Midland: 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 (Cornyn seat; Cornyn not on the ballot: Paxton R, Talarico D, Brown L); U.S. Representative TX-11 (Pfluger (I) R, Reynolds D); Governor (Abbott (I) R, Hinojosa D, Dixon L) and other statewide offices; Texas Senate SD-31 (Sparks (I) R, Betancourt D); Texas House HD-82 (Craddick (I) R, Broadrick D); Midland County offices (not captured). No City of Midland office is on the 2026 ballot (city elections are held in November of odd years)..

Holding office13

the sitting council

On the ballot12

4 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 11th congressional district (City Hall, 300 N Loraine St, and all 20 sampled points inside Midland city) — August Pfluger (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Lori Blong ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Midland

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Amy Stretcher Burkes ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Midland
Brian Stubbs ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Midland
Jack Ladd ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of Midland
John Burkholder ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	City of Midland
John Norman ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of Midland
Robin Poole ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	At-Large	City of Midland

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-82

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Tom Craddick Elected	State Representative → Running	Republican		Texas Legislature Online
Cathy Broadrick	State Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-31

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Kevin Sparks Elected	State Senator → Running	Republican		The Texas State Senate
John Betancourt	State Senator Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	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	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-11

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
August Pfluger Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican		U.S. House of Representatives
Claire Reynolds	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Candidates: Texas Secretary of State Election Results site for the 2026 November General Election (electionresults.sos.state.tx.us/results.html, page 'Election Results - Tuesday, November 3, 2026', 'Updated 10/14/2026 07:34 AM'), re-read 2026-10-31; robots.txt 404. It lists every federal and state race with candidates before polls open, '(I)' marking incumbents. The robots-disallowed goelect.txelections.civixapps.com was not touched. Write-ins skipped. Names title-cased from the all-caps listing; ballotName keeps the printed form.
Municipal: Mayor and six Council Members (two at-large, four districts) from https://www.midlandtexas.gov/238/Mayor-City-Council, retrieved 2026-10-31; official @midlandtexas.gov emails and the per-member portraits (linked) as printed; council photo alt text names the mayor's portrait. Non-partisan offices: party null. The City Secretary page (/148/City-Secretary) tabulates the elected officials with a 'Next Election Date' column: Stubbs (D1), Norman (D2), Poole and Burkholder (At-Large) November 2, 2027; Blong (Mayor), Ladd (D3), Stretcher Burkes (D4) 'November 4, 2025' (the column was not updated after that election; the page's 'General Election November 4, 2025' packet lists applications from Blong, Stretcher, Ladd, Blank, Garrett, Campbell and Williams). So Midland holds municipal elections in November of odd years; next: 2027-11-02 (D1, D2, both at-large seats). No City office on the 2026-11-03 ballot. Candidate applications not read (they can print home addresses).
Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) at City Hall gave TX-11 (120th map), SD-31, HD-82. A 7x7 coordinate grid over 31.92-32.07 N, 102.23-101.98 W: 20 points inside 'Midland city', all in TX-11, SD-31 and HD-82. A point sample; a sliver district could be missed.
Sitting members: TX-11 from house.gov/representatives (robots allows; read 2026-10-31). U.S. Senators Cornyn and Cruz and Governor Abbott carried from the us-lubbock record (Texas Legislative Council and SOS Statewide Elected Officials, read 2026-10-22), not re-read. Senator Kevin Sparks from senate.texas.gov/member.php?d=31 (robots disallows /_assets, /bin, /kids, /hola, /tsn, /memberForm.php only; photo under /members/ linked, not copied). Rep. Tom Craddick from Texas Legislature Online (capitol.texas.gov member list and MemberInfo Code=A2610, robots allows /Members). Neither page prints party; Republican as on the SOS listing. house.texas.gov not used (robots disallows Claude agents per earlier runs).
Not recorded: Midland County offices, school board (Midland ISD), judges, Lieutenant Governor and other statewide offices. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read).
Robots/terms: www.midlandtexas.gov robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot (and other AI agents) that disallows admin/search/calendar/RSS/FAQ/bids-type paths only; Crawl-delay 10 honoured between page requests. Procedural note: /sitemap.xml was requested after robots.txt but before the ClaudeBot group's rules had been read in full; that group does not disallow it. Nothing was blocked for Midland.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.