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2026 Texas General Election

2026 Texas Primary Election

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2026 Texas Primary Runoff

Dyana Limon-Mercado

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Dyana is from Austin, Texas. She attended Austin High School. She has an associate’s degree from Austin Community College, a bachelor’s degree in management from Texas State University, and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She lives with her husband and two daughters in South Austin.

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Dyana is the County Clerk for Travis County. She works at the Travis County Clerk’s Office. She previously worked as the executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, as a court clerk in the Travis County Central Booking magistrate courtroom, and in the Texas Legislature focusing on advancing criminal justice reform bills through the House Committees on Corrections and County Affairs.

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Dyana Limon-Mercado is currently the Travis County Clerk. She was elected in 2022 and is serving her first term. She previously served as Chair of the Travis County Democratic Party from 2018 to 2020.

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Supports expanding early voting locations.

Supports promoting a community input process for selecting early voting locations.

Supports collaborating with Commissioners Court to secure investments for increasing poll worker pay, procuring new equipment and locations, and updating information systems to enhance voter accessibility and information.

Plans to fully implement a court case management system for criminal cases to allow efficient online access to electronic documents.

Supports enhancing integration between county and district court systems to promote accessibility.

Supports continuing to provide remote options for conducting business to enhance accessibility and public health.

Administration

- Serves as clerk of county’s commissioners court, attending and recording all sessions, as well as holding all records associated with the Court. Also assists county judge in court agenda preparation and posting notice for each meeting, along with other services requested by the Court.
- Works with judges, defendants, jurors, and attorneys of various courts, doing things like filing cases, issuing processes, maintaining minutes of court proceedings, collecting costs and fines, and arranging for commitments and appeals.
Administers all county and state elections as chief elections officer, except when the Commissioners Court has the tax assessor-collector or county elections administrator do that.
- Can serve as county recorder, where they determine whether a document is suitable for filing.They maintain documents like birth, death, and marriage certificates and real estate records, and act as a liaison to the Vital Statistics Section of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
- County clerks are elected through partisan, county-wide elections to four-year terms. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old, have been a Texas resident for at least 12 consecutive months, a county resident for at least six consecutive months, and registered to vote in that county.
- The annual salary for county clerks range from $42,000 to $183,999, set by the county’s commissioners court.

Serves as clerk of county court and commissioners court.

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