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Your ballot checklist

Choose who you are voting for in each race, print the list, and take it with you. The office names match the ones on the county's ballot, so you can work down it in order.

This is a checklist, not a ballot

It is your own notes on 39 races — nothing more. It has no official standing and cannot be used to vote. Every candidate is read off Polk County's official sample ballot, and your own ballot carries only the precinct and school board races for where you live: find your precinct's sample ballot ↗.

Nothing picked yet. Only the races you fill in print. Who's on the ballot →
Not a ballot · my own notes from polktx.com · no official standing
Polk County, Texas

How I am voting

General election, Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · polls 7 AM to 7 PM · early voting October 19–30 · register by October 5

Polk County races
County Judge Unopposed Countywide
Judge, County Court at Law Unopposed Countywide
District Clerk Unopposed Countywide
County Clerk Countywide
County Treasurer Unopposed Countywide
Criminal District Attorney Unopposed Countywide
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 2 Unopposed Voting precincts 6, 17 and 21
County Commissioner, Precinct No. 4 Unopposed Voting precincts 1, 13, 14, 15 and 16
Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 1 Unopposed Voting precincts 2, 3, 4, 5, 19, 20 and 22
Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 2 Unopposed Voting precincts 6, 17 and 21
Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 3 Unopposed Voting precincts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 18
Justice of the Peace, Precinct No. 4 Unopposed Voting precincts 1, 13, 14, 15 and 16
Livingston ISD
Livingston ISD Board of Trustees (choice 1 of up to 4) Livingston ISD voters only
Livingston ISD Board of Trustees (choice 2 of up to 4) Livingston ISD voters only
Livingston ISD Board of Trustees (choice 3 of up to 4) Livingston ISD voters only
Livingston ISD Board of Trustees (choice 4 of up to 4) Livingston ISD voters only
Leggett ISD
Leggett ISD Board of Trustees (choice 1 of up to 3) Leggett ISD voters only
Leggett ISD Board of Trustees (choice 2 of up to 3) Leggett ISD voters only
Leggett ISD Board of Trustees (choice 3 of up to 3) Leggett ISD voters only
Chester ISD
Chester ISD Board of Trustees (choice 1 of up to 4) Chester ISD voters only
Chester ISD Board of Trustees (choice 2 of up to 4) Chester ISD voters only
Chester ISD Board of Trustees (choice 3 of up to 4) Chester ISD voters only
Chester ISD Board of Trustees (choice 4 of up to 4) Chester ISD voters only
State and district races
United States Senator Statewide
United States Representative, District 10 Congressional district 10
Governor Statewide
Lieutenant Governor Statewide
Attorney General Statewide
Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide
Commissioner of the General Land Office Statewide
Commissioner of Agriculture Statewide
Railroad Commissioner Statewide
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas Statewide
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 2 (unexpired term) Statewide
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 7 Statewide
Justice, Supreme Court, Place 8 Statewide
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 3 Statewide
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 4 Statewide
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 9 Statewide
Member, State Board of Education, District 8 SBOE district 8
State Senator, District 3 Senate district 3
State Representative, District 9 House district 9
Chief Justice, 15th Court of Appeals District Court of appeals district
Justice, 15th Court of Appeals District, Place 2 Court of appeals district
Justice, 15th Court of Appeals District, Place 3 Court of appeals district
Chief Justice, 9th Court of Appeals District Unopposed Court of appeals district
District Judge, 258th Judicial District Unopposed Polk, San Jacinto and Trinity counties
Amendments and propositions
None. The county's official sample ballot carries no constitutional amendment and no local bond, tax or district measure. The March propositions were party propositions and are finished.
Before I leave the house
  • Photo ID. Expired up to four years is fine at 18–69; any length at 70 or over.
  • No photo ID — take a registration certificate, utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck and ask for the Reasonable Impediment Declaration.
  • Need help voting, or trouble standing in line? Say so at the door. No proof required.
  • Confirm my polling place first at the Secretary of State's My Voter Portal.
polktx.com/elections · candidates from the county's official sample ballot, read 2026-10-19
Not a ballot · the County Clerk publishes the official sample ballot

How this works

Pick, don't write

Each race is a menu of the people actually on it, so what you carry in matches the ballot in front of you. There is nowhere to type a name, which is what keeps a printed sheet from looking like a ballot someone has filled in.

Unopposed races

13 of the 39 races have one candidate, no opponent and no write-in line on the county's official sample ballot. They are marked so on screen and on the print.

Only your races are on your ballot

The commissioner, justice of the peace and school board races appear only in certain voting precincts. Each one says which. Skip the ones that are not yours; anything left on "not decided" prints as a blank line.

Nothing is saved

What you pick stays in this browser tab and goes nowhere. No account, no submission, and PolkTX never sees it. Reset clears every race at once, and closing the tab does the same thing — there is nothing to delete afterwards.

Sources · 7

UPDATED 2026-10-19 FROM THE COUNTY’S OFFICIAL SAMPLE BALLOT. Polk County has published its sample ballots for the November 3, 2026 general election: one two-page ballot for each of 39 ballot styles, created October 1. Every race and every name on this page was read off that document, and the race list is exactly the list of contests it carries. Which ballots carry the Commissioner and Justice of the Peace races, and the three school board races, is read off the precinct number printed at the top of each ballot. Ballot styles with a suffix (ILV, ILG, ICH) are the parts of a voting precinct inside Livingston, Leggett or Chester ISD. WHAT CHANGED: the county races carry the same names the March primary and May runoff produced, and the races marked unopposed are confirmed: one name, no write-in line. The 24 state, district and court races now carry names; before the sample ballot came out they were listed empty. The school board races were not known before. REMOVED: the City of Livingston’s Mayor and two Alderman seats. Not one of the 39 ballot styles carries them. The city’s August 24 certification of unopposed candidates lets the council cancel the election and declare those three elected, and the sample ballot is consistent with that. PolkTX has not found the cancellation order itself, so this page does not say it happened. The sample ballot is the county’s document. Where anything here disagrees with it, the county is right. Your own precinct is on your voter registration certificate or the Secretary of State’s My Voter Portal.