Roy Eriksen

Roy Eriksen (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 7th Congressional District. He lost in the Libertarian Party convention on March 23, 2024.

Biography

Roy Eriksen's career experience includes owning a business.^[1]

Elections

2024

Texas' 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)

Texas' 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 7

Incumbent Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeated Caroline Kane in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 7 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (D)	61.3	149,820
	Caroline Kane (R)	38.7	94,651

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 244,471
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Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7

Caroline Kane defeated Kenneth Omoruyi in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7 on May 28, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Caroline Kane	50.4	2,539
	Kenneth Omoruyi	49.6	2,495

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 5,034
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Incumbent Lizzie Pannill Fletcher defeated Pervez Agwan in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Lizzie Pannill Fletcher	74.2	27,902
	Pervez Agwan	25.8	9,679

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 37,581
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Noor Mobeen (D)
Lakeisha Simon (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Kenneth Omoruyi and Caroline Kane advanced to a runoff. They defeated Carolyn B. Bryant and Tina Blum Cohen in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7 on March 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Kenneth Omoruyi	41.9	9,834
✔	Caroline Kane	24.6	5,764
	Carolyn B. Bryant	18.7	4,382
	Tina Blum Cohen	14.9	3,489

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 23,469
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

John Weinberg (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 7

No candidate advanced from the convention.

		Candidate
		Roy Eriksen (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source
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Endorsements

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2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 8

Morgan Luttrell defeated Laura Jones and Roy Eriksen in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 8 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Morgan Luttrell (R)	68.1	153,127
	Laura Jones (D)	30.5	68,715
	Roy Eriksen (L)	1.4	3,126

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 224,968
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8

Laura Jones advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Laura Jones	100.0	14,496

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,496
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 1, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Morgan Luttrell	52.1	34,271
		Christian Collins	22.3	14,659
		Jonathan Hullihan	12.6	8,296
		Dan McKaughan	2.4	1,585
		Jessica Wellington	2.4	1,550
		Candice C. Burrows	2.3	1,519
	Submit photo	Chuck Montgomery	1.8	1,169
		Mike Philips	1.3	871
		Jonathan Mitchell	1.2	791
		Betsy Bates	1.1	712
	Submit photo	Taylor Whichard	0.4	295

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 65,718
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8

Roy Eriksen advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8 on March 19, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Roy Eriksen (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source
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2020

Texas' 10th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)

Texas' 10th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 10

Incumbent Michael McCaul defeated Mike Siegel and Roy Eriksen in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 10 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Michael McCaul (R)	52.5	217,216
	Mike Siegel (D)	45.3	187,686
	Roy Eriksen (L)	2.2	8,992

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 413,894
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Lloyd Coker (Conservative Party)
Olis Bahari (Independent)

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 10

Mike Siegel defeated Pritesh Gandhi in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 10 on July 14, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Mike Siegel	54.2	26,799
	Pritesh Gandhi	45.8	22,629

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 49,428 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 10

Mike Siegel and Pritesh Gandhi advanced to a runoff. They defeated Shannon Hutcheson in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 10 on March 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Mike Siegel	44.0	35,651
✔	Pritesh Gandhi	33.1	26,818
	Shannon Hutcheson	22.9	18,578

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 81,047
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 10

Incumbent Michael McCaul advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 10 on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Michael McCaul	100.0	60,323

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 60,323
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 10

Roy Eriksen advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 10 on March 21, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Roy Eriksen (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.
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2018

See also: Texas House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 130

Incumbent Tom Oliverson defeated Fred Infortunio and Roy Eriksen in the general election for Texas House of Representatives District 130 on November 6, 2018.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Tom Oliverson (R)	68.4	52,106
	Fred Infortunio (D)	29.7	22,598
	Roy Eriksen (L)	1.9	1,428

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 76,132
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 130

Fred Infortunio advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 130 on March 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Fred Infortunio	100.0	3,985

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,985
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 130

Incumbent Tom Oliverson advanced from the Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 130 on March 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tom Oliverson	100.0	11,233

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 11,233
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Campaign themes

2024

Campaign finance summary

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Roy Eriksen campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House Texas District 7	Lost convention	$0	N/A**
2022	U.S. House Texas District 8	Lost general	$0	N/A**
2018	Texas House of Representatives District 130	Lost general	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

↑ Community Impact Newspaper, "Q&A: Meet the candidates running for U.S. House District 10," October 12, 2020

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[bio-1] Community Impact Newspaper, "Q&A: Meet the candidates running for U.S. House District 10," October 12, 2020

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Roy Eriksen

Biography

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 7

Republican primary runoff election

Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 7

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 7

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 7

Endorsements

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 8

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 8

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 8

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 8

2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 10

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 10

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 10

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 10

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 10

2018

General election

General election for Texas House of Representatives District 130

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Texas House of Representatives District 130

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Texas House of Representatives District 130

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

2022

2020

Campaign finance summary

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