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Texas Election Code § 232.006

Venue

Contests for Office · Trial and Disposition of Contest

(a) The venue of an election contest for a statewide office is in Travis County.

(b) The venue of a contest for an office less than statewide that is filled by voters of more than one county is:

(1) in the county in which the contestee or any one of the contestees named under Section 232.003 resides if the residence is in the territory covered by the election; or

(2) in any county wholly or partly in the territory covered by the election if:

(A) no contestee named under Section 232.003 resides in that territory; or

(B) none of the contestees is named under Section 232.003.

(c) The venue of a contest for an office filled by voters of only one county is in that county.

Official text of the Texas Election Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

Official source
Legislative history

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

This section refers to

§ 232.003