2026 Midterm Election
- When is Early Voting? Early voting begins Monday, Oct. 19 and runs through Friday, Oct. 30.
- When is Election Day? Tuesday, Nov. 3, is Election Day and polling locations will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. You can vote if you’re in line by 7 p.m. on Election Day.
- Federal races: (U.S. Senate, U.S. House)
- State races: (Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, GLO Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, State Board of Education, Texas Senate, Texas House)
- County races: (Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Rockwall)
- Judicial races: (Texas Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals, Court of Appeals, District Courts, County Courts, Justice of the Peace Courts)
- Bonds and Props: There are several bonds and propositions on ballots; they’re broken down here by schools, municipalities and counties.
- Previous results: Here are the results from the March primary and runoff.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will face off with Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa in a tight race for governor in the November midterm elections.
Abbott held off 10 challengers in the May primary elections and is currently serving his third term as Texas Governor. There is no term limit for the governor of Texas, and each term lasts 4 years.
Hinojosa has represented Texas’s 49th district in the Texas House for five terms, each lasting two years.
Pat Dixon with the Libertarian Party is also running in the gubernatorial race. He has served two terms as a member of the Lago Vista City Council and held several leadership roles within the Libertarian Party.
Abbott and Hinojosa have been on the campaign trail since their nominations in the March primary. They’ve made several stops in Tarrant County, which has been at the center of several major political battles in Texas. It is the largest swing county in Texas between Republicans and Democrats and has garnered nationwide attention over redrawing legislative boundaries.
In late August, Hinojosa met with Democratic candidates, party leaders and voting rights advocates in Tarrant County to strategize for the final stretch of the campaign.
Abbott also met with Tarrant County’s Republican county judge and commissioners about his effort to limit local spending, require elections for tax increases and use state money to “buy down” and eliminate local school taxes.
Decision 2026
In an NBC 5 Dallas/Telemundo Station Group Texas Voter Poll released in September, Gov. Greg Abbott led with support from 48% of the likely voters interviewed for the poll. Democrat State Rep. Gina Hinojosa had support from 41%; 8% remained undecided; 2% backed write-in candidate Jenn Mack Raphoon; and Libertarian Pat Dixon had 1% support.
But in November, the University of Texas Texas Politics Project poll found Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa at 49% among likely voters, compared with 48% for Republican incumbent Greg Abbott.
In an interview after the poll came out, Abbott said his data showed he was making progress.
“Americans are tired of polls; they don’t trust polls, neither do I. What I know is what my data shows, and what my data shows is that we are making tremendous progress every single day because Texans are figuring out exactly who Gina Hinojosa is,” Abbott said.
Abbott has plenty to say about his opponent, calling her one of the most liberal politicians in the state, soft on crime and on illegal immigration. Hinajosa, however, has called on him to air all these views publicly in a statewide televised debate.
“Greg Abbott and myself have been invited to four debates. He has hid from all four invitations. I have accepted all four. He won’t debate me because he can’t defend his indefensible record. And I believe that if he’s not man enough to debate me, then he doesn’t deserve to be governor,” Hinojosa said in an interview.
When previously asked why he would not debate his candidate, Abbott said that he believed the best way to reach voters was in their communities.
“Listen, what I have learned by winning elections for governor, and that is the most important thing we can do, is to go to these communities. Talk to the people of Texas in their towns. Let them talk to me personally, whether it be in a coffee shop, in a manufacturing facility — whatever. Texans want to see their governor show up to their community,” Abbott said.
The week before early voting started in Texas, Hinojosa set up podiums for a debate outside the governor’s mansion in Austin to call out Abbott for avoiding a statewide televised debate.
Abbott responded on social media, saying in part: “This morning’s circus in Austin was no sincere attempt to debate: a standing podium reachable only by stairs, purposefully designed to keep someone in a wheelchair from participating.”
Decision 2026
Greg Abbott Campaign
Abbott is campaigning on issues including property tax reform, lowering home and auto insurance costs, increasing competition in the energy market and making Texas #1 in public education.
He has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, National Border Patrol Council, Texas Municipal Police Association, Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas and Association of Texas EMS Professionals.
Gina Hinojosa Campaign
Hinojosa is campaigning on issues including improving public schools and lowering healthcare, grocery, and utility costs.
She has been endorsed by State Rep. James Talarico, the Texas AFL-CIO and the Texas American Federation of Teachers. As well as U.S. Reps. Lloyd Doggett, Greg Casar, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, Vicente Gonzalez, Julie Johnson and other lawmakers.
Pat Dixon Campaign
Dixon is campaigning on issues such as opposing tax incentive programs for data centers,reducing government spending, supporting “statewide scholarship” for education and more.
Early voting for the midterm election runs Monday, Oct. 19 through Friday, Oct. 30. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.
