Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a special election<\/a> on Nov. 4 to elect the person who will finish out the term that expires in January 2027.<\/p>\n Who can vote? Texas’ 18th congressional district (Photo: U.S. House website) <\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n Registered voters who live in Texas\u2019 18th Congressional District can vote in the special election.\u00a0<\/p>\n District 18 encompasses a portion of Harris County.<\/p>\n Click here to find your district.<\/a><\/p>\n In order to vote in the Nov. 4 election, voters must have registered by Oct. 6. Click here <\/a>to check if you are registered.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Who are the candidates? <\/p>\n There was no primary election to narrow down the field of candidates, so 16 names will appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n In order to win, a candidate will need to get more than 50% of the vote. If no single candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the race will head to a runoff between the top two candidates who got the most votes.<\/p>\n Here are the candidates in the order they appear on the ballot:<\/a><\/p>\n Ollie J. Knox – Republican PartyAmanda Edwards – Democratic PartyJolanda Jones – Democratic PartyTheodis Daniel – Republican PartyVince Duncan – IndependentGeorge Edward Foreman IV – IndependentIsaiah R. Martin – Democratic PartyTammie Jean Rochester – Green PartyChristian Dashaun Menefee – Democratic PartyValencia Williams – Democratic PartyRonald Dwayne Whitfield – Republican PartyReyna Anderson – IndependentCarter Page – Republican PartyFeldon Bonner II – Democratic PartyStephen Huey – Democratic Party\u00a0Carmen Maria Montiel – Republican Party What else is on the ballot? Texas constitutional amendments <\/p>\n Every voter in Texas will be able to vote on 17 propositions in the Texas Constitutional Amendment Election.<\/p>\n Voters will be able to choose whether to approve amendments to the state\u2019s constitution impacting everything from property taxes to bail to dementia research.<\/p>\n Local elections <\/p>\n Voters in several counties will see elections on positions and measures that impact their community. That might include bonds, school board trustees, city council positions or bonds impacting utility districts.<\/p>\n Sample ballots:<\/p>\n Click here to see the sample ballot<\/a> for your area.<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this article comes from the Texas Secretary of State website, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Harris County sample ballot and previous FOX 26 reporting.<\/p>\n Election<\/a>Houston<\/a>Harris County<\/a>Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – A special election is being held in November to fill late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner\u2019s seat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,405,56,223,287,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-12313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/td-18.jpg\")
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