San Antonio: 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 districts covering San Antonio (TX-20, 21, 23, 35 on the 2025 map); Governor and other statewide offices; Texas Senate and House seats (city hall: SD-26, HD-123); Bexar County offices. No City of San Antonio offices..

Holding office20

the sitting council

On the ballot20

6 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Texas's 20th congressional district (city hall, 100 Military Plaza); the city spans TX-20, 21, 23 and 35 on the 2025 map used for the 2026 election (TX-20, 21, 23, 28 and 35 on the 119th Congress map of the sitting members) — Joaquin Castro (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Gina Ortiz Jones Elected unofficial	Mayor	Independent		City of San Antonio

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Edward Mungia Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of San Antonio
Ivalis Meza Gonzalez Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of San Antonio
Jalen McKee-Rodriguez Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of San Antonio
Marc Whyte Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 10	City of San Antonio
Marina Alderete Gavito Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of San Antonio
Misty Spears Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 9	City of San Antonio
Phyllis Viagran Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of San Antonio
Ric Galvan Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of San Antonio
Sukh Kaur Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of San Antonio
Teri Castillo Elected unofficial	Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of San Antonio

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-123

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Diego M. Bernal Elected	State Representative → Running	Democratic		Texas House of Representatives

State Senator — SD-26

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
José Menéndez Elected	State Senator → Running	Democratic		Texas Senate
Julián Villarreal	State Senator Running	Green		Texas Secretary of State

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-20

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Joaquin Castro Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives
Edgardo Rafael Baez	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-21

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Chip Roy Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Kristin Hook	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State
Mark Teixeira	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-23

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Ben Mendoza	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Texas Secretary of State
Brandon Herrera	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Texas Secretary of State
Katy Padilla Stout	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-28

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Henry Cuellar Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Representative — TX-35

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Carlos De La Cruz	U.S. Representative Running	Republican		Texas Secretary of State
Johnny C. Garcia	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic		Texas Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TX-37

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Greg Casar Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic		U.S. House of Representatives

Notes on this record

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

Municipal: Mayor and 10 district Council Members. sanantonio.gov robots.txt disallows all crawlers (User-agent: * Disallow: /) and www.sa.gov (the city's current site) returns Akamai 'Access Denied' (403) to direct fetch, including robots.txt; neither was bypassed. The roster was read from the search-engine index of the City Clerk's official Elected Officials page (https://www.sa.gov/Directory/Departments/OCC/Archives-Records/History/Elected-Officials, term June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2027) and the sa.gov council district/biography pages; Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones took office 2025-06-18 after the 2025-06-07 runoff (City canvass report). No city photos or emails linked because sa.gov could not be fetched. Re-verify when sa.gov is reachable. San Antonio has no other city-wide elected office (city attorney, clerk and manager are appointed).
Next San Antonio municipal election: the general election for Mayor and all 10 council seats is held in May of odd years (two-year terms, starting June 1) — next on Saturday 2027-05-01 (runoff in June 2027 if needed). No City of San Antonio offices are on the 2026-11-03 ballot.
Congressional districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb polygons for San Antonio city (place 4865000) sampled on a 120x120 grid (5,498 points inside the city). 120th Congress map (the 2025 Texas map used for the 2026 election): TX-35 (38%), TX-20 (28%), TX-21 (18%), TX-23 (16%). 119th Congress map (the sitting members): TX-20, 23, 21, 28, 35. City hall (100 Military Plaza) is TX-20 in the Census geocoder. Slivers smaller than the grid spacing (~0.5 km) could be missed.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Texas table), retrieved 2026-10-15. TX-23 is VACANT: Tony Gonzales resigned 2026-04-14 (Clerk of the House, https://clerk.house.gov/members/TX23/vacancy); the office is run by the Clerk. Henry Cuellar (TX-28) is on the November ballot for TX-28, which no longer covers San Antonio on the 2025 map; Greg Casar (TX-35) is on the ballot for TX-37 (not a San Antonio district on the 2025 map); Chip Roy (TX-21) is not on the general ballot. TX-21, TX-23 and TX-35 are open seats in 2026. Only the TX-20, 21, 23 and 35 races (2025 map) are listed as candidates; TX-28/TX-37 challengers are not.
U.S. Senators (John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, both Republican): senate.gov returns HTTP 403 (also for robots.txt); not bypassed; names as in the merged Houston record from the search-index listing of https://www.senate.gov/states/TX/senators.htm. Cornyn is NOT on the November ballot; the Senate seat is open (Ken Paxton R, James Talarico D, Ted Brown L).
State: Governor from the Texas SOS Statewide Elected Officials page (Greg Abbott, R, term expires 2026). City hall's state districts (SD-26, HD-123) from the Census geocoder 2026 state legislative layers; members from senate.texas.gov (José Menéndez, D, 'Senate Member: 2015 - present') and house.texas.gov/members/123 (Diego M. Bernal). Districts covering the city (same grid): Texas Senate 5 (SD-19, 26, 25, 21, 24) and Texas House 11 (HD-116 to 125 and a sliver of HD-53); only city hall's are listed per the brief.
Candidates: Texas SOS Candidate Information (Civix 'goelect' public JSON endpoint findQualifiedCandidates, election 53815 '2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION', office types FD and SR), retrieved 2026-10-15. Kept: filing status CG ('Candidate in the General Election') with declaration ACCEPTED; dropped: write-ins (party W) and rejected independent applications (e.g. Jade Simmons for U.S. Senate; Gerard Anthony Villalobos TX-20; Sarah Bowman Cunningham and Demetra Jefferson Wysinger for Governor). Names title-cased; printed form kept in ballotName/runningBallotName. The list carries mailing addresses and emails: not copied and deleted from the working copy. Websites only where the SOS list prints a campaign site. No standsFor captured.
Unopposed: Texas House District 123 (Diego Bernal, only qualified candidate).
Robots/terms: sanantonio.gov (robots.txt disallows all), sa.gov and senate.gov (403, not bypassed), house.gov (allows), clerk.house.gov (no robots.txt), sos.texas.gov (empty robots.txt), goelect.txelections.civixapps.com (no robots.txt; no terms shown), senate.texas.gov and house.texas.gov (allow member pages), geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (public Census services).

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.