Todd Litton
Todd Litton (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Texas State Senate to represent District 15. He lost in the Democratic primary on March 5, 2024.
Litton also ran in a special election to the Texas State Senate to represent District 15. He did not appear on the ballot for the special general election on May 4, 2024.
Litton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Todd Litton was born and lives in Houston, Texas. He earned a B.A. from Duke University, a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and an M.B.A. from Rice University. Litton’s career experience includes working as the chair of the City of Houston's Tower Commission for Mayor Bill White. He practiced law for three years and worked in investments for six years. Litton was appointed to serve as the Precinct 40 state delegate for John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004. He also served as the Precinct 148 Chair and Senate delegate for Barack Obama's for presidential campaign in 2008.[1]
Litton has been affiliated with the following organizations:[2]
- State Bar of Texas
- Texas Association of Mediators
- Association of Attorney-Mediators
- SWAN Impact
- American Leadership Forum
- Aspen Institute-American Express Leadership Academy 2.0
- Texas Lyceum Association
- City of Houston, Tower Commission
- Children’s Defense Fund
- Center for Houston’s Future
Elections
2024
Special election
General election
Special general election for Texas State Senate District 15
Molly Cook defeated Jarvis Johnson in the special general election for Texas State Senate District 15 on May 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Molly Cook (D) | 57.1 | 9,370 |
 | Jarvis Johnson (D) | 42.9 | 7,052 | |
| Total votes: 16,422 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michelle Bonton (D)
- Todd Litton (D)
- Alberto Cardenas Jr. (D)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Cook in this election.
Regular election
General election
General election for Texas State Senate District 15
Incumbent Molly Cook defeated Joseph L. Trahan in the general election for Texas State Senate District 15 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Molly Cook (D) | 61.9 | 200,680 |
 | Joseph L. Trahan (R) | 38.1 | 123,515 | |
| Total votes: 324,195 | |||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Texas State Senate District 15
Incumbent Molly Cook defeated Jarvis Johnson in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas State Senate District 15 on May 28, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Molly Cook | 50.2 | 9,506 |
| Jarvis Johnson | 49.8 | 9,444 | |
| Total votes: 18,950 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas State Senate District 15
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Texas State Senate District 15 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jarvis Johnson | 36.2 | 17,953 |
| ✔ | | Molly Cook | 20.6 | 10,213 |
 | Todd Litton | 15.8 | 7,859 | |
 | Michelle Bonton | 10.7 | 5,291 | |
 | Alberto Cardenas Jr. | 10.5 | 5,196 | |
 | Karthik Soora | 6.2 | 3,091 | |
| Total votes: 49,603 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas State Senate District 15
Joseph L. Trahan advanced from the Republican primary for Texas State Senate District 15 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joseph L. Trahan | 100.0 | 23,627 |
| Total votes: 23,627 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 2
Daniel Crenshaw defeated Todd Litton, Patrick Gunnels, and Scott Cubbler in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 2 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Daniel Crenshaw (R) | 52.8 | 139,188 |
| Todd Litton (D) | 45.6 | 119,992 | |
 | Patrick Gunnels (L) | 0.9 | 2,373 | |
 | Scott Cubbler (Independent) | 0.7 | 1,839 | |
| Total votes: 263,392 | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 2
Daniel Crenshaw defeated Kevin Roberts in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 2 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Daniel Crenshaw | 69.5 | 19,430 |
 | Kevin Roberts | 30.5 | 8,523 | |
| Total votes: 27,953 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 2
Todd Litton defeated J. Darnell Jones, Silky Malik, H. P. Parvizian, and Ali Khorasani in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 2 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Todd Litton | 52.8 | 15,113 |
 | J. Darnell Jones | 22.1 | 6,308 | |
 | Silky Malik | 9.7 | 2,770 | |
 | H. P. Parvizian | 7.9 | 2,259 | |
 | Ali Khorasani | 7.5 | 2,148 | |
| Total votes: 28,598 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 2
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 2 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kevin Roberts | 33.0 | 15,273 |
| ✔ | | Daniel Crenshaw | 27.4 | 12,679 |
 | Kathaleen Wall | 27.1 | 12,524 | |
 | Rick Walker | 7.2 | 3,320 | |
| Jonny Havens | 2.0 | 936 | ||
 | Justin Lurie | 0.9 | 425 | |
 | Jon Spiers | 0.9 | 418 | |
| David Balat | 0.8 | 348 | ||
| Malcolm Whittaker | 0.7 | 322 | ||
| Total votes: 46,245 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Special election
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Regular election
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Todd Litton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Litton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Todd Litton is firmly pro-choice, advocating for a woman's right to make medical decisions about their body without interference from the government. He supports a woman's right to consult with her faith, family, and medical professionals regarding her decision about her pregnancy.
Todd also believes that women should have access to critical health services, like those provided by Planned Parenthood, and will work to restore funding for such services and oppose any further efforts to reduce funding for these programs.
As State Senator, Todd will fight to restore women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions. - Access to a quality education is the greatest equalizer we have as a society. Todd believes in order for Texas to thrive, our public schools must come first. Todd believes in order for Texas to thrive, our public schools must come first. As State Senator, Todd will fight to: Keep public dollars in public schools and stop vouchers. Todd will build a coalition in the Senate that includes Senators who represent a large number of the House Districts that have stood up to vouchers and engage and embolden them to stand up for their school districts, administrators, teachers, students, and families, too. Get the TEA out of whole district takeovers and Houston ISD. Todd will work to repeal the law that led to the takeover of Houston ISD.
- In Texas, Todd believes we need healthcare reform to expand Medicaid, expand access to abortion care, and make healthcare more affordable for all Texans. Todd believes that access to healthcare is a fundamental human right. Ensuring our people have access to healthcare provides them the opportunity to lead healthier lives which then enables them to be more present and constructive in their homes and families, and also allows them to be more productive and innovative in their jobs and communities.
Todd was part of the leadership for the passage of a critical piece of legislation, SB 76 to expand access to high quality early childhood education programs across Texas. Todd worked with legislators and staff in the House and Senate from both parties, and helped build a coalition of private child care providers, public Pre-K’s, and federal Head Start programs and the business community to make the economic development case for increasing access to high quality early childhood education and the human development case (for both our young children and their families). Todd testified before the State Senate and the State House and the bill was passed and signed into law and it still has a significant impact in our state.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Todd Litton for Congress, "About Todd," accessed January 25, 2018
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 6, 2024
