Nationwide coverage & sources

Elected-office inventory · United States

32,405 documented seats in our partial inventory. Complete elected-seat total: still being established.

91,438 independent local governments and 1,318 dependent school systems in the Census discovery list, dated June 30, 2025. Government units are not elected seats. Appointed boards and overlapping districts require individual checks.

Texas November 3, 2026: 3,384 documented election scopes covering 3,452 seat opportunities. These include signed unopposed cancellations and are not all active ballot contests. General and special elections for the same office are separate contests. Local ballots, cancellations, write-ins and later amendments remain under review; these counts do not establish 100% coverage.

Shared offices count once in the overall inventory. County figures include documented shared offices and cannot be added together. The inventory includes source dates from 2026 and is not a complete current roster.

Texas governing-body seat ledger

Reviewed 2026-09-30: 5,093 governing bodies and office groups, documenting 17,184 directly elected positions. These overlap the inventory above; do not add the totals.

Each entry records election method, capacity, source evidence and county overlap. Combined offices count once. Appointed and ex-officio memberships are excluded from elected positions. Unverified boundaries and full county totals remain unknown.

The 5,651 government entities in the discovery queue are research leads, not an elected-seat total. Historical position counts are excluded from current coverage ratios.