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The 2024 Texas elections were held on November 5, 2024. Primary elections took place on March 5, 2024. Runoff elections took place on May 28, 2024.
Seats up for election were all seats of the
Texas Legislature
The Texas State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a p ...
, all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate
The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and ...
, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz
Rafael Edward Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 ...
ran for and won re-election. In addition, Texas counties, cities, and school and other special districts had local elections and other ballot issues, such as bond proposals.
Federal offices
President of the United States
Republican Donald Trump won the state of Texas by a wide margin, winning all 40 of the state'selectoral votes
An electoral college is a body whose task is to elect a candidate to a particular office. It is mostly used in the political context for a constitutional body that appoints the head of state or government, and sometimes the upper parliamenta ...
.
United States Class I Senate Seat
Two-term incumbent RepublicanSenator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or Legislative chamber, chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the Ancient Rome, ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior ...
Ted Cruz
Rafael Edward Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 ...
won re-election by a wide margin.
United States House of Representatives
Republicans won 25 seats in theU.S. House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of th ...
to the Democrats' 13, with no net change from the previous election.
Executive
Railroad Commissioner
Incumbent commissioner Christi Craddick was re-elected to a third 6-year term.Republican primary
=Candidates
= *Christie Clark, attorney *Christi Craddick
Christi Leigh Craddick (born July 1, 1970) is an American politician. She is one of three members of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the elected regulatory body over oil, natural gas, utilities, and surface mining first established in 1891. Aft ...
, incumbent Railroad Commissioner
*Corey Howell, construction operator
*Jim Matlock, oil & gas industry consultant
*Petra Reyes
=Endorsements
==Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates
= *Bill Burch, drilling engineer *Katherine Culbert, process safety engineer=Endorsements
==Results
=General election
=Polling
==Endorsements
==Results
=Judicial
Supreme Court
Place 2
Incumbent Justice Jimmy Blacklock was re-elected to a second 6-year term.=Republican primary
=Candidates *
Jimmy Blacklock
Jimmy Blacklock (born August 28, 1980) is an American lawyer who has served as the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court since 2025. He previously served as a justice of the same court from 2018 to 2025.
Background
Blacklock was born in Hou ...
, incumbent Associate Justice
Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates *DaSean Jones, Judge of the Harris County District Court (180th District) *Randy Sarosdy, former
counsel
A counsel or a counsellor at law is a person who gives advice and deals with various issues, particularly in legal matters. It is a title often used interchangeably with the title of ''lawyer''.
The word ''counsel'' can also mean advice given ...
to the Texas Justice Court Training Center
Endorsements
Results
=General election
=Polling
Endorsements
Results
Place 4
Incumbent Justice John Devine was re-elected to a third 6-year term.=Republican primary
=Candidates * John Devine, incumbent Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of Texas
The Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) is the court of last resort for civil matters (including juvenile delinquency cases, which are categorized as civil under the Texas Family Code) in the U.S. state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court ...
*Brian Walker, Associate Justice of the Second Court of Appeals of Texas
The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go to one of the fifteen intermediate courts of appeals, with one exception: death penalty cases. ...
Endorsements
Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates *Christine Vinh Weems, Judge of the Harris County District Court (281st District)
Results
=General election
=Polling
Endorsements
Results
Place 6
Incumbent Justice Jane Bland was elected to a full 6-year term, after last being elected in 2020 to finish the remainder of her predecessor, Jeff Brown's, term.=Republican primary
=Candidates *
Jane Bland
Jane Nenninger Bland (born June 1, 1965) is an American lawyer from Texas who serves as a justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.
Education
She received her Bachelor of Business Administration and Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Au ...
, incumbent Associate Justice
Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates *Bonnie Lee Goldstein, Associate Justice of the
Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
The Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas is one of the 14 Texas Courts of Appeals. It currently sits in Dallas, Texas. It has simultaneously both the smallest Court of Appeals' jurisdictional geographic size (only six counties, one of which is shared ...
*Joe Pool, Judge of the Hays County
Hays County is a county in the central portion of the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, its official population had reached 241,067. The county seat is San Marcos. Hays, alon ...
District Court (428th District)
Endorsements
Results
=General election
=Polling
Endorsements
Results
Court of Criminal Appeals
In 2021, theTexas Court of Criminal Appeals
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) is the court of last resort for all criminal matters in Texas. The Court, which is based in the Supreme Court Building in Downtown Austin, is composed of a presiding judge and eight judges.
Article V ...
issued an 8–1 decision, holding that the Texas Attorney General
The Texas attorney general is the chief legal officer
of the does not have unilateral authority to prosecute election code violations. All three incumbent Judges up for re-election were part of the majority decision. As a result, Attorney General
of the does not have unilateral authority to prosecute election code violations. All three incumbent Judges up for re-election were part of the majority decision. As a result, Attorney General
Ken Paxton
Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. (born December 23, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Texas Senate representing the e ...
recruited primary challengers to all three incumbent Republican judges. Ultimately, all three incumbent Judges were defeated by their challengers in the March Republican primary election.
Presiding Judge
Incumbent Presiding Judge Sharon Keller ran for re-election to a 6th term.=Republican primary
=Candidates *David Schenck, former Associate Justice of the
Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
The Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas is one of the 14 Texas Courts of Appeals. It currently sits in Dallas, Texas. It has simultaneously both the smallest Court of Appeals' jurisdictional geographic size (only six counties, one of which is shared ...
(2015–2022)
*Sharon Keller
Sharon Faye Keller (born August 1, 1953) is the Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She is a Republican.
Education and early career
Born in Texas, Keller graduated from Rice University in Houston in 1975 with a major in phil ...
, incumbent Presiding Judge
Endorsements
Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates *Holly Taylor, assistant director within civil rights division of the
Travis County
Travis County is located in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,290,188. It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas. Its county seat and most populous city is Austin, the state's capital. The county was established i ...
district attorney's office
Results
=General election
=Polling
Endorsements
Results
Place 7
Incumbent Judge Barbara Parker Hervey ran for re-election to a 4th term.=Republican primary
=Candidates *
Barbara Parker Hervey
Barbara Parker Hervey (born June 26, 1953) is a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; she holds the Place 7 seat.
Background
Hervey earned her bachelor's degree in 1975 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina ...
, incumbent Judge
*Gina Parker, attorney
Endorsements
Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates *Nancy Mulder, Judge of the Dallas County Criminal District Court (No. 6)
Results
=General election
=Polling
Endorsements
Results
Place 8
Incumbent Judge Michelle Slaughter ran for re-election to a 2nd term.=Republican primary
=Candidates *Lee Finley, criminal defense attorney * Michelle Slaughter, incumbent Judge
Endorsements
Results
=Democratic primary
=Candidates *Chika Anyiam, Judge of the Dallas County Criminal District Court (No. 7)
Results
=General election
=Polling
Endorsements
Results
State legislature
All 150 seats of theTexas House of Representatives
The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for two-year terms. There are no Term limits in the United States, term limits. The ...
and 15 of the 31 seats of the Texas State Senate
The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature, with the Texas House of Representatives functioning as the lower house. Together, they form the state legislature of the state of Texas.
The Senate is made up of 31 members, where eac ...
are up for election. The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature
The 89th Texas Legislature is the meeting of the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Texas, composed of the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The regular session is scheduled to until June 2, 2025.
All 150 seats in the ...
.
Texas Senate
Texas House of Representatives
Local elections
Mayoral elections
Eligible incumbents
*Austin, Texas
Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and W ...
: One-term incumbent Kirk Watson
Kirk Preston Watson (born March 18, 1958) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Austin since 2023, previously holding the office as the 54th mayor from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United S ...
is running for re-election.
*Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi ( ; ) is a Gulf Coast of the United States, coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, Texas, Nueces County with portions extending into Aransas County, T ...
: Two-term incumbent Paulette Guajardo is eligible for re-election.
*El Paso, Texas
El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...
: One-term incumbent Oscar Leeser
Oscar Leeser (born May 7, 1958) is an American politician who served as the 52nd mayor of El Paso, Texas from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 50th mayor from 2013 to 2017.
Early life and education
...
is running for re-election.
Ineligible or retiring incumbents
*Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( )
is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the ...
: Mark McBrayer was elected on May 4 to replace retiring one-term incumbent Republican Trey Payne.
See also
*2024 United States elections
Elections in the United States, Elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. In 2024 United States presidential election, the presidential election, former Republican President Donald Trump, seeking a non-consecutive second term ...
Notes
Partisan clientsReferences
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Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and has an international border wit ...