Title: 2018 Texas elections
Content:  Incumbent governor Greg Abbott was running for a second term. He was first elected in 2014 after serving twelve years as Texas Attorney General, and he succeeded Rick Perry as governor. Abbott won the March 20, 2018, Republican primary, while Lupe Valdez won the Democratic runoff against Andrew White, becoming the first Latina nominated by a major party for statewide office in Texas. Libertarian Mark Tippetts also ran against Abbott. Tippetts defeated Kathie Glass, Patrick "Not Governor" Smith, and Kory Watkins at the party convention to earn his nomination.
Title: 2014 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  The 2014 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry, who had served since the resignation of then-Governor George W. Bush on December 21, 2000, declined to run for an unprecedented fourth full term, making this the first open election for governor since 1990. The election took place between nominees who were selected on March 4, 2014: Republican State Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis. Also on the ballot were Libertarian Party candidate Kathie Glass and Green Party candidate Brandon Parmer. Abbott was projected to carry the election, and ultimately won handily with a 20.4 percentage point advantage. Exit polls showed Abbott winning Whites (72% to 25%), while Davis received majorities among African Americans (92% to 7%) and Hispanics (55% to 44%). Abbott won roughly half of Hispanic men, 54% of all women, and 62% of married women. Abbott took office on January 20, 2015, as the 48th Governor of Texas.
Title: 2018 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  The 2018 Texas gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of Texas, concurrently with the election of Texas's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other congressional, state and local elections throughout the United States and Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott successfully won re-election to a second term in office defeating Democratic nominee Lupe Valdez, the former sheriff of Dallas County, and Libertarian nominee Mark Tippetts, a former member of the Lago Vista city council. The Republican and Democratic party primaries were held on March 6, 2018, making them the first primaries of the 2018 electoral season. Abbott won the March 6 primary with 90% of the vote 
Title: 2018 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  receive the Republican nomination, while Democratic candidates Lupe Valdez and Andrew White advanced to a May 22 runoff. Valdez defeated White in the runoff with 53.1% of the vote and faced Abbott in the general election as the Democratic nominee. Valdez's nomination made her the first openly gay person nominated for governor by a major party in the state. Tippetts was nominated at the Libertarian Party of Texas' state convention in Houston April 13–15, 2018. He defeated three challengers, as well as the None Of The Above option, on the first ballot and received more than 70% approval from Libertarian party delegates. Despite considerably closer contests in other Texas state elections, Abbott handily won a 
Title: 2022 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  The 2022 Texas gubernatorial election will take place on November 8, 2022, to elect the next governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott is running for re-election to a third term. On June 4, 2021, Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West announced his resignation as party chair, which was seen at the time as a possible prelude to a primary challenge to incumbent Governor Greg Abbott, given West's record of vociferous criticism of Abbott's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas. The history of conflict between West and Abbott included a lawsuit by West and other Republicans in which they challenged Abbott's extension of the early voting period in 2020 and a protest outside the Governor's Mansion over pandemic-related shutdowns. Both West and another GOP primary challenger, Don Huffines, are further to the right of Governor Abbott. Texas does not have gubernatorial term limits. All statewide elected offices are currently held by Republicans, including all judicial positions on the two courts of last resort for civil and criminal matters. In his most recent gubernatorial race in 2018, Abbott won with 55.8% of the vote.
Title: 1998 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  The 1998 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1998, to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor George W. Bush was re-elected in a landslide over 4-term Democratic Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, winning 68% of the vote to Mauro's 31%. Bush's 37% margin of victory was the largest won by any candidate since 1966 and is, to date, the largest ever won by a Republican candidate. Bush carried 239 counties, while Mauro carried just 15. Exit polls revealed that Bush won 27% of the African-American vote, which was the highest percentage for any Republican statewide candidate, and 49% of the Latino vote. Bush was sworn in for a second term as Governor on January 19, 1999. As of 2021, this is the most recent gubernatorial election in which El Paso County and Travis County voted for the Republican candidate.
Title: 2018 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  term with the highest margin of victory of any state official on the ballot, although Valdez also won the largest vote share for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate since Ann Richards in 1994. Tippetts' showing exceeded the previous record for most votes for a Libertarian nominee for Texas governor; that record had been set in 1990. The election also took place alongside a closer, higher-profile Senate race between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, which may have played a factor in making the Democratic gubernatorial candidate considerably more competitive than in 2014. Abbott won a majority among whites (72% to 26%), while Valdez won majorities among African Americans (80% to 16%) and Latinos (63% to 35%).
Title: 2010 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  The 2010 Texas gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry ran successfully for election to a third consecutive term. He won the Republican primary against U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and political newcomer, Debra Medina. The former Mayor of Houston, Bill White, won the Democratic nomination. Kathie Glass, a lawyer from Houston and previous candidate for Texas Attorney General, won the Libertarian nomination. Deb Shafto was the nominee of the Texas Green Party. Andy Barron, an orthodontist from Lubbock, was a declared write-in candidate. Exit polls showed Perry winning Whites (71% to 29%), while White performed well among African Americans (88% to 12%) and Latinos (61% to 38%) Perry's fourth inauguration for a third full four-year term began on January 18, 2011, on the State Capitol South Grounds.
Title: Wendy Davis (politician)
Content:  On October 3, 2013, Davis announced her intention to run for Governor of Texas in the 2014 gubernatorial election. On March 4, 2014, she won the Democratic nomination with 432,065 votes (79.1 percent), defeating her only challenger, Reynaldo "Ray" Madrigal, who received 114,458 votes (20.9 percent). Davis was the first female nominee for Texas governor since the defeat of Gov. Ann Richards in 1994 by George W. Bush. In the election on November 4, 2014, she lost to Republican nominee Greg Abbott, the then-outgoing Texas Attorney General. In January 2014, Wayne Slater, of The Dallas Morning News, reported that while the basic story in which Davis defined herself politically was true, the full story was "more complicated" and the short version 
Title: 2002 Texas gubernatorial election
Content:  The 2002 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 2002, to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry, who had ascended to the governorship after the resignation of George W. Bush to become President of the United States, was elected to his first full term in office, winning 58% of the vote to Democrat Tony Sanchez's 40%. Perry carried 218 out of 254 counties, while Sanchez only carried 36. Exit polls showed Perry easily won among white voters with 72% while Sanchez won the African American vote with 85% and the Latino vote with 65%. His second inauguration for a first full four-year term began on January 21, 2003, on the Texas State Capitol South Grounds. As of 2022, this is the last time the Republican candidate carried Dallas County.

Question: who won the governor election in texas?
Answer: Rick Perry.