Chris Fernandez
Chris Fernandez (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 22nd Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 3, 2026.
Elections
2026
See also: Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
General election for U.S. House Texas District 22
Marquette Greene-Scott (D), Trever Nehls (R), and Demile James (American Independent Party) are running in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 22 on November 3, 2026.
Candidate | ||
 | Marquette Greene-Scott (D)  | |
 | Trever Nehls (R) | |
| Demile James (American Independent Party) | ||
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Democratic primary
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Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22
Marquette Greene-Scott (D) defeated Chris Fernandez (D), Robert Thomas (D), Pearl Vuorinen (D), and Sterling Gadison (D) in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2026.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marquette Greene-Scott | 54.6 | 26,193 |
 | Chris Fernandez | 18.5 | 8,893 | |
 | Robert Thomas | 15.1 | 7,246 | |
 | Pearl Vuorinen | 6.4 | 3,085 | |
| Sterling Gadison | 5.3 | 2,564 | ||
| Total votes: 47,981 | |||
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Republican primary
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22
Trever Nehls (R) defeated Rebecca Clark (R) in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2026.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Trever Nehls | 76.1 | 45,680 |
 | Rebecca Clark | 23.9 | 14,363 | |
| Total votes: 60,043 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Troy Nehls (R)
- Jacey Jetton (R)
Endorsements
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2020
See also: Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020
Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)
Texas' 22nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 22
Troy Nehls defeated Sri Preston Kulkarni and Joseph LeBlanc in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 22 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Troy Nehls (R) | 51.5 | 210,259 |
 | Sri Preston Kulkarni (D) | 44.6 | 181,998 | |
 | Joseph LeBlanc (L) | 3.9 | 15,791 | |
| Total votes: 408,048 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 22
Troy Nehls defeated Kathaleen Wall in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 22 on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Troy Nehls | 69.9 | 36,132 |
 | Kathaleen Wall | 30.1 | 15,547 | |
| Total votes: 51,679 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22
Sri Preston Kulkarni defeated Derrick Reed, Nyanza Moore, and Carmine Petricco III in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sri Preston Kulkarni | 53.1 | 34,664 |
 | Derrick Reed | 24.7 | 16,126 | |
 | Nyanza Moore | 14.5 | 9,449 | |
| Carmine Petricco III | 7.8 | 5,074 | ||
| Total votes: 65,313 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Chris Fernandez (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Troy Nehls | 40.5 | 29,583 |
| ✔ | | Kathaleen Wall | 19.4 | 14,201 |
 | Pierce Bush | 15.4 | 11,281 | |
 | Greg Hill | 14.1 | 10,315 | |
 | Dan Mathews | 3.0 | 2,165 | |
| Bangar Reddy | 1.6 | 1,144 | ||
 | Joe Walz | 1.4 | 1,039 | |
| Shandon Phan | 1.1 | 773 | ||
 | Diana Miller | 1.1 | 771 | |
 | Jon Camarillo | 1.0 | 718 | |
 | Douglas Haggard | 0.5 | 398 | |
 | Howard Lynn Steele Jr. | 0.4 | 283 | |
 | Matt Hinton | 0.4 | 274 | |
| Brandon Penko | 0.1 | 96 | ||
 | Aaron Hermes | 0.1 | 92 | |
| Total votes: 73,133 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Schell Hammel (R)
- Keli Chevalier (R)
- Clint Morgan (R)
- Felicia Harris Hoss (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 22
Joseph LeBlanc advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 22 on March 21, 2020.
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| ✔ | | Joseph LeBlanc (L) |
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Libertarian primary convention
Joseph LeBlanc advanced from the Libertarian primary convention.
Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Chris Fernandez did not complete Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey.
Media interview
Fernandez highlighted the following themes in an interview with Community Impact on January 30, 2026. The questions from Community Impact are bolded and Fernandez's responses follow below.[1]
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If elected, what will be your top priorities? I plan to return the power of the purse back to Congress, thus allowing all agencies to function as needed for the success of our communities by providing funding to our people so that they may have the resources to aid each community in every state, city and town in the union. [2] |
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2020
Chris Fernandez did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
Campaign finance information for this candidate is not yet available from the Federal Election Commission. That information will be published here once it is available.
See also
2026 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Community Impact, “Q&A: Meet the 5 Democratic primary candidates running for US House District 22,” January 30, 2026
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
