HOUSTON — Tuesday, Nov. 5 is Election Day, as voters head to the polls to pick the next President of the United States. Other key races people in the Houston area and across Texas will decide include the race for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House, Harris County District Attorney, the HISD $4.4 billion bond and other key local, state and national races.
KHOU 11 will have you covered throughout Election Day, from before polls open until well after they close.
At 4 p.m. watch KHOU 11’s live coverage on air and on KHOU 11+, which you can download for free on Roku, FireTV and AppleTV. At 6 p.m., our live streaming coverage of Election Night continues on KHOU 11+ with updates from election officials, our panel of experts, and KHOU 11 News teams spread across the city and state. Streaming coverage will continue through the night into KHOU 11 Morning News from 4:30 a.m. until 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning, and we'll have more streaming coverage on KHOU 11+ after that.
KHOU 11 will also have live results throughout the night and the next day on KHOU.com and the KHOU 11 mobile appl
Key races on the ballot
PRESIDENT: VP Kamala Harris and former President Trump top the ballot
Former President Donald Trump is vying to return to the White House after one term out of it. VP Kamala Harris looks to keep the Democrats at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
U.S. SENATE: Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred
KHOU 11's Len Cannon sat down with both Cruz and Allred to talk over the issues facing voters on the Nov. 5 ballot and their positions on them.
Senator Ted Cruz and challenger Colin Allred went head-to-head in their first and likely only debate. You can watch the full debate live below in English and in Spanish.
RELATED: Our VERIFY team looked at claims from the debate between Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred
U.S. HOUSE DIST. 18: Why there are two races on the ballot for U.S. House District 18
There are two races on the ballot for U.S. House District 18. That's the seat formerly held by the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. One race on the ballot is to finish the rest of her term that runs through January. The other is to take it over for at least the next two-year term.
Jackson Lee's daughter, Erica Lee Carter, is running in the special election to finish her mother's term. She'll be up against Maria Dunn and Kevin O. Dural.
In the other race for District 18, which is the one that would begin in January, former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will be the Democrat on the ballot up against Republican Lana Centoze.
HISD Bond election
HISD has two bond items on the Nov. ballot -- HISD Bond Prop A, which is $3.96B and and HISD Bond Prop B, which is $440M. Below is previous reporting from KHOU 11 on the bonds, what they include and reaction.
RELATED: More than 160 people show up to speak at last HISD board meeting before vote on historic bond
What's on the HISD Bonds, from the district:
$1.04 billion toward creating safe and healthy campuses
- Security upgrades to 263 campuses and 25 non-campus facilities.
- HISD police upgrades
- HVAC upgrades at 188 campuses
- Lead abatement at 134 campuses
$1.07 billion toward making campuses "future-ready"
- Three new CTE centers in the North, South, and West divisions
- Renovation of Barbara Jordan Career Center
- PreK expansion with an estimated 4,000 new seats
- District-wide technology and IT upgrades
$2.27 billion toward restoring HISD schools
- 43 individual school investments like renovations, rebuilds and expansions to address urgent facility needs
