Where Do I Vote in Texas? What the New Map Changes — and What It Doesn't

Where you vote in Texas is county business. Polling places are assigned by county election offices, precinct by precinct, and published at votetexas.gov — the Secretary of State’s voter site — and on each county’s own pages before every election. The state’s new congressional map did not move a single polling-place door, and no redistricting plan does.

What the map moved is the ballot. Texas enacted PLANC2333 in a second special session in 2025, redrawing all 38 of its U.S. House districts for the 2026 election. If the new lines put your address in a different district, the House race you vote in on November 3 is different from the one your neighborhood voted in two years ago — same polling place, different candidates on the page.

Same Address, Different Ballot

Two Austin-and-Dallas landmarks show the distance between the seated map and the November one:

• The Texas Capitol (1100 Congress Ave, Austin) sits in the 37th District today, represented by Lloyd Doggett, and votes in the 10th in November.
• Dallas City Hall (1500 Marilla St, Dallas) sits in the 30th District today and votes in the 33rd.

Both facts are real at once. The representative for any Texas address, until January 3, 2027, is the one elected under the previous lines; the district that address votes in this fall comes from PLANC2333. A mailer, a lookup tool, or a spreadsheet that carries only one of the two numbers is answering half the question.

The Map’s Legal Posture

PLANC2333 was enacted by the 89th Legislature in its second called session of 2025. A three-judge federal court ruled against the plan; in December 2025 the U.S. Supreme Court stayed that ruling while the state’s appeal proceeds, and the merits remain pending. That posture — in effect, under challenge — is where the map stands as of August 20, 2026, and it is the posture elections officials are administering: the 2026 election runs on the enacted lines unless a court orders otherwise.

Texas is one of ten states with a new congressional map this cycle. The full list, with each state’s plan and status, covers the other nine.

What to Check, and Where

• Your polling place, registration, and dates: votetexas.gov and your county election office. County sites post early-voting and Election Day locations before each election.
• The enacted map itself: the Texas Legislative Council publishes PLANC2333, with district-by-district detail, on the state Capitol’s data site.
• Your address, both answers at once: the free lookup on this site returns the district serving your address today and the district it votes in for 2026, with the plan’s status and the date that status was last checked.

RevAddress, which publishes this site, keeps the two districts as two separate fields for exactly this reason — the seated district carries its representative; the 2026 district carries a status and a source, and no representative, because no one has been elected to it. For a whole file of addresses, Campaign File Clean applies the same two-map assignment to every row. The company calls each row’s result a reading, and says a reading describes the address — its districts and its representatives — never the household or the person at it. It does not sell, source or append voter data.

The short version: the county decides where you vote, the map decides what you vote on, and this year in Texas those are worth checking separately.