Harris County posts sample ballots and voter information for March 3 primary

Harris County Clerk's Office Elections Department has posted sample ballots and voter resources for the March 3, 2026 primary, with bilingual PDF excerpts showing Democratic primary contests and page numbers such as Page 2 of 9, Page 5 of 9 and Page 7 of 9. Local news guides from FOX 26 Houston and Yahoo/KRIV flag that Texans will vote in either the Democratic or Republican primary and that the choices will appear on the November ballot.

The county's official early voting schedule is set by HarrisVotes as Early Voting (FEB 17 - FEB 27). Day-by-day hours on the HarrisVotes calendar are FEB 17–FEB 21, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; FEB 22, 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; and FEB 23–FEB 27, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Election Day polling hours on March 3 are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. HarrisVotes lists the deadline to apply for a ballot by mail as FEB 20; Yahoo/KRIV notes that voters needed to be registered by Feb. 2 in order to vote in the March 3 election.

Voters can look up their precinct-specific sample ballot and vote-center locations via the HarrisVotes "Sample Ballot" and Vote Centers menus, and FOX 26 Houston published a Harris County-focused guide with links and instructions to access those resources. Ballotpedia also offers a sample ballot lookup tool to find every election on file for an address, and Yahoo/KRIV points to the Texas Secretary of State "Am I Registered" portal, which accepts identifying information such as a Texas driver license number to show registration status and provide early voting and Election Day polling locations. Harris County Clerk's Office contact details are listed on HarrisVotes at 15600 Morales Road, Houston, TX 77032; phone (713) 755-6965; voters@harrisvotes.com; ADA@vote.hctx.net. The HarrisVotes site cautions, "The Harris County Clerk's Office Elections Department makes a diligent effort to post accurate information on this website, but assumes no liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result of errors, omissions, or discrepancies."

Sample ballot image fragments in the county materials show bilingual headers such as "SAMPLE BALLOT / BOLETA DE MUESTRA" and voting instructions "Vote for none or one / Vote por ninguno o uno." The scanned Democratic primary pages include named contests and candidates: Dem - Chief Justice, Supreme Court with MAGGIE ELLIS and CORY L. CARLYLE; Dem - Railroad Commissioner JON ROSENTHAL; Dem - Commissioner of Agriculture CLAYTON TUCKER; Dem - Criminal District Judge, 482nd Judicial District VERONICA M. NELSON; Dem - Criminal District Judge, 495th Judicial District TIFFANY M. HILL; Dem - Criminal District Judge, 496th Judicial District MICHAEL ABNER and RAMONA FRANKLIN; and justice of the peace contests listing STEVE DUBLE, DOLORES LOZANO, OSCAR SALAZAR, JR, LUCIA BATES, SEAN SIMON, NASIR MALIK and JOSE LOYA.

Ballotpedia's Harris County candidate listings and county data include the Harris County Attorney (Special) field with Abbie Kamin (D), Audrie Lawton-Evans (D) and Jacqueline Lucci Smith (R); Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 1 with Sonia Lopez (D) and Paul Coselli (R); Civil Court at Law No. 2 with Jim Kovach (D), Ebony Williams (D) and Mark Montgomery (R); Civil Court at Law No. 3 with Miroslava Mendiola (D), LaShawn Williams (D) and Israel Garcia Jr. (R); Harris County Clerk with Teneshia Hudspeth (D), Lynda Sanchez (R) and Mike Wolfe (R); and Harris County Department of Education Board of Trustees Position 5, At-Large with Erica Davis (D), Salvador Serrano (D) and Sartaj Bal (R). Ballotpedia also provides a county profile listing Harris County population as 4,731,145 and demographic figures drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau and the American Community Survey 2015-2020 estimates.

The posted sample ballot pages are partial in the county scans and some contest pages are truncated, so voters should use the HarrisVotes sample ballot lookup or Ballotpedia's sample ballot tool to confirm which contests and candidate names will appear on their specific Democratic or Republican primary ballot. Ballotpedia notes, "= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey," and its pages do not provide election results; contact the Harris County Clerk's Office at the Morales Road address or by phone for official questions.