Calhoun County
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Vern LyssyRepublican IncumbentAllen TippitDemocratic
On ballot as
VERN LYSSY
ALLEN TIPPIT
Current role
Calhoun County Judge
Program director (per Secretary of State filing)
Background
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Experience
- County judge since December 13, 2024, following the death of County Judge Richard Meyer (per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Previously held the Precinct 2 seat, Commissioners Court (per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Republican primary (March 2026): won, 1,748 votes to Stacy O'Donnell's 1,095 and Linda Graham's 330 (unofficial results, per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Port Lavaca City Council (more than five years; resigned December 4, 2025 to run for county judge) (per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Ran for county judge (2016), against Judge Richard Meyer (per candidate, to Port Lavaca Wave)
Top priorities
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- "If you're a small business owner and you want to start a business, I want to make sure that you have an even playing field to be able to do that"
- "we have more coastline than any other county in the state of Texas yet it is the most underdeveloped in terms of tourism."
- "I could get us more housing, more tourism, cleaner water, cleaner environment."
Tidbits
- Property taxes and budget: No public statement found
- Growth and infrastructure: No public statement found
- Flooding and drainage: No public statement found
- Public safety: No public statement found
- Property taxes and budget: No public statement found
- Growth and infrastructure: Announcing his run in December 2025: "we have more coastline than any other county in the state of Texas yet it is the most underdeveloped in terms of tourism."
- Flooding and drainage: No public statement found
- Public safety: No public statement found
Endorsements
None found in our research
None found in our research
Campaign website
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Vern Lyssy
Republican Incumbent- On ballot as
- VERN LYSSY
- Current role
- Calhoun County Judge
- Background
- Not found
- Experience
- County judge since December 13, 2024, following the death of County Judge Richard Meyer (per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Previously held the Precinct 2 seat, Commissioners Court (per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Republican primary (March 2026): won, 1,748 votes to Stacy O'Donnell's 1,095 and Linda Graham's 330 (unofficial results, per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Top priorities
- Not found
- Tidbits
- Property taxes and budget: No public statement found
- Growth and infrastructure: No public statement found
- Flooding and drainage: No public statement found
- Public safety: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- Not found
Allen Tippit
Democratic- On ballot as
- ALLEN TIPPIT
- Current role
- Program director (per Secretary of State filing)
- Background
- Not found
- Experience
- Port Lavaca City Council (more than five years; resigned December 4, 2025 to run for county judge) (per Port Lavaca Wave)
- Ran for county judge (2016), against Judge Richard Meyer (per candidate, to Port Lavaca Wave)
- Top priorities
- "If you're a small business owner and you want to start a business, I want to make sure that you have an even playing field to be able to do that"
- "we have more coastline than any other county in the state of Texas yet it is the most underdeveloped in terms of tourism."
- "I could get us more housing, more tourism, cleaner water, cleaner environment."
- Tidbits
- Property taxes and budget: No public statement found
- Growth and infrastructure: Announcing his run in December 2025: "we have more coastline than any other county in the state of Texas yet it is the most underdeveloped in terms of tourism."
- Flooding and drainage: No public statement found
- Public safety: No public statement found
- Endorsements
- None found in our research
- Campaign website
- Not found
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