About the 2025 Re-Precincting
Texas Election Code Chapter 42 requires that counties review their election precincts in odd years to determine if they are in compliance with Sections 42.005, 42.006, and 42.007, which describe the jurisdictional and population requirements for county election precincts. Harris County bi-annually completes this process of “re-precincting” with the last review and compliance changes being approved by Commissioners Court on May 8, 2025.
In the Summer of 2025, Texas redrew the State’s congressional district boundaries for the 2026 elections. As a result, 66 election precincts were no longer in compliance with Texas Election Code §42.005, requiring Harris County to re-precinct for a second time in 2025.
Per the Code, election precincts are required to be contiguous and (in descending priority):
- Contained entirely within one each of the following jurisdictions:
- County Commissioner precinct
- Justice precinct
- Congressional district
- State Representative district
- State Senatorial district
- State Board of Education district
- With a population between 100 – 5000 registered voters (unless the above requirements are otherwise unable to be met)
- Contained entirely within either incorporated or unincorporated territory (unless the above requirements are otherwise unable to be met)
Re-precincting is different from re-districting in that the boundaries for elected officials remain the same. Only “election precinct” boundaries are adjusted, so there are no changes to any voters’ ballots in terms of who they can vote for, or where they can vote. The changes voters may see on their ballots would be due to re-districting, rather than re-precincting itself.
The proposed boundary adjustments appeared twice on the Commissioners Court Agenda:
- Thursday, November 13, 2025: Item approved to notice the proposed changes to election precincts and set a date for a Public Hearing to adopt those proposed changes.
- Thursday, November 20, 2025: the Public Hearing, and an item approved to adopt the proposed election precinct boundary changes if the U.S. Supreme Court approved Texas’s use of the new congressional district maps, which the U.S. Supreme Court did on December 4, 2025.
If you have questions about this project and the below election precinct boundary proposals, please contact:
Traci Buttram
Manager of Operations
Office of County Administration
[email protected]
Please Note: Registered voter population data as of 09/02/2025. Estimates for the registered voter populations of proposed election precincts may be updated based on new voter registrations/processing.