Texas State Senate elections, 2022
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| Primary | March 1, 2022 |
| Primary runoff | May 24, 2022 |
| General | November 8, 2022 |
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Elections for the Texas State Senate took place in 2022. The general election was on November 8, 2022. A primary was scheduled for March 1, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for May 24, 2022. The filing deadline was December 13, 2021.
The chamber's Republican majority increased from 18-13 to 19-12.
The Texas State Senate was one of 88 state legislative chambers with elections in 2022. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
For more information about Republican primaries, click here.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 8, 2022 | After November 9, 2022 | |
| Democratic Party | 13 | 12 | |
| Republican Party | 18 | 19 | |
| Total | 31 | 31 | |
Candidates
General
Texas State Senate General Election 2022 |
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The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected:  Bryan Hughes (i) |
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| District 2 |
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| District 3 |
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Desarae Lindsey (Libertarian Party) |
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| District 4 |
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| District 5 |
Tommy Estes (Libertarian Party) Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 6 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Carol Alvarado (i) |
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| District 7 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Paul Bettencourt (i) |
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| District 8 |
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Ed Kless (Libertarian Party) |
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| District 9 |
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| District 10 |
Did not make the ballot: |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Phil King |
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| District 11 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Mayes Middleton |
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| District 12 |
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| District 13 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Borris Miles (i) |
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| District 14 |
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Steven Haskett (Libertarian Party) Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 15 |
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| District 21 |
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Arthur DiBianca (Libertarian Party) |
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| District 22 |
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Jeremy Schroppel (Libertarian Party) |
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| District 23 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Royce West (i) |
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| District 24 |
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| District 25 |
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| District 26 |
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| District 27 |
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| District 28 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Charles Perry (i) |
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| District 29 |
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| District 30 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Drew Springer (i) |
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| District 31 |
The general election was canceled and this candidate was elected: Kevin Sparks |
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection
Primary runoff
Texas State Senate Primary Runoff 2022 |
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Primary
Texas State Senate Primary 2022 |
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| District 1 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 5 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 6 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 7 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 10 |
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| District 11 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 13 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 14 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. |
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| District 21 |
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| District 22 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 23 |
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The Republican primary was canceled. Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 24 |
Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 25 |
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| District 27 |
Alex Dominguez |
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| District 28 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 30 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. Did not make the ballot: |
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The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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Convention candidates
The following candidates filed to run in Libertarian Party conventions:[1]
County conventions (March 12, 2022)
District conventions (March 19, 2022)
- Desarae Lindsey, District 3
- Tommy Estes, District 5
- Carl Jameson, District 8
- Ed Kless, District 8
- Arthur DiBianca, District 21
- Jeremy Schroppel, District 22
- Holly Teel, District 24
Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses
Ballotpedia asks all federal, state, and local candidates to complete a survey and share what motivates them on political and personal levels. Click a link below to read survey responses from candidates in that district:
- District 1
- District 2
- District 3
- District 4
- District 5
- District 6
- District 7
- District 8
- District 9
- District 10
- District 11
- District 12
- District 13
- District 14
- District 15
- District 16
- District 17
- District 18
- District 19
- District 20
- District 21
- District 22
- District 23
- District 24
- District 25
- District 26
- District 27
- District 28
- District 29
- District 30
- District 31
Campaign finance
The campaign finance data analyzed and displayed below is gathered and made available by Transparency USA.
Campaign finance by district
The section below contains data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. Districts and elections are grouped in sections of 10. To view data for a district, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections.
Incumbents defeated in primary elections
No incumbents lost in primaries. Before 2022, the most recent time an incumbent senator lost in a primary election or runoff was in 2014 when Sens. John Carona (R) and Bob Deuell (R) lost to challengers. No incumbent Democratic senator has lost in a primary or runoff since 2006.
Retiring incumbents
Five incumbents were not on the ballot in 2022.[2] Those incumbents were:
| Name | Party | Office | Reason |
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| Larry Taylor |  Republican |
Senate District 11 | Retired |
| Jane Nelson | Republican |
Senate District 12 | Retired |
| Dawn Buckingham | Republican |
Senate District 24 | Other office |
| Eddie Lucio |  Democratic |
Senate District 27 | Retired |
| Kel Seliger | Republican |
Senate District 31 | Retired |
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Texas. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Texas in 2022. Information below was calculated on Feb. 11, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
This year, 461 candidates filed to run in Texas' 181 state legislative districts, including 269 Republicans, 192 Democrats, and one independent. This equals 2.6 candidates per district, up from 2.3 candidates per district in 2020 and 2.5 in 2018.
Below are other takeaways from the 2022 filing deadline:
- Thirty-one of the 181 districts holding elections (17.1%) were open, meaning no incumbent filed to run. This was the largest percentage of open seats in a Texas legislative election cycle since at least 2014. The next highest was 10.2% in 2016.
- Seventy-five percent (265) of the 362 possible Democratic or Republican primaries were uncontested, either because just one candidate filed or because no candidates filed, the second-lowest percentage since at least 2014. The only year with fewer uncontested primaries was 2018 when 236 out of 330 possible primaries (71.5%) went uncontested. In 2020, there were 261 uncontested primaries out of 332 overall, or 78.6%.
- Candidates from one of the two major parties did not file to run in 44% (79) of the 181 seats up for election, likely guaranteeing them to the opposing party. Republicans were likely to win at least 49 seats—eight in the Senate and 41 in the House—because no Democrats filed to run for them. Democrats were likely to win at least 30 seats—three in the Senate and 27 in the House—since no Republicans filed. In 2020, there were 32 seats guaranteed to Democrats and 27 guaranteed to Republicans because no candidate from the other party filed. In 2018, 38 seats were guaranteed to Democrats and 19 to Republicans.
Open seats
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Texas State Senate from 2010 to 2022.[3]
| Open Seats in Texas State Senate elections: 2010 - 2022 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2022 | 31 | 5 (16 percent) | 26 (84 percent) |
| 2020 | 16 | 1 (6 percent) | 15 (94 percent) |
| 2018 | 15 | 4 (27 percent) | 11 (73 percent) |
| 2016 | 16 | 3 (19 percent) | 13 (81 percent) |
| 2014 | 15 | 3 (20 percent) | 12 (80 percent) |
| 2012 | 31 | 4 (13 percent) | 27 (87 percent) |
| 2010 | 16 | 1 (6 percent) | 15 (94 percent) |
News and conflicts in this primary
This race was featured in The Heart of the Primaries, a newsletter capturing stories related to conflicts within each major party. Click here and here to read more about conflict in this and other 2022 state legislative primaries. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter.
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 9 (February 10, 2022)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 3 (December 16, 2021)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 2 (December 2, 2021)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 10 (February 17, 2022)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 9 (February 10, 2022)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 8 (February 3, 2022)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 4 (January 6, 2022)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 3 (December 16, 2021)
- Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 2 (December 2, 2021)
Process to become a candidate
See statutes: Title 9 of the Texas Election Code
A candidate in Texas may run with an officially recognized political party, as an independent, or as a write-in.
For major party candidates
In order to run with a major political party, a candidate must file an application with the county or state party chair and pay a filing fee. A candidate also has the option of filing a petition in lieu of the filing fee. Application and petition forms are available through local party officials or the Texas Secretary of State. The regular filing period for the primary election begins on the 30th day before the date of the regular filing deadline, which is 6 p.m. on the second Monday in December of an odd-numbered year.[4]
A chart detailing the signature and filing requirements for each particular office can be accessed here.[5]
For minor party candidates
State-qualified minor parties nominate candidates by convention. To be considered for nomination by a convention, a minor party candidate must file an application for nomination no later than 6 p.m. on the second Monday in December of an odd-numbered year, preceding the minor party’s convention. A candidate seeking nomination for a state or district office must file with the state party chair. Candidates for county or precinct offices must file applications with county party chairs. A candidate nominated via convention must either pay a filing fee (equal to the filing fee paid by major party candidates in primary elections) or submit a petition a petition in lieu of paying the filing fee.[6][7]
For independent candidates
A candidate may have his or her name placed on the general election ballot as an independent candidate if he or she is not affiliated with a political party.[8][9][10][11][12]
To run as an independent, a candidate must file a declaration of intent with the county judge (county or precinct offices) or the Texas Secretary of State (district and state offices) during the same filing period as major and minor party candidates.[9][13]
This paperwork must include signatures of voters who have not participated in the primary election or the runoff primary election of a party that has nominated, at either election, a candidate for the office the petitioning candidate seeks.[9][14]
A chart detailing the signature and filing requirements for each particular office can be accessed here.[9]
For write-in candidates
In order to become a write-in candidate in the general election, the candidate must file a declaration of candidacy with the Texas Secretary of State or the county judge, as appropriate, no later than 5 p.m. of the 78th day before general election day.[15][16]
The declaration must be accompanied by either a filing fee or a nominating petition signed by a certain number of qualified voters. A chart detailing the signature and filing requirements for each particular office can be accessed here.[15][17]
Qualifications
To be eligible to serve in the Texas State Senate, a candidate must be:[18]
- A U.S. citizen
- 26 years old before the general election
- A five-year resident of Texas before the general election
- A district resident for 1 year prior to the general election.
Salaries and per diem
- See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries
| State legislative salaries, 2024[19] | |
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| Salary | Per diem |
| $7,200/year | $221/day |
When sworn in
Texas legislators assume office at the beginning of the legislative session, which starts at noon on the second Tuesday in January in the year after the election.[20][21]
Texas political history
Trifectas
A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government.
Texas Party Control: 1992-2025
Three years of Democratic trifectas • Twenty-three years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
Presidential politics in Texas
2020 Presidential election results
Presidential election in Texas, 2020
Candidate/Running mate |
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Popular votes |
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| Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R) |
52.1
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5,890,347 | 38 |
 
| Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D) |
46.5
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5,259,126 | 0 | |
 
| Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L) |
1.1
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126,243 | 0 | |
 
| Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G) |
0.3
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33,396 | 0 | |
 
| Brian T. Carroll/Amar Patel (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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2,785 | 0 | |
 
| President Boddie/Eric Stoneham (Unaffiliated) |
0.0
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2,012 | 0 | |
| Gloria La Riva/Leonard Peltier (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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350 | 0 | |
 
| Tom Hoefling/Andy Prior (Unaffiliated) |
0.0
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337 | 0 | |
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| Todd Cella/Tim Cella (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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205 | 0 | |
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| Kasey Wells/Rachel Wells (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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114 | 0 | |
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| Robert Morrow/Anne Beckett (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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56 | 0 | |
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| Jesse Cuellar/Jimmy Monreal (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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49 | 0 | |
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| Abram Loeb/Jennifer Jairala (Unaffiliated) (Write-in) |
0.0
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36 | 0 | |
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Total votes: 11,315,056 |
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Texas
Redistricting following the 2020 census
Texas renewed its state legislative district boundaries in June 2023 for use in 2024 and until the 2030 census. These districts were the same as those enacted by the state in October 2021. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed HB 1000 — establishing state House district boundaries — on June 12, 2023, and he allowed SB 375 — establishing state Senate district boundaries — to become law without his signature on June 18, 2023.[22][23]
The Texas Tribune's James Barragan wrote in January 2023 that Senate Legislative Redistricting Committee Chairwoman Joan Huffman (R) said the state was re-doing the redistricting process "to ensure that Legislature had met its constitutional requirement to apportion districts in the first regular session after the publishing of the results of the federal census, which is done every 10 years. Because of the pandemic, census numbers were not released until after the end of the last regularly scheduled legislative session on May 31, 2021. Redistricted maps were passed in a subsequent special session that year."[24] Texas had originally enacted new state legislative districts on October 25, 2021.
Below is the state Senate map in effect before and after the 2020 redistricting cycle.
Texas State Senate Districts
until January 9, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Texas State Senate Districts
starting January 10, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Candidates for Convention for Libertarian Party," accessed February 2, 2022
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 172.023," accessed April 23, 2025
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Republican or Democratic Party Nominees," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 181.033," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Legislature, "SB 2093," accessed June 8, 2021
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 1.005(9)," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Texas Elections Division, "Independent Candidates," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 142.008," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 162.003," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 162.007," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 142.002(b)(2)," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 142.009," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Texas Secretary of State, "Procedures for Write-In Candidates in 2024," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 146.025," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Election Code, "Section 146.023-146.0232," accessed April 24, 2025
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "Qualifications for office," accessed December 18, 2013
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Texas Government Code, "Title 3., Subtitle A., Sec. 301.001," accessed February 17, 2021
- ↑ Texas Constitution, "Article 3. Legislative Department, Section 4," accessed November 4, 2021
- ↑ Texas Legislature Online, "Bill: HB 1000," accessed June 21, 2023
- ↑ Texas Legislature Online, "Bill: SB 375," accessed June 21, 2023
- ↑ The Texas Tribune, "Texas Senate votes to take up redistricting again," January 11, 2023
