Janis Holt
Janis Holt (Republican Party) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 18. She assumed office on January 14, 2025. Her current term ends on January 12, 2027.
Holt (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 18. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Janis Holt was born in Silsbee, Texas. Her career experience includes working as an air purification business owner.[1]
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 18
Janis Holt defeated Seth Steele in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 18 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Janis Holt (R) | 86.6 | 69,326 |
| Seth Steele (L) | 13.4 | 10,749 | ||
| Total votes: 80,075 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Shanna Steele (L)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 18
Janis Holt defeated incumbent Ernest Bailes and Stephen Missick in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 18 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Janis Holt | 53.2 | 15,014 |
 | Ernest Bailes | 38.8 | 10,952 | |
 | Stephen Missick | 8.0 | 2,258 | |
| Total votes: 28,224 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Robert Duke (R)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 18
Shanna Steele advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 18 on March 23, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ |  | Shanna Steele (L) |
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Holt received the following endorsements.
- Former President Donald Trump (R)
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
The general election was canceled. Incumbent Ernest Bailes won election in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 18.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 18
Incumbent Ernest Bailes defeated Janis Holt, Ronnie Tullos, and Stephen Missick in the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 18 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ernest Bailes | 56.2 | 12,742 |
| Janis Holt | 26.4 | 5,995 | |
 | Ronnie Tullos | 11.6 | 2,631 | |
| Stephen Missick | 5.8 | 1,313 | |
| Total votes: 22,681 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
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2022
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Campaign finance summary
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2016 Republican National Convention
Holt was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Holt was one of 104 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention.[2] Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates. For more on what happened to his delegates, see this page.
Delegate rules
At-large delegates from Texas to the national convention were selected by a state nominations committee and approved by the Texas State GOP Convention in May 2016. District-level delegates were elected by congressional districts at the state convention and then approved by the convention as a whole. At the national convention, all delegates were bound on the first ballot unless their candidate withdrew from the race or released his or her delegates. A delegate remained bound on the second ballot if his or her candidate received at least 20 percent of the total vote on the first ballot. On the third and subsequent ballots, all delegates were to become unbound.
Texas primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Texas, 2016
| Texas Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 1.2% | 35,420 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 4.2% | 117,969 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 3,448 | 0 | |
 Ted Cruz |
43.8% | 1,241,118 | 104 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 3,247 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 1,706 | 0 | |
| Elizabeth Gray | 0.2% | 5,449 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 6,226 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 4.2% | 120,473 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 8,000 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 17.7% | 503,055 | 3 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 2,006 | 0 | |
| Donald Trump | 26.8% | 758,762 | 48 | |
| Other | 1% | 29,609 | 0 | |
| Totals | 2,836,488 | 155 | ||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Texas had 155 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 108 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 36 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the primary vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates. If only one candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, he or she won all of the district's delegates. If two candidates met this threshold, the first place finisher received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate. If no candidate won 20 percent of the vote, the top three finishers in a district each received one of the district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates.[3][4]
Of the remaining 47 delegates, 44 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If only one candidate broke the 20 percent threshold, the second place finisher still received a portion of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[3][4]
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Texas House of Representatives District 18 |
Officeholder Texas House of Representatives District 18 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Janis Holt, "Bio/Policies," accessed February 25, 2025
- ↑ Texas GOP, "National Convention," May 19, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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| Preceded by Ernest Bailes (R) |
Texas House of Representatives District 18 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
