Breckenridge Texan

By Carla McKeown/Breckenridge Texan

Election Day for the Breckenridge City Commission and Breckenridge school board, as well as the Fort Griffin Special Utility District board will be Saturday, May 2.

The school district and city will work together to provide one combined polling place for the two entities. Both elections will be held at the BISD Athletics Center, 607 W. Second St., from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Each organization will have separate ballots.

According to the City of Breckenridge’s website, 247 voters voted in the City election during the Early Voting period. In the school board election, there were 128 ballots cast during Early Voting, according to the BISD website.

Citizens must be registered to vote and must live in the district to vote in a specific election. For example, to vote for Breckenridge Mayor or City Commissioner, the voter must live within the city limits of Breckenridge; those Stephens County residents who do not live in the city will not be able to vote in the city election. Likewise, only people who live in the Fort Griffin Special Utility District will be able to vote in that election (voting locations listed below).

Stephens County has six school districts – Breckenridge, Moran, Woodson, Albany, Ranger and Graham. The Breckenridge ISD is the predominant school district in the county, and everyone who lives within the city limits of Breckenridge is in the Breckenridge ISD and can vote in that school board election. However, some county residents who live on the outer edges of the county may be in other school districts. For example, in the northwest corner of the county, residents might live, pay taxes in and vote in the Woodson ISD. The southwest corner of Stephens County is in Moran ISD, and the southeast corner is in Ranger ISD. One spot on the western county line, just west of Eolian, is in the Albany ISD, and a small area southwest of Eliasville is in the Graham ISD.

Your voter registration card should show which school district you are registered to vote in. Additionally, where you live also determines to which school district you pay property tax, and that will be the same district that you can vote in.

Basically, living outside the Breckenridge city limits means that you cannot vote in the City election and you may or may not be able to vote in the BISD election, depending on which part of the county you live in. If you are registered to vote and live in the city limits, you should be able to vote in both the BISD election and the City election.

BISD Election

The Breckenridge ISD election features four seats on the Board of Trustees with three places uncontested and four candidates for the fourth position.

The candidates for each place are:

• Trustee Place 3: Ty Bartoskewitz
• Trustee Place 4: This seat features four candidates: Paul Lippe, Leslie Hamilton, Tonya Wright-Taylor, and Kenneth Taylor
• Trustee Place 6: Nic McClymond
• Trustee Place 7: Chad Townson

City of Breckenridge Election

The City of Breckenridge’s 2026 General Election features a mayoral race and two commission seats.

The offices up for election and the respective candidates include:

Mayor:

• Bob Sims
• Paul Huntington Jr.
• Brent Ensey
• Kord Trammel

Commissioner Place 1:

• Blake Hamilton
• John Green

Commissioner Place 2:

• Justin Rose

Fort Griffin Special Utility District

The Fort Griffin Special Utility District is holding an election for three at-large board members.

On Election Day, May 2, the polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the following locations:

• 425 S. 2nd St., City Hall in Albany
• 108 County Road 221, Ridge Cowboy Church, west of Breckenridge
• 900 Main St., Moran ISD Activity Center, in Moran
• 117 W. Chestnut St., County Elections Office, in Throckmorton