Mesquite: 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. Representative for TX-5 (whole city on the 2025 map); Governor and other statewide offices (incl. Attorney General, for which SD-16 Senator Nathan Johnson is the Democratic nominee); Texas House District 107 (city hall) and the other Texas House seats in the city (HD-113, HD-4); Texas Senate District 2 for the part of the city in SD-2 (SD-16, which holds city hall, is not up); Dallas and Kaufman county and judicial offices (not captured). No City of Mesquite offices (city elections are in odd-numbered years; next 2027-11-02)..
Holding office14
the sitting council
On the ballot10
4 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Mesquite is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 5th congressional district (city hall, on both the 2025 map used for 2026 and the 119th Congress map of the sitting members); on the 2025 map all of Mesquite is TX-5, on the 119th map the city spans TX-5 and TX-32 — Lance Gooden (Republican)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Alemán, Jr. ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
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Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Hubacek ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 4 | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
| B.W. Smith ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 5 | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
| Brandon Murden ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 6 | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
| Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ross ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 3 | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
| Jeff Casper ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 1 | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
| Kenny Green ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 2 | City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) |
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Attorney General
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Johnson Elected | State Senator → Running for Attorney General | Democratic | Texas Senate - Member page (District 16) |
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Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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) |
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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) |
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U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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) |
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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) |
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U.S. Representative — TX-32
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Johnson Elected | U.S. Representative | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives - Directory of Representatives (Texas) |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor Daniel Alemán, Jr. and six Councilmembers (Districts 1-6, called Places 1-6 on the Elections page) from the City of Mesquite City Council page (www.cityofmesquite.com/131/City-Council), the Mayor page and each district page, retrieved 2026-10-29. Mayor Pro Tem Kenny Green (District 2); Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Elizabeth Rodriguez-Ross (District 3). All terms 'Expire: November 2027'. The council page says the City Council 'consists of the Mayor and six Councilmembers, all of whom are elected to serve two-year terms'; city health officer, auditor, municipal judge, city manager, city attorney and city secretary are appointed, so there is no other city-wide elected office. Offices are non-partisan. Official @cityofmesquite.com emails are those printed on each member page; the per-member phone numbers printed there were not copied. Photos are the member pages' own headshots (alt text names each member), linked only.
- City elections: the City Elections page (www.cityofmesquite.com/152/Elections) says 'The City election, for the purpose of electing a Mayor and Councilmembers for Places 1 - 6, is held in odd-numbered years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The next election will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2027.' Elections are run jointly by Dallas County and Kaufman County. No City of Mesquite race on 2026-11-03.
- Districts: city hall (the council meeting place named on the council page) geocoded by the Census geocoder to (-96.59929, 32.77361): Mesquite city, Dallas County, TX-5 on the 120th Congress layer (2025 Texas map used for 2026), State Senate District 16, State House District 107 (2026 layers). Districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygon for Mesquite city (place 4847892) sampled on a 120x120 grid (3,575 points inside) against the TIGERweb Legislative layers: 120th TX-5 3,575 (all); 119th (BAS 2026 layer) TX-5 2,972 / TX-32 603; Texas Senate (2026) SD-16 2,631 / SD-2 889 / SD-23 55; Texas House (2026) HD-113 2,018 / HD-107 1,149 / HD-4 405 / HD-112 3 (edge). The city also extends into Kaufman County. Only city hall's state districts are listed per the brief. The ACS2025 geocoder vintage answered 502, so the 119th layer was read from TIGERweb only.
- 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), re-read 2026-10-29. Captured: U.S. Senate, TX-5, Governor, HD-107, and the Attorney General line for SD-16's sitting senator. No State Senator, District 16 race is on the listing. Write-in lines skipped. Names title-cased from the all-caps listing. Statewide officeholders and candidates (Cornyn, Cruz, Abbott, Paxton, Talarico, Brown, Hinojosa, Dixon), Gooden, Hockett, Julie Johnson and Linda Garcia rows are carried from the finished us-garland record (same official sources, retrieved 2026-10-22) and their ballot lines re-checked on the listing on 2026-10-29. Dallas County's dallascountyvotes.org (AWS WAF CAPTCHA per BRIEF-SOURCES), the Texas SOS candidate site goelect.txelections.civixapps.com and house.texas.gov (robots disallow ClaudeBot) were not used. Kaufman County election pages were not tried.
- Open seats among those captured: U.S. Senate (Cornyn not on the ballot). Incumbents running: Lance Gooden (TX-5), Greg Abbott (Governor), Linda Garcia (HD-107, unopposed), Nathan Johnson (SD-16 senator, running for Attorney General). No standsFor captured.
- Robots/terms: www.cityofmesquite.com (robots.txt names ClaudeBot in a group that disallows only admin, search, calendar, RSS, map, alert, bids, FAQ and login endpoints; council, member and election pages allowed; '*' Crawl-delay 10 honoured; the /privacy page renders no policy text and no terms-of-use page was found), electionresults.sos.state.tx.us (robots 404; no terms on the page), senate.texas.gov (allows member pages; disallows /_assets), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (robots.txt request answered by a firewall 'Request Rejected' page; REST query service answered, as for us-garland). One User-Agent throughout: 'ResearchUpon-politics/1.0 (civic research; +https://researchupon.com)'. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-29. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Mesquite - City Council (and the member's own page) 7
- Texas Secretary of State - Election Results, 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION (candidate listing, updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM) 6
- Texas Legislative Council - Who Represents Me? (U.S. Senators) 2
- U.S. House of Representatives - Directory of Representatives (Texas) 2
- Texas Secretary of State - Statewide Elected Officials 1
- Texas Legislature Online - Member information (89th Legislature, House District 107) 1
- Texas Senate - Member page (District 16) 1