Residents in Southwest Austin and Dripping Springs will be presented with local, state and federal races on their ballot on Election Day. The following are some of the top races to keep in mind going into Election Day. For a full list of ballot items, visit our voter guide.

City of Austin

Austin mayor
  • Carmen D. Llanes Pulido
  • Jeffery L. Bowen
  • Doug Greco
  • Kirk Watson*
  • Kathie Tovo
Austin City Council, District 2
  • Vanessa Fuentes*
  • Robert Reynolds
City of Austin Proposition P:

“Shall an untaxed area in the City of Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, containing 35 lots on approximately 96.9 acres of land on Menchaca Road south of Slaughter Lane, be released from the City of Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and into unincorporated Travis County, with the result that the Area will no longer be governed by the City’s environmental and development regulations?”

Read more about the proposition here.


Travis County

District Attorney, 53rd Judicial District
  • Daniel W. Betts (R)
  • José Garza* (D)
Travis County Proposition A

“Approving the ad valorem tax rate of $0.344445 per $100 valuation in County of Travis for the current year, a rate that is $0.025 higher per $100 valuation than the voter-approval tax rate of County of Travis, for the purpose of increasing access to affordable and high-quality child care and afterschool/summer programming and related services for low-income families and developing and administering related workforce and economic development programs. Last year, the ad valorem tax rate in County of Travis was $0.304655 per $100 valuation.”

Read more about the proposition here.


Hays County

Hays County judge, Court-at-Law Number 3
  • Robert E. Updegrove (R)
  • Elaine S. Brown (D)
Hays County district clerk (unexpired term)
  • Philip Muzzy (R)
  • Amanda K. Calvert (D)
Hays County sheriff
  • Anthony Hipolito Jr. (R)
  • Alex Villalobos (D)
Hays County Proposition A

The city will issue $439,634,000 in bonds to build, maintain, and operate roads. A tax will be levied to pay off the bonds and interest.

Read more about the proposition here.


Austin ISD

Board of trustees, District 2
  • LaRessa Quintana
  • Sarah Ivory
Board of trustees, At-Large Position 8
  • Lindsey Stringer
  • Nathaniel Hellman
  • Dylan "Sky" MacAdams
  • Nick Franke
  • Fernando Lucas de Urioste
  • Amy Moore
Austin ISD Proposition A

“Ratifying the ad valorem tax rate of $0.9505 per $100 valuation in the Austin Independent School District for the current year, a rate that will result in an increase of 8.3 percent in maintenance and operations tax revenue for the district for the current year as compared to the preceding year, which is an additional $184,628,049.”

Read more here.


Austin Community College District

ACC, Trustee, Place 7
  • Sherri Lynn Taylor
  • Cole Wilson
ACC, Trustee, Place 9
  • Joe Sefton
  • Julie Ann Nitsch
Federal and state elections

President
  • Donald J. Trump (R)
  • Kamala D. Harris (D)
  • Chase Oliver (L)
  • Jill Stein (G)
U.S. Senate
  • Ted Cruz* (R)
  • Colin Allred (D)
  • Ted Brown (L)
Texas Railroad Commission
  • Christi Craddick* (R)
  • Katherine Culbert (D)
  • Hawk Dunlap (L)
  • Eddie Espinoza (G)
Texas Supreme Court Justice — Place 2
  • Jimmy Blacklock* (R)
  • DaSean Jones (D)
Texas Supreme Court Justice — Place 4
  • John Devine* (R)
  • Christine Vinh Weems (D)
Texas Supreme Court Justice — Place 6
  • Jane Bland* (R)
  • Bonnie Lee Goldstein (D)
  • J. David Roberson (L)
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals — presiding judge
  • David J. Schenck (R)
  • Holly Taylor (D)
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals — Place 7
  • Gina Parker (R)
  • Nancy Mulder (D)
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals — Place 8
  • Lee Finley (R)
  • Chika Anyiam (D)
Texas House District 19
  • Dwain Handley (D)
  • Ellen Troxclair* (R)
Texas House District 45
  • Tennyson Moreno (R)
  • Erin Zwiener* (D)
Texas House District 47
  • Scott Firsing (R)
  • Vikki Goodwin* (D)
Texas House District 48
  • Donna Howard* (D)
  • Daniel Jerome McCarthy (L)
Texas House District 73
  • Sally Duval (D)
  • Carrie Isaac* (R)
U.S. House of Representatives, District 10
  • Theresa Boisseau (D)
  • Michael T. McCaul* (R)
  • Jeff Miller (L)
U.S. House of Representatives, District 21
  • Kristin Hook (D)
  • Bob King (L)
  • Chip Roy* (R)
U.S. House of Representatives, District 37
  • Girish Altekar (L)
  • Lloyd Doggett* (D)
  • Jenny Garcia Sharon (R)
State Senate District 25
  • Donna Campbell* (R)
  • Merrie Fox (D)
Where to vote

Voting locations on Nov. 5 are open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Residents can vote at any voting station in the county in which they are registered to vote.