| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate 16 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senate results by district Democratic hold Republican hold Republican gain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Elections in Texas |
---|
Government |
The 2022 Texas State Senate election were held on November 8, 2022. Elections were held to elect senators from all 31 senate districts across the state of Texas. Numerous other federal, state, and local elections, also held on this date. The winners of this election served in the Eighty-eighth Texas Legislature, with seats apportioned among the 2020 United States census. Republicans had held a majority in the Texas Senate since January 14, 1997, as a result of the 1996 elections.
As of April 2022, 6 state senators, including 4 Republicans and 2 Democrats, have decided to retire, 1 of whom is seeking another office.
Source | Ranking | As of |
---|---|---|
Sabato's Crystal Ball [7] | Safe R | May 19, 2022 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Morgan LaMantia (D) | Adam Hinojosa (R) | Undecided |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ragnar Research Partners (R) [upper-alpha 1] | August 23–25, 2022 | 400 (LV) | ± 4.9% | 38% | 43% | 19% |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [lower-alpha 1] | Margin of error | Generic Democrat | Generic Republican | Undecided |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ragnar Research Partners (R) [upper-alpha 1] | August 23–25, 2022 | 400 (LV) | ± 4.9% | 46% | 41% | 12% |
Party | Candidates | Votes | Seats | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | % | Before | Won | After | +/– | |||||||||
Republican | 27 | 2,948,643 | 54.06 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 1 | |||||||
Democratic | 22 | 2,287,700 | 41.94 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 1 | |||||||
Libertarian | 6 | 217,910 | 4.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Total | 5,454,253 | 100.00 | 31 | 31 | 31 | |||||||||
Source: |
District | Winner | Margin |
---|---|---|
District 27 | Democratic | 0.38% |
District | Incumbent | Candidates [lower-alpha 2] | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Member | Party | First elected | Status | ||
1 | Bryan Hughes | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent running |
|
2 | Bob Hall | Republican | 2014 | Incumbent running | |
3 | Robert Nichols | Republican | 2006 | Incumbent running |
|
4 | Brandon Creighton | Republican | 2014 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
5 | Charles Schwertner | Republican | 2012 | Incumbent running |
|
6 | Carol Alvarado | Democratic | 2018 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
7 | Paul Bettencourt | Republican | 2014 | Incumbent running |
|
8 | Angela Paxton | Republican | 2018 | Incumbent running |
|
9 | Kelly Hancock | Republican | 2012 | Incumbent running |
|
10 | Beverly Powell | Democratic | 2018 | Incumbent retiring [5] Republican gain. | |
11 | Larry Taylor | Republican | 2012 | Incumbent retiring [1] |
|
12 | Jane Nelson | Republican | 1992 | Incumbent retiring [2] |
|
13 | Borris Miles | Democratic | 2016 | Incumbent running |
|
14 | Sarah Eckhardt | Democratic | 2020 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
15 | John Whitmire | Democratic | 1982 | Incumbent running |
|
16 | Nathan Johnson | Democratic | 2018 | Incumbent running |
|
17 | Joan Huffman | Republican | 2008 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
18 | Lois Kolkhorst | Republican | 2014 | Incumbent running |
|
19 | Roland Gutierrez | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent running |
|
20 | Juan Hinojosa | Democratic | 2002 | Incumbent running |
|
21 | Judith Zaffirini | Democratic | 1986 | Incumbent running |
|
22 | Brian Birdwell | Republican | 2010 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
23 | Royce West | Democratic | 1992 | Incumbent running |
|
24 | Dawn Buckingham | Republican | 2016 | Incumbent retiring to run for Texas Land Commissioner [3] |
|
25 | Donna Campbell | Republican | 2012 | Incumbent running |
|
26 | Jose Menendez | Democratic | 2015 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
27 | Eddie Lucio Jr. | Democratic | 1990 | Incumbent retiring [23] |
|
28 | Charles Perry | Republican | 2014 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
29 | Cesar Blanco | Democratic | 2020 | Incumbent running |
|
30 | Drew Springer | Republican | 2020 (special) | Incumbent running |
|
31 | Kel Seliger | Republican | 2004 | Incumbent retiring [4] |
|
Nicholas Van Campen Taylor, known as Van Taylor, is an American businessman and Republican politician from Plano, Texas. He is the U.S. representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district, and was first elected in 2018.
The 2022 United States Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with the midterm elections at the federal, state, and local level, including the 2022 U.S. House of Representatives elections. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 34 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the U.S. Congress from January 3, 2023, to January 3, 2029, starting with the 118th United States Congress. One special election was also held to complete an unexpired term ending January 3, 2027. While pundits considered the Republican Party a slight favorite to gain control of the Senate, the Democratic Party outperformed expectations and expanded the majority it had held since 2021.
César Jose Blanco is an American Politician who is currently serving as a member of the Texas Senate.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8, 2022 in 36 states and three territories. As most governors serve four-year terms, the last regular gubernatorial elections for all but two of the seats took place in 2018 U.S. gubernatorial elections. The gubernatorial elections took place concurrently with several other federal, state, and local elections, as part of the 2022 midterm elections.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 2022, as part of the 2022 United States elections during incumbent president Joe Biden's term. The elections were held to elect representatives from all 435 U.S. congressional districts across each of the 50 states, as well as five non-voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited insular areas. The winners of this election will serve in the 118th United States Congress. Numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2022 U.S. Senate elections, were also held on the same date. At the time of the election, the Democratic Party had held a majority in the House since January 3, 2019, as a result of the 2018 elections, when they won 235 seats; their majority was reduced to 222 seats in 2020.
The 2024 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections. 33 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested in regular elections, the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the U.S. Congress from January 3, 2025, to January 3, 2031, and one special election will be held to complete an unexpired term ending January 3, 2027. Senators are divided into three classes whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years. Class 1 senators, who were last elected in 2018, will be up for election again in 2024. Numerous other federal, state and local elections, including the U.S. presidential election and elections to the House, will also be held on this date.
The 2022 Texas gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott won re-election to a third term against Democratic nominee and former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke. All statewide elected offices are currently held by Republicans. In his previous gubernatorial race in 2018, Abbott won with 55.8% of the vote.
On November 3, 2020 El Paso County elected the mayor of El Paso, Texas, four members of city council, two county commissioners, county sheriff, state senator, and five state representatives. El Pasoans voted for members of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 16th and 23rd districts of Texas, district attorney, United States senator, and president of the United States.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the 38 U.S. representatives from Texas, one from each of the state's projected 38 congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, other elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. Primary elections took place on March 1, with primary runoffs scheduled for May 24 for districts where no candidate received over 50% of the vote.
Elections for the Pennsylvania State Senate were held on November 8, 2022, with 25 of 50 districts being contested. The term of office for those elected in 2022 will begin when the Senate convenes in January 2023. Pennsylvania State Senators are elected for four-year terms, with half of the seats up for election every two years. The election coincided with the 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, United States House of Representatives elections, and the entirety of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
The 2023 United States elections are scheduled to be held, in large part, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. The off-year election includes gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states, as well as numerous citizen initiatives, mayoral races, and a variety of other local offices on the ballot. At least one special election to the United States Congress was scheduled as either deaths or vacancies arose.
The 2022 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 8, 2022, to elect members of the Senate of the 93rd Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on August 9, 2022. The election coincided with the election of the other house of the Legislature, the Minnesota House of Representatives, and other elections. The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party retook control of the Senate from the Minnesota Republican Party, in addition to retaining the Governorship, Secretary of State, and Attorney General, giving the DFL undivided control of government for the first time since 2014.
The 2022 Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the lieutenant governor of the state of Texas. The election coincided with various other federal and state elections, including for governor of Texas. Primary elections were held on March 1, with runoffs being held on May 24 for instances in which no candidate received a majority of the initial vote. Texas is one of 21 states that elects its lieutenant governor separately from its governor.
The 2022 Texas House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 2022, to elect representatives from all 150 House of Representatives districts across the U.S. state of Texas. It was held alongside numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2022 Texas State Senate election. The winners of this election served in the Eighty-eighth Texas Legislature.
The 2022 United States state legislative elections were held on November 8, 2022 for 88 state legislative chambers in 46 states. Across the fifty states, approximately 56 percent of all upper house seats and 92 percent of all lower house seats were up for election. These midterm elections coincided with other state and local elections, including gubernatorial elections in multiple states.
The 2022 Indiana Senate election took place on Tuesday November 8, 2022 with elections in the U.S. state of Indiana, coinciding with other elections in the state, U.S. House, and Indiana House, as well as various other state and local elections. Voters will elect members to 25 of the 50 seats in the Indiana Senate to serve four-year terms in single-member constituencies. The primary election took place on Tuesday May 3, 2022. The Republican Party has held a majority since 2011.
The 2022 Texas elections were held on November 8, 2022. Primary elections were held on March 1, with runoffs held on May 24 for primary candidates who did not receive a majority of the vote.
The 2022 Wisconsin State Senate elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. Seventeen of the 33 seats in the Wisconsin State Senate were up for election—the odd-numbered districts. This was the first election to take place after redistricting following the 2020 United States census, which moved a severe Republican gerrymander to a slightly more severe Republican gerrymander. Before the election, 21 Senate seats were held by Republicans and 12 seats were held by Democrats. 11 Republican seats and 6 Democratic seats were up in this election. The primary election took place on August 9, 2022.
Kevin Sparks, is an American Republican businessman who is the state Senator-Elect for the Texas State Senate for the 31st District, having been duly elected in 2022. The Texas Panhandle and Permian Basin seat, where incumbent Republican Kel Seliger announced his retirement, was effectively won by Sparks after the Republican primary election as he faced no Democratic opponent in the general election.
{{cite news}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link)