Review documented positions, matched officials and every election date and type on file. Full county totals are still being established; no county is certified complete.
Texas documented inventory
10,037 matched official slots / 19,129 documented seats statewide. The full expected total remains unknown.
60 seats await governing-power review; 14 slots have unresolved official conflicts; 0 seats exist but cannot yet be tied to a specific stored office. These are separate holds.
Selection methods: 16,532 public-electorate seats, 1,080 restricted landowner seats and 1,517 unclassified seats. Seats with unverified county electorates remain in the Texas inventory but are withheld from county totals. The dated seat ledger download includes their rules and evidence.
Potter County
Full expected elected positions: Unknown. This includes every office kind serving the county and remains unresolved.
72 matched official slots / 96 documented seats. 75.0% of this documented inventory. This is not a percentage of every elected position.
0 documented slots have unresolved official conflicts. Matches use the same seat groups and county links as the denominator, with current official evidence observed within 30 days; disputed matches are withheld.
0 documented seats await review of who currently exercises governing powers. Their elected capacity remains included, but no officials are matched to these seats until that review is complete. This count is separate from occupant conflicts.
Documented selection methods: 78 public-electorate seats; 0 seats elected by qualifying landowners; 18 seats awaiting selection-method classification. These subtotals partition the documented inventory. Landowner eligibility is explained below; it is not a claim that every resident can vote in those elections.
County/local directory: 80 official profiles on file, including 0 profiles with unconfirmed directory memberships. Their numbered seats or election method remain unresolved. These profile counts are separate from matched elected slots.
Shared offices can serve several counties. County totals overlap and must not be added to calculate a Texas total. Historical benchmarks are excluded from current position totals and ratios.
Reviewed office inventories
These inventories review specific office kinds. Their seats are already included above where county links are verified. Each inventory states whether its county total is established. Other office kinds and the full county total remain unresolved.
District-court judgeships
Review required: the dated inventory had 5 positions. Its current expected total and coverage percentage are withheld until the dated scope and any effective changes are reviewed.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-01. All 504 current numbered/specially numbered district courts and 13 criminal district courts. Excludes appellate, county, justice, municipal, business, associate and visiting judges.
Within this dated inventory: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 5 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — PDF page 1, District Courts: 517 elected judicial positions; district-by-district statutory and current-directory reconciliation.
Commissioners courts and sheriffs
6 expected elected positions serving Potter County · 6 matched official slots · 0 conflicting slots. 100.0% official coverage within this office scope.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-23. Exactly one county judge, four commissioners and one sheriff in each of the 254 Texas counties. Excludes all other county offices. A sheriff performing combined tax duties remains one position.
Within this dated inventory: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 6 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — Article V Sections 15, 18(b) and 23: one county judge, four commissioners and one sheriff per county. Reconciled across all 254 county identities.
County treasurers
1 expected elected positions serving Potter County · 1 matched official slots · 0 conflicting slots. 100.0% official coverage within this office scope.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-23. The single countywide elective treasurer office where legally existing: all 254 Texas counties screened, ten constitutionally abolished offices excluded. No auditors, deputies, treasury employees, municipal treasurers, or additional ex-officio assignments.
Within this dated inventory: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 1 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — Current Article XVI §44(a),(b),(d); subsection (c) concerns surveyors only
- Official capacity source — All 254 county selector options: 244 treasurers, nine explicit no-elected-treasurer entries and Bee auditor entry, corroborating the legal exceptions
- Official capacity source — May 2026 current compilation through November 4, 2025; PDF pages 135–136 / printed 130–131, Article XVI §44 amendment chronology and 1999 preservation of prior abolitions
Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals
18 expected elected positions serving Potter County · 18 matched official slots · 0 conflicting slots. 100.0% official coverage within this office scope.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-23. Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals only; every legally current elective position, including vacancies or appointees to elective seats. No future Fifteenth Places 4/5, staff, assigned judges, county trial courts or extra seats for multiple hearing locations.
Within this dated inventory: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 18 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — Article V §§2,4,6: elective appellate offices
- Official capacity source — §§22.015,22.112,22.201,22.216: complete seat capacities and county districts
- Official capacity source — September 2026 chart page 1: 9+9 highest and 80+3 intermediate seats
Fifteen intermediate courts of appeals
7 expected elected positions serving Potter County · 7 matched official slots · 0 conflicting slots. 100.0% official coverage within this office scope.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-23. Fifteen intermediate courts of appeals only; every legally current elective position, including vacancies or appointees to elective seats. No future Fifteenth Places 4/5, staff, assigned judges, county trial courts or extra seats for multiple hearing locations.
Within this dated inventory: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 7 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — Article V §§2,4,6: elective appellate offices
- Official capacity source — §§22.015,22.112,22.201,22.216: complete seat capacities and county districts
- Official capacity source — September 2026 chart page 1: 9+9 highest and 80+3 intermediate seats
Local soil and water conservation district directors
County total unknown: county boundaries and electorates need review. The expected number of positions and coverage percentage for Potter County are withheld.
The complete 216-district statewide universe does not establish current district/subdivision electoral county intersections. County expected totals and ratios remain unknown; any independently linked seats are only a documented subset. Principal counties, service areas and historical polygons do not establish an electorate. 0 documented positions have verified links to this county. This is a reviewed subset, not the county total; zero linked records does not establish that no positions serve the county.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-23. Continuing director positions on Texas local SWCD governing boards under Agriculture Code Chapter 201 only. Restricted landowner elections; excludes the TSSWCB state board, convention delegates, staff, other water-district types and historical predecessors. Current officials and election calendars are separate reviews.
Within the subset with verified county links: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 0 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — Release date March 25, 2026; paragraph beginning Established in 1939 explicitly states 216 local SWCDs and 1,080 locally elected district directors.
- Official capacity source — Cover dated August 7, 2026; PDF pages 4 and 7 (administrator statement) explicitly state 216 Texas local SWCDs.
- Official capacity source — Release date June 23, 2026; paragraph beginning Through partnerships states 216 local SWCDs.
- Official capacity source — Report dated January 1, 2026; printed pages 5 and 8 state 216 local SWCDs; page 8 describes five locally elected directors.
- Official capacity source — Sections 201.003, 201.046, 201.071–201.074; five continuing local director positions, eligibility, initial appointments and rotating election cycle.
Common school district trustees
County total unknown: county boundaries and electorates need review. The expected number of positions and coverage percentage for Potter County are withheld.
Six current COMMON districts and their 30 underlying elected trustee positions are reconciled statewide. Current district/seat electoral county intersections are unreviewed. County expected totals, reviewed capacity and ratios remain unknown; principal counties and the words County or County Wide do not establish electoral boundaries. 0 documented positions have verified links to this county. This is a reviewed subset, not the county total; zero linked records does not establish that no positions serve the county.
Reviewed 2026-09-23; review required by 2026-10-23. Underlying elective trustee positions of the six distinct ACTIVE Texas districts classified COMMON in the September 23, 2026 AskTED exact-ID join only. Excludes INDEPENDENT districts including military and municipal districts, charter organizations, university special-purpose schools, state institutions, junior colleges and appointed governance bodies. No whole-school-sector or county completeness claim.
Within the subset with verified county links: 0 seats await governing-power review. Selection methods: 0 public-electorate seats, 0 restricted landowner seats and 0 unclassified seats.
- Official capacity source — DistrictTable exact ACTIVE set joined on six-digit TEA ID to COMMON classification; exact IDs 022004,053001,066005,086024,131001,135001.
- Official capacity source — District Number and District Type columns: exact COMMON IDs 022004,053001,066005,086024,131001,135001; deduplicate repeated campus rows by exact district ID. Classification only, not capacity or electorate.
- Official capacity source — BBB(LOCAL): three at-large elected members; four-year terms; one expiring seat in the 2026 cycle and two in the 2024 cycle. Policy references a July 28, 2008 DOJ letter available from the superintendent; letter not obtained. Do not invent numbered places.
- Official capacity source — BBB(LOCAL): seven members; six single-member Districts1-6 and one at-large; four-year terms; November elections.
- Official capacity source — BBB(LOCAL): three members, at-large plurality; four-year staggered terms; November elections. Roster Place labels are not silently converted to separate contests.
- Official capacity source — BBB(LOCAL): seven members, at-large plurality; three-year staggered terms; annual May elections.
- Official capacity source — BBB(LOCAL): three members, at-large plurality; three-year terms, one trustee elected each May.
- Official capacity source — BBB(LOCAL): seven members, at-large plurality; three-year terms; annual May elections. Current district administration page independently confirms seven elected at-large positions.
Elections on file for Potter County
Dates and election types remain separate, including past results, primaries, runoffs, general and special elections. Counts include contests with no candidate records. Several candidates may seek one seat, so candidate counts are never divided by elected positions.
Won, lost, withdrawn, disqualified and unknown records are preserved as statuses; they are not all active candidates. A missing date means no election data is on file for that date, not that no election occurs.
2026-11-03 · General
Expected contests: Unknown · Expected seat opportunities: Unknown.
37 documented contests · 37 known seat opportunities · 0 contests with unknown seat counts.
37 contests have candidate records · 0 have no candidate records · 83 distinct candidate profiles · 83 candidacy records.
Candidacy records by recorded status| Declared | Running | Won | Lost | Withdrew | Disqualified | Unknown |
|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 |
County election coverage uses recorded ballot-county links only. Contests without county mapping remain in the statewide JSON audit and need reconciliation.