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Ray Lopez
2019 - Present
2027
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Ray Lopez (Democratic Party) is a member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 125. He assumed office on March 21, 2019. His current term ends on January 12, 2027.
Lopez (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Texas House of Representatives to represent District 125. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Ray Lopez graduated from Harlandale High School. Lopez served in the U.S. Army Reserve. Lopez's career experience includes working as an executive with AT&T. Lopez was elected to serve with the North Side Independent School District Board of Trustees in 1990. He served as a board president. Lopez was elected to serve with the San Antonio City Council as a representative of Council District 6 in 2004. He served four terms with the city council.[1][2]
Committee assignments
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2023-2024
Lopez was assigned to the following committees:
2021-2022
Lopez was assigned to the following committees:
2019-2020
Lopez was assigned to the following committees:
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Incumbent Ray Lopez won election in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ray Lopez (D) | 100.0 | 48,251 |
| Total votes: 48,251 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Incumbent Ray Lopez defeated Eric Michael Garza in the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez | 67.6 | 5,849 |
 | Eric Michael Garza | 32.4 | 2,805 | |
| Total votes: 8,654 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Lopez received the following endorsements.
2022
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Incumbent Ray Lopez defeated Carlos Antonio Raymond in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez (D) | 62.4 | 34,762 |
 | Carlos Antonio Raymond (R) | 37.6 | 20,933 | |
| Total votes: 55,695 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Incumbent Ray Lopez defeated Eric Michael Garza in the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez | 58.3 | 5,960 |
| Eric Michael Garza | 41.7 | 4,271 | |
| Total votes: 10,231 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Carlos Antonio Raymond advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carlos Antonio Raymond | 100.0 | 6,595 |
| Total votes: 6,595 | |||
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Campaign finance
2020
See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Incumbent Ray Lopez defeated Tony Valdivia in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez (D) | 79.8 | 45,500 |
 | Tony Valdivia (L) | 20.2 | 11,515 | |
| Total votes: 57,015 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Incumbent Ray Lopez advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez | 100.0 | 14,682 |
| Total votes: 14,682 | |||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Tony Valdivia advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on March 21, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | | Tony Valdivia (L) |
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Campaign finance
2019
See also: Texas state legislative special elections, 2019
General runoff election
Special general runoff election for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Ray Lopez defeated Fred Rangel in the special general runoff election for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on March 12, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez (D) | 58.4 | 5,312 |
 | Fred Rangel (R) | 41.6 | 3,780 | |
| Total votes: 9,092 | |||
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General election
Special general election for Texas House of Representatives District 125
Fred Rangel and Ray Lopez advanced to a runoff. They defeated Coda Rayo-Garza, Arthur Reyna, and Steve Huerta in the special general election for Texas House of Representatives District 125 on February 12, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Fred Rangel (R) | 37.9 | 2,323 |
| ✔ | | Ray Lopez (D) | 19.5 | 1,194 |
 | Coda Rayo-Garza (D) | 19.0 | 1,166 | |
 | Arthur Reyna (D) | 17.1 | 1,049 | |
| Steve Huerta (D) | 6.4 | 395 | ||
| Total votes: 6,127 | |||
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2015
The city of San Antonio, Texas, held elections for mayor and city council on May 9, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was February 27, 2015. All 10 city council seats were up for election. In District 6, incumbent Ray Lopez faced Steve Shamblen.[3][4]
| San Antonio City Council, District 6, 2015 | |||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 Ray Lopez Incumbent |
73.7% | 4,356 | |
| Steve Shamblen | 26.3% | 1,553 | |
| Total Votes | 5,909 | ||
| Source: Bexar County Elections, "Official general election results," accessed May 28, 2015 | |||
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Ray Lopez did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Ray Lopez did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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2024
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2023
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In 2023, the Texas State Legislature was in session from January 10 to May 29.
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2022
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In 2022, the Texas State Legislature was not in session. |
2021
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In 2021, the Texas State Legislature was in session from January 12 to May 31.
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2020
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In 2020, the Texas State Legislature was not in session. |
2019
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In 2019, the Texas State Legislature was in its 86th legislative session from January 8 through May 27.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Texas House of Representatives District 125 |
Officeholder Texas House of Representatives District 125 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedbio - ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email communication with Office of State Representative Ray Lopez Manager of Communications and Policy Analyst James Rodriguez," September 18, 2020
- ↑ Harris County, "Important 2015 Election Dates," accessed January 12, 2015
- ↑ City of San Antonio, "2015 Candidate Listing," accessed March 18, 2015
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by - |
Texas House of Representatives District 125 2019-Present |
Succeeded by - |
| Preceded by - |
San Antonio City Council District 6 2009-2017 |
Succeeded by - |
