LISD's Trustee Elections Are Now Fully Restructured — Your Ballot Has Five Fewer Races On It

The next time you vote in a Lewisville ISD board election, something will be missing: six of the seven trustee races. That's not a mistake. LISD has completed a transition from electing all board members at large to a system in which five members are elected from single-member districts and two are elected at large. If your address falls inside district lines in Flower Mound, you now vote for exactly one of those five neighborhood seats — plus the two at-large places. Not all seven.

The transition ran in phases tied to each seat's normal election cycle. Single-Member Districts 1, 2, and 3 came on line in May 2024 and May 2025, respectively, and Districts 4 and 5 followed in May 2026. That May 2026 election completed the rollout.

Where this started. The change traces back to a Voting Rights Act lawsuit settled in August 2023. Plaintiff Paige Dixon brought the suit after running for an LISD board seat in 2021 and losing; Dixon's attorneys argued the at-large system failed to fairly represent a student body that was 30.7% Hispanic, 15.7% Asian, and 12% African American in the 2021–22 school year. The board voted unanimously to approve the transition at its August 28 meeting.

What actually changed on your ballot. Under the old system, all seven board members were chosen by every voter within LISD's geographic boundaries — the definition of at-large representation. Now, five members are elected from specific geographic districts, while two continue to be selected at large. Those two at-large places can be filled by a candidate living anywhere within LISD, and all voters may vote for them. Every LISD voter in Flower Mound will see three races on a school board ballot: one single-member district seat and two at-large seats.

How the map was drawn. Boundaries were shaped by traditional neighborhoods, school feeder patterns, demographic makeup from census data, and voting precincts. The settlement also required that at least one of the five single-member districts be made up of a majority of voting-age residents from minority populations. Each of the five districts is substantially equal in total population under 2020 Census counts — as close as practicable to the mathematical ideal of 63,708 persons per district.

What you should do now. Your address determines which single-member district race appears on your ballot. Move across town past a boundary line and you'll see a different trustee race entirely. LISD has published district maps at lisd.net so you can confirm your assigned seat before candidate filing opens for the next election cycle. Worth a quick look before that window arrives.