Elections · U.S. House, District 23 · Texas

Katy Padilla Stout

Democrat On the November ballot

On the November ballot

Stout faces Brandon Herrera and Ben Mendoza for this seat on November 3, 2026.

Katy Padilla Stoutthis pageDemocrat · $485K

The general-election ballot as recorded September 21, 2026, not a prediction. Certified list: Texas Secretary of State; Certified List of Write-In Candidates (Federal, State, and District), including four U.S. Senate write-ins; Independent Candidate Filings for 2026, with each applicant's outcome. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.

The whole race

Where the money comes from

39%from small donors

Small donors: 39%$190K
Large donors: 52%$250K
PACs: 5%$23K
Party: --
Self-funding: 2%$9.8K
Other: 2%$12K

Separately, $566K in independent expenditures was reported for and against this candidate by outside committees. That money is not the candidate's receipts and is not part of the mix above.

Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.

How to vote in Texas

General electionNovember 3, 2026

All dates and rules

The district they want to represent

People: 771K
Median household income: $79K
Unemployment: 4.7%
Living below the poverty line: 13.6%
Without health insurance: 15.1%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate. These figures describe the district as drawn before its lines changed for 2026; estimates for the new lines are not yet published.

Against the field for this seat

Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, incumbent first and then by name, never in money order.

Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. A hollow row is a candidate with no finance report on file yet, not one who raised nothing. Showing 7 of the 8 campaigns that hold the seat, are on the ballot, or have $25,000 raised or outside spending; every filing is on the race page.

The whole race

Spending to support them

$157K

Somos PAC$103K
AB PAC$31K
Texas Organizing Project Political Action Committee$23K

Spending to oppose them

$408,768

Freedom Caucus Fund$173,252
No Going Back PAC$145,897
America PAC$86,419
Patriotic Leadership PAC$3,200

How these directions are decided

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC, through October 7, 2026. The supporting or opposing direction is each committee's own declared filing, not an interpretation, and a group spending against a candidate is not necessarily spending for their opponent. Outside money is not the campaign's money and is never added to what they raised.

Record in office

Stout does not hold a seat in Congress now, so there is no current voting record, cosponsorships or committee service to show here.

That absence is not a position for or against anything.

What the campaign says, on katyforcongress.com

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: Campaign photo, campaign website (reference use, candidate's own published headshot). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.

Cite this page

Project Curia. "Katy Padilla Stout: Texas House candidate, 2026." Sources: Federal Election Commission candidate and committee filings; National Conference of State Legislatures election dates and voter-registration rules; Texas Secretary of State ballot records; U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Data as of 2026-10-12. /elections/candidate/H-TX-23/H6TX23273

The citation names the source data used for this record.