{"id":246146,"date":"2026-04-12T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:49:30","slug":"texas-2026-election-your-may-primary-election-runoff-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246146\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas 2026 election: Your May primary election runoff ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t-copy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/newsletters\/the-brief\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=trib-ads-owned&amp;utm_campaign=trib-marketing&amp;utm_term=inline-CTA-brief\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for The Brief<\/a>, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copy\">Texas will hold its 2026 runoff elections on May 26. The winners of the runoff elections will head to the general election in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copy\">Early voting in the runoff runs from May 18 to 22, and April 27 is the last day to register to vote. A total of 38 races will have runoffs because the candidates in those races didn\u2019t receive more than 50% of the vote during the March 3 primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copy\">This ballot page is maintained by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization dedicated to helping you navigate Texas policy and politics \u2014 including the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/series\/texas-2026-election-voting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/series\/texas-2026-election-voting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copy\">You also may see county and local runoff elections on your ballot. Sample ballots for specific counties can be found through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.county.org\/About-Texas-Counties\/Texas-County-Websites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">list of county websites<\/a> maintained by the Texas Secretary of State\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copy copy--narrative\">All Texan voters can cast a ballot in statewide runoff races, which includes U.S. Senator, attorney general, lieutenant governor and railroad commissioner. There are two Democratic and four Republican statewide\u00a0races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"t-copy font-italic\">Disclosure: The Texas secretary of state, Julie Johnson, Vikki Goodwin, Joe Jaworski and Beth Llewellyn McLaughlin have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune\u2019s journalism. Find a complete list of them<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/support-us\/donors-and-members\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/support-us\/donors-and-members\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Illustration by Alfredo Palacios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune\u2019s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-246146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246146","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=246146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}