Cities in Texas

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Cities by state


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Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of elections in the 100 largest cities in America by population and the largest counties that overlap those cities. This encompasses all city, county, judicial, school district, and special district offices appearing on the ballot within those cities.

This page includes the following resources:

Cities

City government

Click the links in the table below for information about the cities in Ballotpedia's coverage scope and the county governments that overlap those cities:

City County
Arlington Tarrant County
Austin Travis County, Williamson County
Corpus Christi Nueces County
Dallas Collin County, Dallas County, Denton County
El Paso El Paso County
Fort Worth Denton County, Tarrant County
Garland Collin County, Dallas County
Houston Fort Bend County, Harris County
Irving Dallas County
Laredo Webb County
Lubbock Lubbock County
Plano Collin County, Denton County
San Antonio Bexar County

According to a 2022 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, this state's local governments consist of 254 counties, 1,225 cities, towns, and villages, and 2,984 special districts.[1]

Elections

Click the links below for information about the elections held in each municipality. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of municipalities that held elections each year in this state; click here to learn more about Ballotpedia's local government coverage scope.

2024

See also: United States municipal elections, 2024 and School board elections, 2024

2023

See also: United States municipal elections, 2023 and School board elections, 2023

2022

See also: United States municipal elections, 2022 and School board elections, 2022

2021

See also: United States municipal elections, 2021 and School board elections, 2021

2020

See also: United States municipal elections, 2020 and School board elections, 2020

Past elections


Initiative process availability

See also: Laws governing local ballot measures in Texas

There is no statewide initiative process set for general law cities. As creatures of state statute, general law cities do not have authority to adopt initiative elections on their own.

Initiative is only available in charter cities. State statutes mandate an initiative process for citizens to propose charter amendments through petition. Charter cities also have authority to permit an initiative process for ordinances. The top 10 most populated cities in Texas all operate under a home rule charter. 9 of the 10 (all except Arlington) authorize initiative for ordinances.[2][3]

See also

Texas Municipal government Other local coverage
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External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Census of Governments – Organization," accessed October 16, 2023
  2. ↑ Texas Municipal League, "Chapter One, Local Government in Texas," accessed August 23, 2013 (archived)
  3. ↑ Ballotpedia, "Types & #s of local government by state," September 2012
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