# Elections in Texas

Elections in Texas :
General elections
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Gubernatorial elections
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Attorney General elections
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Comptroller elections
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Senate elections
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Austin
Mayoral elections
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Arlington mayoral elections
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Denton mayoral elections
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El Paso
Mayoral elections
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Municipal elections
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Houston
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Laredo
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Lubbock
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San Antonio
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Government :
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From 1836 to 1845, the Republic of Texas elected its own presidents. In 1845, it was admitted to the United States as the state of Texas, and has been a participant in every presidential election since, except for 1864 and 1868. Texas did not participate in these due to its secession from the United States to join the Confederate States of America on February 1, 1861, and its status as an unreconstructed state in 1868 following the American Civil War.
Texas gubernatorial elections, as well as other state office races, are held every four years on the nationwide Election Day, which is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. They are held on years that are even-numbered, but not multiples of four, also known as a midterm, so they do not coincide with the presidential elections. Texas Senate elections for half of the chamber are held every two years on Election Day, with all of the chamber up for election on cycles after major redistricting takes place. Texas House elections are held every two years on Election Day.
For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making part of the Solid South. In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent. By the 1990s, it became the state's dominant political party and remains so to this day, as Democrats have not won a statewide race since the 1994 Lieutenant gubernatorial election. Texas is a majority Republican state with Republicans controlling every statewide office. Texas Republicans have majorities in the State House and Senate, an entirely Republican Texas Supreme Court, control of both Senate seats in the US Congress. Texas is America's most-populous Republican state. Many commentators had suggested that Texas is trending Democratic since 2016, however, Republicans have continued to win every statewide office, albeit by reduced margins, as it was the third-closest state Republicans won in 2020.
Texas was the first state to elect a woman governor, simultaneous to Wyoming in 1924 with the election of Miriam A. Ferguson.
In a 2020 study, Texas was ranked as the hardest state for citizens to vote in.

## Voting system and methods

United States presidential election results for Texas :
| Year | Republican / Whig | Republican / Whig | Democratic | Democratic | Third party(ies) | Third party(ies) |
| Year | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % |
| 2024 | 6,393,597 | 56.05% | 4,835,250 | 42.39% | 177,339 | 1.55% |
| 2020 | 5,890,428 | 52.00% | 5,259,215 | 46.43% | 177,231 | 1.56% |
| 2016 | 4,685,047 | 52.09% | 3,877,868 | 43.12% | 430,940 | 4.79% |
| 2012 | 4,569,843 | 57.13% | 3,308,124 | 41.35% | 121,690 | 1.52% |
| 2008 | 4,479,328 | 55.38% | 3,528,633 | 43.63% | 79,830 | 0.99% |
| 2004 | 4,526,917 | 61.09% | 2,832,704 | 38.22% | 51,144 | 0.69% |
| 2000 | 3,799,639 | 59.30% | 2,433,746 | 37.98% | 174,252 | 2.72% |
| 1996 | 2,736,167 | 48.76% | 2,459,683 | 43.83% | 415,794 | 7.41% |
| 1992 | 2,496,071 | 40.56% | 2,281,815 | 37.08% | 1,376,132 | 22.36% |
| 1988 | 3,036,829 | 55.95% | 2,352,748 | 43.35% | 37,833 | 0.70% |
| 1984 | 3,433,428 | 63.61% | 1,949,276 | 36.11% | 14,867 | 0.28% |
| 1980 | 2,510,705 | 55.28% | 1,881,147 | 41.42% | 149,785 | 3.30% |
| 1976 | 1,953,300 | 47.97% | 2,082,319 | 51.14% | 36,265 | 0.89% |
| 1972 | 2,298,896 | 66.20% | 1,154,291 | 33.24% | 19,527 | 0.56% |
| 1968 | 1,227,844 | 39.87% | 1,266,804 | 41.14% | 584,758 | 18.99% |
| 1964 | 958,566 | 36.49% | 1,663,185 | 63.32% | 5,060 | 0.19% |
| 1960 | 1,121,310 | 48.52% | 1,167,567 | 50.52% | 22,207 | 0.96% |
| 1956 | 1,080,619 | 55.26% | 859,958 | 43.98% | 14,968 | 0.77% |
| 1952 | 1,102,878 | 53.13% | 969,228 | 46.69% | 3,840 | 0.18% |
| 1948 | 303,467 | 24.29% | 824,235 | 65.97% | 121,730 | 9.74% |
| 1944 | 191,425 | 16.64% | 821,605 | 71.42% | 137,301 | 11.94% |
| 1940 | 212,692 | 18.91% | 909,974 | 80.92% | 1,865 | 0.17% |
| 1936 | 104,661 | 12.32% | 739,952 | 87.08% | 5,123 | 0.60% |
| 1932 | 97,959 | 11.35% | 760,348 | 88.06% | 5,119 | 0.59% |
| 1928 | 367,036 | 51.77% | 341,032 | 48.10% | 931 | 0.13% |
| 1924 | 130,023 | 19.78% | 484,605 | 73.70% | 42,881 | 6.52% |
| 1920 | 114,538 | 23.54% | 288,767 | 59.34% | 83,336 | 17.12% |
| 1916 | 64,999 | 17.45% | 286,514 | 76.92% | 20,948 | 5.62% |
| 1912 | 28,530 | 9.45% | 219,489 | 72.73% | 53,769 | 17.82% |
| 1908 | 65,666 | 22.35% | 217,302 | 73.97% | 10,789 | 3.67% |
| 1904 | 51,242 | 21.90% | 167,200 | 71.45% | 15,566 | 6.65% |
| 1900 | 130,641 | 30.83% | 267,432 | 63.12% | 25,633 | 6.05% |
| 1896 | 167,520 | 30.75% | 370,434 | 68.00% | 6,832 | 1.25% |
| 1892 | 81,144 | 19.22% | 239,148 | 56.65% | 101,853 | 24.13% |
| 1888 | 88,422 | 24.73% | 234,883 | 65.70% | 34,208 | 9.57% |
| 1884 | 93,141 | 28.63% | 225,309 | 69.26% | 6,855 | 2.11% |
| 1880 | 57,893 | 23.95% | 156,428 | 64.71% | 27,405 | 11.34% |
| 1876 | 44,800 | 29.96% | 104,755 | 70.04% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1872 | 47,468 | 40.71% | 66,546 | 57.07% | 2,580 | 2.21% |
| 1860 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 62,986 | 100.00% |
| 1856 | 0 | 0.00% | 31,169 | 66.59% | 15,639 | 33.41% |
| 1852 | 4,995 | 26.93% | 13,552 | 73.07% | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1848 | 4,509 | 29.71% | 10,668 | 70.29% | 0 | 0.00% |
To reduce the amount of time required to fill electoral vacancies, in special elections Texas dispenses with party primaries and instead uses a jungle primary system. Candidates of all parties (or no party) appear on the same ballot; if no single one of them receives 50 percent plus 1 vote, the two highest vote-getters also advance to a runoff irrespective of party affiliation.
Texas has two uniform election dates, the first Saturday in May, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
As of 2024, 99.5 percent of registered voters in Texas are in jurisdictions using voting methods with some form of auditable paper ballot, an established best practice for recounts and audits. Just 0.5 percent of Texas voters use electronic direct recording electronic machines (DREs) without a paper record of each vote.

## Voting rights and voter powers
### Procedure

Texas uses an open primary for all partisan offices. Counties have a choice between separate or joint primaries. In this system, voters may vote in either party's primary, without being affiliated with said party. Joint primaries take place at the same time and location, and voters must indicate to election staff which party primary they would like to participate in.
If there is a runoff election, voters may only participate in the runoff of the party they affiliated with in the primary. Party affiliation expires at the end of the voting year in which affiliation was established.

## Elections
### General

* 2024 Texas elections
* 2023 Texas elections
* 2022 Texas elections
* 2021 Texas elections
* 2020 Texas elections

### Gubernatorial

* 2022 Texas gubernatorial election
* 2018 Texas gubernatorial election
* 2014 Texas gubernatorial election
* 2010 Texas gubernatorial election
* 2006 Texas gubernatorial election

### Senatorial

* 2024 United States Senate election in Texas
* 2020 United States Senate election in Texas
* 2018 United States Senate election in Texas
* 2014 United States Senate election in Texas
* 2012 United States Senate election in Texas

### Ballot propositions

* 2023 Texas constitutional amendment election
* 2021 Texas constitutional amendment election
* 2007 Texas constitutional amendment election
* 2005 Texas Proposition 2
* 1972 Texas Proposition 8