Editing Lubbock, Texas (section)

===Municipal government===
{{See also|List of mayors of Lubbock, Texas|Mayoral elections in Lubbock}}
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|+ '''City government (as of January 2021):'''<ref name="Lubbock-City Council">{{cite web |url=https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/pages/city-government/city-council |title=Lubbock City Council |access-date=2021-01-20 |work=City of Lubbock, Texas |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120223540/https://ci.lubbock.tx.us/pages/city-government/city-council |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| Mayor||[[Dan Pope]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]])
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| District 1&nbsp;|| Juan A. Chadis
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| District 2&nbsp;|| Shelia Patterson Harris
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| District 3&nbsp;|| Jeff Griffith
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| District 4&nbsp;|| Steve Massengale
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| District 5&nbsp;|| Randy Christian
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| District 6&nbsp;&nbsp;|| Latrelle Joy (Mayor Pro Tem)
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Lubbock has a [[council-manager government]] system, with all governmental powers resting in a legislative body called a [[city council]].<ref name="charter">{{cite web |url=http://codes.franklinlegal.net/lubbock-flp/lpext.dll/Infobase/heading%20100001.htm/heading%20200002.htm |title=Lubbock City Charter |access-date=July 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914060130/http://codes.franklinlegal.net/lubbock-flp/lpext.dll/Infobase/heading%20100001.htm/heading%20200002.htm |archive-date=September 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Voters elect six council members, one for each of Lubbock's six districts, and a mayor.<ref name="charter" /> The council members serve for a term of four years, and the mayor serves for two years.<ref name="charter" /> After the first meeting of the city council after newly elected council members are seated, the council elects a mayor ''pro tempore'', who serves as mayor in absence of the elected mayor.<ref name="charter" /> The council also appoints a city manager to handle the ordinary business of the city.<ref name="charter" /> Currently, no term limits are set for either city council members or the mayor.

After a previous attempt failed in the city council, Lubbock approved by popular referendum a "sanctuary city for the unborn" ordinance, seeking to outlaw abortion within city limits.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title=Lubbock's sanctuary city proposition approved by voters |url=https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/lubbock-votes-to-become-largest-city-in-u-s-to-ban-abortion/ |work=[[KAMC|EverythingLubbock.com]] |date=May 1, 2021 |access-date=May 2, 2021 |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513112402/https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/lubbock-votes-to-become-largest-city-in-u-s-to-ban-abortion/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The ordinance went into effect shortly thereafter and the only abortion clinic stopped providing abortion care. Planned Parenthood sued and a federal judge upheld the ordinance.<ref>{{cite news |last=Najmabadi |first=Shannon |date=May 1, 2021 |title=Lubbock votes to become the state's largest "sanctuary city for the unborn" |url=https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/01/lubbock-abortion-vote-sanctuary-unborn/ |work=[[The Texas Tribune]] |access-date=May 2, 2021 |archive-date=May 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502163615/https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/01/lubbock-abortion-vote-sanctuary-unborn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>