Hays County Accepts Official Canvass of Nov. 3 Election

Hays County’s Commissioners Court on Nov. 10 accepted the canvassed returns from the Nov. 3 general election and declared the local results final, Community Impact reported on Nov. 13. The county’s official 2026 meeting calendar lists Nov. 10 as a regular court date. Official Commissioners Court pages say the court meets at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays at the Hays County Historic Courthouse, 111 E. San Antonio Street, San Marcos, Texas 78666, unless a meeting is canceled.

The county’s November 3, 2026, General Election page says official results are available and lists Monday, Nov. 9, as the date for the canvass and release of official results. Official minutes and a complete agenda packet with a labeled canvass item were not opened for this report. The share figures below are the canvassed percentages Community Impact published. That article did not include raw vote totals, and none are added here.

County offices

Community Impact reported that Democrat Michelle Gutierrez Cohen won the county judge’s race with 59.66 percent, over Republican Geoffrey Tahuahua at 36 percent and independent Liz “Sumter” Gajdos at 4.34 percent. In Precinct 2, Democrat Johnny Flores was reported at 69.19 percent, ahead of Republican Abby Gibson at 30.81 percent. In Precinct 4, Democrat Angie Unger was reported at 50.87 percent and Republican Rob McClelland at 49.13 percent, a margin of about 1.74 percentage points, by our math from those published shares.

San Marcos, Kyle, and Buda

In San Marcos, Community Impact reported, Amanda Rodriguez, now the Place 6 council member, won the mayor’s race with 72.82 percent to Ryan Thomason’s 27.18 percent. Incumbent Alyssa Garza kept Place 3 with 65.74 percent over Jane Hughson at 34.26 percent. Heather Hunter unseated incumbent Shane Scott in Place 4, 67.46 percent to 32.54 percent. Lisa Prewitt won Place 6 with 51.19 percent, over Juan Miguel Arredondo at 35.21 percent and Bill Miller at 13.59 percent.

In Kyle, incumbent Melisa Medina held District 2 with 56.4 percent to Miguel A. Zuniga’s 43.6 percent, the paper said. Two other Kyle races are not finished. Community Impact reported that no one topped 50 percent for mayor or for District 4, so those contests go to a Dec. 12 runoff. Incumbent Yvonne Flores-Cale, at 49.95 percent, will meet Robert Rizo, at 37.99 percent, for mayor. Leah Kaufman, at 47.01 percent, will meet Kenneth Rocha, at 27.55 percent, in District 4. The paper, citing its earlier coverage, also said Kyle will fill a vacated District 3 seat on the same Dec. 12 date, and named five candidates: Mario Reyes, Mark Schmidt, Larry D. Stamps, Alex Villalobos, and Zachary A. Coppedge.

In Buda, Community Impact reported that Jessie Clayton won the District B seat with 71.43 percent to Irving Davis’s 28.57 percent. George M. Torres Jr. took the at-large Position 1 contest with 52.11 percent, ahead of Jessica “Jess-Ebee” Ebisch at 24.27 percent and Joshua Edmond at 23.62 percent.

Accepting the canvass makes the completed races official. It does not decide the Kyle runoffs or the District 3 special election still set for Dec. 12. Community Impact did not publish a roll-call vote on the canvass, and this report does not infer one. Other items on the same day’s docket are not reported here because their outcomes were not recorded in the Community Impact article used for this story.

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