page_title: 1990 United States Senate elections
section_title: Texas
hierarchical_section_title: 1990 United States Senate elections / Texas
caption_attribution_description: English: 1990 Texas Senate election by county
context_page_description: The 1990 United States Senate elections were held on Tuesday, November 6, 1990. The Democratic Party increased its majority with a net gain of one seat from the Republican Party. The election took place in the middle of President George H. W. Bush's term, and, as with most other midterm elections, the party not holding the presidency gained seats in Congress.
  These elections featured the smallest seat change in history since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 with only one seat changing parties. That election featured Democrat Paul Wellstone defeating incumbent Republican Rudy Boschwitz in Minnesota. To date, this is the last cycle in which Democratic candidates won U.S. Senate elections in Oklahoma and Tennessee.
context_section_description: Incumbent Republican Phil Gramm won re-election to a second term, beating Hugh Parmer, State Senator and former Mayor of Fort Worth
  Gramm, a popular incumbent who switched parties a few years prior, had over $5 million on hand.
caption: County Results
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