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Editor’s note–Certain provisions from the following ordinances were provided for by state law and were omitted from the 1983 Code of Ordinances: Ordinance 852, secs. 1, 6, adopted 2/16/1948 and Ordinance 1528, sec. 1, adopted 2/11/1954. Additionally, Ordinance 9320, sec. 1(1), adopted 12/14/1989, repealed sections 8-5 through 8-14 of the 1983 Code of Ordinances as being superseded by the Texas Election Code. Such sections pertained to the conduct of elections and derived from Ordinance 852, secs. 2–5, adopted 2/16/1948; Ordinance 1528, sec. 1, adopted 2/11/1954; and the 1959 Code, secs. 10-2 through 10-5 and 10-7 through 10-17.
The regular municipal election for the election of municipal officers of the City of Lubbock shall be held on the first Saturday of May of every even-numbered year in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Texas Election Code.
(Ordinance 852, sec. 1, adopted 2/16/1948; Ordinance 1528, sec. 1, adopted 2/11/1954; Ordinance 5421, sec. 1, adopted 2/22/1968; 1983 Code, sec. 8-1; Ordinance 9143, sec. 1, adopted 11/19/1987)
Where in any regular municipal election no candidate receives a majority of all of the votes cast for such office at such election, the city council shall, immediately upon declaring the official results of such election, call a runoff election for every office to which no one was elected. Such runoff election shall be held on the last Saturday of May, unless another day is stated in the order calling the runoff election, and in such runoff election the two (2) candidates who received in the preceding election the highest number of votes for each office to which no one was elected shall be voted on again and the candidate who receives the majority of the votes cast for such office in the runoff election shall be declared elected to such office.
(Ordinance 852, sec. 1, adopted 2/16/1948; Ordinance 1528, sec. 1, adopted 2/11/1954; 1983 Code, sec. 8-2; Ordinance 9143, sec. 1, adopted 11/19/1987)
All elections shall be conducted and the results canvassed and announced by city authorities as prescribed by the election laws of the State of Texas.
(Ordinance 852, sec. 7, adopted 2/16/1948; Ordinance 1528, sec. 1, adopted 2/11/1954; 1959 Code, sec. 10-1; Ordinance 5421, sec. 1, adopted 2/22/1968; 1983 Code, sec. 8-3; Ordinance 9143, sec. 1, adopted 11/19/1987)
(a) 
All general and special elections of the city shall be held at voting places that will be designated by election order, which shall be the voting places for the voting precincts. Voting precincts shall be established by ordinance and may be altered from time to time in like manner..
(b) 
The voting precincts shall be divided into six (6) city council voting districts, with each district to contain the following named voting precincts:
Voting District No. 1: Precinct Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 17, 19, 24, 63, and 114.
Voting District No. 2: Precinct Nos. 6, 11, 20, 25, 26, 29, a portion of 34, 40, a portion of 51, 67, 108, 118, 119, 122, and 153.
Voting District No. 3: Precinct Nos. 7, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 27, 30, 49, 50, and 126.
Voting District No. 4: Precinct Nos. 12, 28, 32, a portion of 34, 37, 52, 54, 60, 66, 75, 109, 110, 123, 127, and 141.
Voting District No. 5: Precinct Nos. 62, 78, 104, 111, 112, 124, 125, 128, 129, 138, 139, 140, 154.
Voting District No. 6: Precinct Nos. 9, a portion of 31, 47, 53, 57, 58, 59, 72, 76, 92, 113, 135, and 152.
(c) 
The voting districts and voting precincts, as established by city council, shall be delineated on a map. A copy of the original of such map shall be kept in the office of the city secretary and shall be available for public inspection. At each special and general city election, a true copy of said map shall be furnished by the city secretary to each of the presiding judges of the voting precincts for such special or general city election.
(1959 Code, sec. 10-6; 1983 Code, sec. 8-4; Ordinance 1528, sec. 1, adopted 2/11/1954; Ordinance 2672, sec. 1, adopted 12/31/1958; Ordinance 3746, sec. 1, adopted 2/22/1962; Ordinance 4310, sec. 1, adopted 2/13/1964; Ordinance 4326, sec. 1, adopted 2/27/1964; Ordinance 5421, sec. 1, adopted 2/22/1968; Ordinance 6296, secs. 1–3, adopted 2/10/1972; Ordinance 6321, secs. 1–3, adopted 3/9/1972; Ordinance 6609, sec. 1, adopted 4/26/1973; Ordinance 6831, secs. 1, 2, adopted 2/28/1974; Ordinance 7955, secs. 1, 2, adopted 11/8/1979; Ordinance 7982, secs. 1–3, adopted 1/24/1980; Ordinance 8015, sec. 1, adopted 3/13/1980; Ordinance 8060, secs. 1, 3, adopted 6/26/1980; Ordinance 8073, secs. 1–3, adopted 7/24/1980; Ordinance 8223, secs. 1, 2, adopted 8/27/1981; Ordinance 8278, secs. 1–4, adopted 1/28/1982; Ordinance 8375, secs. 1–3, adopted 10/21/1982; Ordinance 8463, secs. 1–3, adopted 7/5/1983; Ordinance 8526, secs. 2–3, adopted 1/26/1984; Ordinance 8694, secs. 1–6, adopted 12/20/1984; Ordinance 8836, secs. 1–8, adopted 10/24/1985; Ordinance 9091, secs. 1–3, adopted 7/23/1987; Ordinance 9157, secs. 2–4, adopted 12/17/1987; Ordinance 9322, secs. 1–3, adopted 12/14/1989; Ordinance 9335, sec. 1, adopted 2/8/1990; Ordinance 9458, secs. 1, 2, adopted 7/25/1991; Ordinance 9502, secs. 1, 2, 4, 5, adopted 2/27/1992; Ordinance 9758, sec. 4, adopted 11/11/1994; Ordinance 9952, secs. 1–4, adopted 12/12/1996; Ordinance 10046, secs. 1–4, adopted 2/12/1998; Ordinance 2001-O0013, secs. 1–2, adopted 2/8/2001; Ordinance 2001-O0080, secs. 1–4, adopted 10/11/2001; Ordinance 2002-O0009, secs. 1–3, adopted 1/23/2002; Ordinance 2002-O0042, sec. 1, adopted 4/25/2002; Ordinance 2002-O0094, secs. 1, 3, 5, adopted 9/17/2002; Ordinance 2005-O0134, secs. 1, 3, 5, adopted 11/18/2005; Ordinance 2007-O0035, sec. 1, adopted 4/26/2007; Ordinance 2007-O0076, secs. 1–3, 5, adopted 7/26/2007; Ordinance 2009-O0014, secs. 1, 2, 5, adopted 3/5/2009; Ordinance 2010-O0025, secs. 1–3, adopted 4/8/2010; Ordinance 2011-O0085, secs. 1–2, adopted 9/27/2011; Ordinance 2016-O0029, sec. 1, adopted 3/10/2016; Ordinance 2017-O0078, secs. 1–3, adopted 6/22/2017; Ordinance 2018-O0013, secs. 1–3, adopted 2/8/2018; Ordinance 2019-O0013 adopted 2/25/2019; Ordinance 2022-O0013 adopted 1/25/2022; Ordinance 2024-O0008 adopted 1/23/2024; Ordinance 2026-O0006 adopted 1/27/2026)