Stanart served two terms as Harris County Clerk (2011-2018), where he ran elections for the third-largest county in the country.
He won the June 2026 GOP primary runoff for the open HD 126 seat with about 67% of the vote after Rep. Sam Harless retired.
Stanart’s take on Texas values
As former Harris County Clerk and current county GOP Vice Chair for Election Integrity, he campaigns on tightening ballot security and voter-roll oversight, which usually means supporting stricter voter-ID and verification rules that can make voting harder for some people. [campaign website; Ballotpedia]