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Calhoun County, TX

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. Senate
3 candidates
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Ken Paxton
REP
Biography
Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, winning the nomination over incumbent John Cornyn in the state's marquee 2026 primary fight. Texas's attorney general since 2015, he built a national profile suing the federal government and pressing election-integrity cases. His campaign theme is unshakable, unbroken, unafraid.
Top Priorities
  • Take the fight against the Washington establishment to the Senate
  • Continue his record of suing federal overreach and enforcing election integrity
  • Keep Texas a conservative stronghold
Campaign Finance
$7,605,209 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (88% of receipts), Small-dollar donors under $200 (23% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile
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James Talarico
DEM
Biography
James Talarico is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, an eighth-generation Texan, former middle school teacher, Presbyterian seminarian, and state representative. His campaign against corruption has drawn record grassroots support, raising more than $40 million with two-thirds from donors giving under $200, in one of the country's most watched Senate races.
Top Priorities
  • Take the fight against corruption to Washington
  • Win power back for working people from billionaire mega-donors
  • Invest in public schools and affordable health care
Campaign Finance
$40,284,109 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (67% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (12% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile
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Ted Brown
Biography
Ted Brown is a retired independent insurance adjuster from Austin and a longtime Libertarian Party officer who serves as his state party's candidate coordinator, per his campaign site. His 2024 run for this seat drew a record vote total for a Libertarian Senate candidate in Texas, per Houston Public Media.
Top Priorities
  • Repealing the federal income tax
  • A non-interventionist foreign policy
  • Ending the federal war on drugs
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Governor
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Greg Abbott
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Greg Abbott is Texas's incumbent governor and the Republican nominee for a fourth term, which would make him the state's longest-serving governor. A former attorney general and state supreme court justice, he launched his re-election bid with a property tax reform plan, and his tenure is defined by border security through Operation Lone Star, school choice legislation, and economic development.
Top Priorities
  • Cut and reform property taxes with his Empowering Texas Taxpayers plan
  • Continue border security through Operation Lone Star
  • Keep growing Texas jobs and defending constitutional freedoms
Key voting record
Signed Texas's education savings account program into law in 2025 after making school choice his top legislative priority. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Gina Hinojosa
DEM
Biography
Gina Hinojosa is the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, a state representative from Austin, attorney, and former Austin school board president. Her populist campaign argues tax dollars are being spent to pad the pockets of the well-connected, with priorities focused on affordability, public education, and health care access.
Top Priorities
  • Quality and accessible health care for all Texans
  • An affordable Texas that works for everyone
  • Back-to-basics public education, not vouchers
Campaign siteFull profile
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Pat Dixon
Biography
Dixon is the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Texas; he has held several executive-level positions in private industry, non-profit, and political organizations, has worked with the Texas legislature since 2004, and is an engineer and business owner through DPAS-INC, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Apply limited-government principles to Texas
  • Expand individual liberty and free markets
  • Offer a third-party alternative for governor
Campaign siteFull profile
Lieutenant Governor
4 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Dan Patrick
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Dan Patrick is Texas's incumbent lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee for a fourth term. A former radio host and state senator, he has presided over the Texas Senate since 2015, driving conservative priorities on border security, property taxes, and school choice.
Top Priorities
  • Continue conservative leadership of the Texas Senate
  • Cut property taxes and secure the border
  • Advance school choice and family values legislation
Campaign siteFull profile
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Vikki Goodwin
DEM
Biography
Vikki Goodwin is the Democratic nominee for Texas lieutenant governor, a state representative from Austin and real estate broker. Her campaign theme is a good win for Texas, promising a Senate leader who collaborates rather than dictates, with priorities on public schools, clean water and energy, housing affordability, and health care.
Top Priorities
  • Fund neighborhood public schools, not private school vouchers
  • Protect clean water and a reliable energy grid
  • Make housing and health care affordable
Campaign siteFull profile
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Kevin McCormick
Biography
McCormick holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston Law Center and has most recently worked as a high school math teacher in San Antonio, per the campaign site. He previously ran for Congress in Texas's 24th District as a Green Party candidate in 2016 and now lives in the Lindale area of east Texas, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding public transit
  • Investing in the rural economy
  • Election reform including ranked choice voting
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Anthony Cristo
Biography
High school English and debate teacher Anthony Cristo is a military veteran who resides in Cibolo, Texas, per his campaign site. He is the Libertarian Party candidate for Texas Lieutenant Governor. Anthony Cristo appears on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Lieutenant Governor, per the Texas Secretary of State's certified candidate list.
Top Priorities
  • Cutting both taxes and spending
  • Free market economics
  • Marijuana legalization
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Mayes Middleton
REP
Biography
Mayes Middleton is the Republican nominee for Texas attorney general in the open race created by Ken Paxton's Senate run. A seventh-generation Texan, oil company president, attorney, and state senator who chaired the Texas House Freedom Caucus, he authored the Save Women's Sports Act, and his platform emphasizes the border, election integrity, and a DOGE-style attack on government waste.
Top Priorities
  • Secure the border and enforce deportation orders against criminal networks
  • Ensure strict election integrity and voter ID enforcement
  • Root out government waste, fraud, and abuse
Key voting record
Authored and passed the state law barring men from competing in women's collegiate sports, along with the nation's strongest COVID vaccine mandate ban.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Nathan Johnson
DEM
Biography
Nathan Johnson is the Democratic nominee for Texas attorney general, a state senator from Dallas and attorney. His campaign argues the office has been corrupted and abused for personal and partisan ends, and points to his Senate record reforming the state insurance marketplace, fortifying the power grid after Winter Storm Uri, and leading on Medicaid expansion.
Top Priorities
  • Restore an attorney general's office that works for Texans, not partisans
  • Take on market abuse and political corruption
  • Protect Texans' rights, freedoms, and access to health care
Campaign siteFull profile
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Tom Oxford
Biography
Tom Oxford is a personal injury and civil rights attorney who owns a law firm near Beaumont and belongs to the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, per the San Antonio Report. No campaign website was found as of September 3, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Tom Oxford.
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Comptroller
4 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Don Huffines
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Don Huffines is the Republican nominee for Texas comptroller and, as of July 2026, the appointed incumbent after Governor Abbott installed him in the office he had already won the nomination for. A fifth-generation Texan, real estate developer, and former state senator, his platform is to DOGE Texas government: eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse and demand honest, transparent budgets.
Top Priorities
  • DOGE Texas government to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse
  • Demand honest, transparent state budgets
  • Keep Texas dollars in Texas and defend taxpayers
Campaign siteFull profile
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Sarah Eckhardt
DEM
Biography
Sarah Eckhardt is the Democratic nominee for Texas comptroller, a state senator from Austin, attorney, and former Travis County judge. Her campaign promises to tell Texans honestly where their money is going, targeting no-bid contracts, the private school voucher program, and corporate tax breaks.
Top Priorities
  • Stop no-bid contracts and audit the voucher program
  • Tell Texans honestly where their tax money goes
  • Fight health care costs and break single-party rule
Campaign siteFull profile
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Shehla Faizi
Biography
Faizi is a graphic designer with a career in advertising and marketing journalism who was raised in Karachi, Pakistan, and moved to Texas in 2012, per the campaign site. She became politically active after 2016 and volunteered for the Green Party's 2024 presidential campaign before running for comptroller, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Keeping Texas tax dollars in Texas
  • Ending tax breaks for large corporations
  • Restoring checks and balances to the office
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza
Biography
V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza is on the Texas Secretary of State's certified list of November 3, 2026 candidates as the Libertarian nominee for comptroller; the SOS filing records the occupation chief financial officer. No campaign website was found as of September 3, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for V. Alonzo Echavarria-Garza.
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Agriculture Commissioner
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Nate Sheets
REP
Biography
Sheets is a candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner and an agriculture entrepreneur and beekeeper who built a large branded honey business from a backyard operation; he is also a U.S. Navy Reserves veteran, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Bring agribusiness experience to the agriculture department
  • Support Texas farmers and ranchers
  • Restore integrity to the office
Campaign siteFull profile
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Clayton Tucker
DEM
Biography
Tucker is a candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner and a farmer and rancher who operates a family farm near Lampasas raising cattle, goats, and donkeys; he previously served as Secretary of the Texas Farmers Union and worked as a water researcher and teacher, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Stand up for family farms and ranches
  • Promote fair trade for Texas producers
  • Protect rural water and land
Campaign siteFull profile
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Austin R. Kelly
Biography
Kelly holds a Ph.D. in ecology and founded ARK Ecological Consulting; he is running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner and describes himself as a scientist rather than a career politician, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Water conservation protecting aquifers and groundwater rights
  • Property rights and fighting eminent domain abuse
  • Removing barriers to selling what farmers grow
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Land Commissioner
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Dawn Buckingham
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Dawn Buckingham is Texas's sitting land commissioner, per the Secretary of State's statewide officials roster, elected in 2022 as the first woman to hold the office. An eye surgeon and former state senator, she was the first Republican elected to the Texas Senate from Travis County, per her campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Border security through General Land Office land actions
  • Public education funding through the Permanent School Fund
  • Veterans programs through the Veterans Land Board
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Benjamin Flores
DEM
Biography
Benjamin Flores announced in 2026 that he had been diagnosed with leukemia, stayed in the race, and later announced he was in remission, per the Texas Tribune; he remains an active candidate. A Bay City councilman with a background in cybersecurity and compliance, he won a two way Democratic primary and was endorsed by the Austin American-Statesman in that round, per the San Antonio Report.
Top Priorities
  • Directing General Land Office revenue toward public schools
  • Expanding Veterans Land Board programs and outreach
  • Protecting Texas beaches and strengthening storm-recovery programs
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Neill Snider
Biography
Neill Snider is the Libertarian candidate for Texas Land Commissioner. He has worked as a mechanical contractor for nearly four decades and operates a small cattle ranch, with experience as an oil and gas investor in East Texas, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • reducing the taxpayer burden through transparent management of state lands and mineral rights
  • supporting responsible energy production and fair leasing practices
  • reducing spending within the General Land Office
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Railroad Commissioner
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Bo French
REP
Biography
Bo French is a former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, an energy trader and rancher who has owned businesses providing security for energy companies, per the San Antonio Report. He won the May 26 runoff over sitting commissioner Jim Wright, per the Texas Tribune.
Top Priorities
  • Reducing regulation on Texas oil and gas producers
  • Enforcing state restrictions on foreign ownership of Texas land
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Jon Rosenthal
DEM
Biography
Jon Rosenthal is a four term Texas House member from Houston who spent 25 years in oil and gas as an engineer and project manager, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Data center energy policy
  • Fair and affordable gas utility rates
  • Texas energy jobs
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Arthur DiBianca
Biography
Arthur DiBianca is a longtime Libertarian activist from Austin who has testified before the Texas Legislature, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Free market energy policy without subsidies or mandates
  • Defending mineral and surface property rights
  • Operator accountability for well plugging through bonding and insurance
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Supreme Court, Chief Justice
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Jimmy Blacklock
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Jimmy Blacklock is the incumbent Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, appointed to the court in 2018 and named the 28th Chief Justice in January 2025, per the court's official biography. He previously served as General Counsel to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Top Priorities
  • Applying the Constitution and law as written rather than 'legislating from the bench', per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
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Maggie Ellis
DEM
Biography
Maggie Ellis is a justice on the Texas Third Court of Appeals, elected to that court in 2024, per the court's official biography. Before joining the bench she practiced law representing individuals and is Board Certified in Juvenile Law, per the same source.
Top Priorities
  • Fair treatment of the public and access to the courts, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Supreme Court, Place 2 (Unexpired Term)
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Chari Kelly
DEM
Biography
Chari Kelly is a justice on the Texas Third Court of Appeals, elected in 2019, per the court's official biography. Before the bench she was a felony prosecutor in Travis and Comal counties and an Assistant Attorney General, and she is a former U.S. Army paratrooper and captain.
Campaign siteFull profile
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James P. Sullivan
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
James P. Sullivan is the incumbent on the Texas Supreme Court, appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott in January 2025, per the court's official biography. He previously served as the Governor's General Counsel and as an Assistant Solicitor General, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Top Priorities
  • Applying the Constitution and law as written, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Supreme Court, Place 7
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Kristen Hawkins
DEM
Biography
Kristen Hawkins is the judge of the 11th District Court in Harris County, elected in 2016 and reelected in 2020, per her campaign site. She holds board certifications in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Law.
Top Priorities
  • Civility, professionalism and respect in the legal profession, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
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Kyle D. Hawkins
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Kyle D. Hawkins is the incumbent on the Texas Supreme Court, appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott in October 2025, per the court's official biography. He previously served as Texas Solicitor General.
Top Priorities
  • Humility, diligence and applying the law as written, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Supreme Court, Place 8
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Gisela D. Triana
DEM
Biography
Gisela D. Triana is a justice on the Texas Third Court of Appeals, elected in 2018, per the court's official biography. She previously spent 14 years as judge of the 200th District Court.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Brett Busby
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Brett Busby is the incumbent on the Texas Supreme Court, appointed in 2019 and elected in 2020, per the court's official biography. He previously served six years as a justice on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston.
Top Priorities
  • Applying laws faithfully without rewriting them from the bench
  • Expanding access to justice, including a licensing system for legal paraprofessionals
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Thomas Smith
REP
Biography
Thomas Smith has served as Special Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Justice in the Texas Attorney General's office since 2015, per his campaign site. He earlier practiced civil law and clerked for an Ohio Supreme Court chief justice.
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Okey Anyiam
DEM
Biography
Okey Anyiam is a criminal defense lawyer in Dallas who has practiced law since 1997, per the San Antonio Report. No campaign website was found as of September 15, 2026.
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Mark Ash
Biography
Mark Ash is a candidate for Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the state's certified candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 15, 2026.
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Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Kevin Patrick Yeary
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Kevin Patrick Yeary is the Republican candidate for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4, and the sitting judge, having served on the court for ten years, per his campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Audra Riley
DEM
Biography
Audra Riley is the presiding judge of Criminal District Court 3 in Dallas County, per the San Antonio Report. No campaign website was found as of September 15, 2026.
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Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 9
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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John Messinger
REP
Biography
John Messinger is the Republican candidate for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 9. He is a career appellate prosecutor with the Office of the State Prosecuting Attorney since 2011, previously worked in the McLennan County District Attorney's Office, and is a Baylor Law School graduate, per his campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Holly Taylor
DEM
Biography
Holly Taylor is a criminal defense attorney who spent more than 17 years as a prosecutor, per the San Antonio Report.
Top Priorities
  • An independent voice ensuring fair and thorough case review
  • Upholding the Constitution and treating everyone with dignity
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Court of Appeals, 15th District, Chief Justice
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Scott Brister
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Scott Brister is the Republican candidate for Chief Justice of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals, a position he has held since the court's creation in September 2024, per his campaign site. He previously served six years on the Texas Supreme Court, three years as a justice and chief justice of the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals, and eleven years as presiding judge of the 234th District Court in Harris County. He is a Duke University and Harvard Law School graduate.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Jerry Zimmerer
DEM
Biography
Jerry Zimmerer previously served as an elected justice on the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston for six years, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Court efficiency, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Court of Appeals, 15th District, Place 2
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Scott K. Field
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Scott K. Field is the incumbent Place 2 justice on the Fifteenth Court of Appeals, per the court's official biography. He previously served as the inaugural judge of the 480th District Court in Williamson County. No campaign website was found as of September 15, 2026.
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Tom Baker
DEM
Biography
Tom Baker is a U.S. Navy JAG Corps veteran who previously served as an elected justice on the Third Court of Appeals in Austin from 2019 to 2024, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Judicial impartiality regardless of party affiliation, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
Court of Appeals, 15th District, Place 3
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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April Farris
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
April Farris is the Republican candidate for the Fifteenth Court of Appeals. She was appointed to the court by Governor Abbott effective September 1, 2024, after previously serving as a justice on the First Court of Appeals, and worked as an appellate litigation partner and assistant solicitor general for the State of Texas, per her campaign site. She is a Harvard Law School graduate and clerked for Fifth Circuit Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod.
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Marc M. Meyer
DEM
Biography
Marc M. Meyer is a retired Houston Fire Department captain and paramedic with 20 years of service who now practices law defending health care providers, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Protecting individual rights against state power, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile

Countywide races in Calhoun County

ZIP 77978 sits in Calhoun County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Calhoun County races (3).

Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District, Place 6
2 candidates
County ▾
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Clarissa Silva
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Clarissa Silva has served on the Thirteenth Court of Appeals, Place 6, since January 1, 2021, per MyRGV reporting. She previously worked as a prosecutor in the Nueces County District Attorney's Office and the San Patricio County Attorney's Office.
Top Priorities
  • Protecting constitutional principles, due process and fair application of the law, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
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John Ball
DEM
Biography
John Ball practices family and criminal law in McAllen and previously worked in the Hidalgo County District Attorney's Office Border Prosecution Unit, per his campaign site. He is double board certified in Criminal Law and Family Law.
Campaign siteFull profile
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