Melissa R Cigarroa, Michelle "Mimi" Winterroth, Clarissa "Claire" Cardenas); District 6 (D. Tyler King, Ubaldo "Baldo" Granados Jr); Municipal Court Judge Position 1 (Nathan Henry Chu, Rudy Morales III) — the sitting judge could not be confirmed (city site blocked), so those two rows have incumbent null. Non-partisan; no party printed. District VIII member Alyssa Cigarroa is running for Mayor; Webb County posted a 'Notice of Special Election for Other Political Subdivisions' (received 23 Aug 2026) for Council Member, District VIII, City of Laredo on 2026-12-05 — candidates not published there. Possible city runoff in December. Next regular municipal election for Districts IV, V, VII, VIII: November 2028.
- Candidates read from the Webb County Elections Department's official Paper Sample Ballots (www.webbcountytx.gov/714/Paper-Sample-Ballots, 131 precinct ballots for the November 3, 2026 Joint General and Special Election, scanned PDFs dated 17 Sep 2026). All 131 were downloaded (10 s crawl-delay honoured, robots.txt read first — the ClaudeBot group and '*' group disallow only admin/search/calendar/rss-type endpoints, none used), OCR'd locally with macOS Vision, and each city race was checked visually against precinct ballots 401-01, 133-01, 124-01, 129-02, 344-01, 356-01, 371-01 and 340-01. A diagonal 'SAMPLE BALLOT' watermark partly covers some names; every name was read from at least two precincts. Webb County site copyright notice: 'All content © 2006-2026 Webb County, TX… All rights reserved' (no reuse licence). Write-ins skipped.
- Federal/state candidates on the Laredo ballot cross-checked against the Texas Secretary of State Election Results listing for the 2026 November General Election (electionresults.sos.state.tx.us/results.html, 'Updated 10/14/2026'; robots.txt 404): U.S. Senator Paxton (R) / Talarico (D) / Brown (L); TX-28 Tijerina (R) / Cuellar (D, I) / Durán (Green, printed 'MARLÓN DURÁN', ballot 'Marlon Duran'); Governor Abbott (R, I) / Hinojosa (D) / Dixon (L); SD-21 Dahlberg (R) / Zaffirini (D, I); HD-42 Johnson-Hernandez (R) / Raymond (D, I). Not used: Texas SOS candidate site goelect.txelections.civixapps.com and house.texas.gov (robots disallow Claude agents, per BRIEF-SOURCES).
- 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 earlier merged Texas records. Cornyn is not on the November ballot (open seat). U.S. Representative from house.gov/representatives (robots allows; TX-28 Henry Cuellar, D). Governor Greg Abbott (R, term expires 2026) from the SOS Statewide Elected Officials page (www.sos.state.tx.us robots.txt empty). State Senator Zaffirini and State Representative Raymond from Texas Legislature Online member pages (capitol.texas.gov/Members, allowed by robots); party not printed there — from the SOS listing and the ballot. No photos linked (none taken from allowed paths).
- Districts: Census geocoder (geocoding.geo.census.gov, robots 404) at city hall by coordinates (27.5058, -99.5066): Laredo city, Webb County, CD-28 (119th and 120th maps), State Senate District 21, State House District 42. Grid sampling at 0.02 degrees (57 points inside Laredo city, place 4841464): CD-28 100% on both the 119th Congress map and the 2025 map used for 2026; SD-21 100%; HD-42 75%, HD-80 25% (2026 layers). Only city hall's state districts are listed, per the brief; HD-80 (Don McLaughlin R / Cecilia Castellano D on the ballot) also covers part of the city. Laredo College and LISD/UISD trustee races and Webb County offices are on the same ballot but outside this record's scope.
- Not used: services3.arcgis.com (City of Laredo open-data feature services) returned 403 'Invalid URL' to robots.txt, so treated as not allowed; the open-laredo.opendata.arcgis.com hub (crawl-delay 60) was queried once for the dataset list only. Webb County archived results PDFs for 2022 and 2024 are scanned turnout reports and did not yield council results.
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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.
- Webb County Elections Department — Official sample ballot, Joint General and Special Election, November 3, 2026 (precinct 401-01) 14
- City of Laredo — Legistar (City Council office records, Granicus Legistar Web API) 9
- Texas Legislative Council — Who Represents Me? (U.S. Senators service) 2
- Texas Legislature Online — Member Information (89th Legislature) 2
- Webb County Elections Department — Official sample ballot, Joint General and Special Election, November 3, 2026 (precinct 129-02) 2
- Texas Secretary of State — Statewide Elected Officials 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives 1
- Webb County Elections Department — Official sample ballot, Joint General and Special Election, November 3, 2026 (precinct 124-01) 1
- Webb County Elections Department — Official sample ballot, Joint General and Special Election, November 3, 2026 (precinct 133-01) 1
- Webb County Elections Department — Official sample ballot, Joint General and Special Election, November 3, 2026 (precinct 344-01) 1