Live results: Texas 2026 general election
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The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to helping you navigate Texas policy and politics, including the 2026 elections. Here are live results from the Texas 2026 midterm elections on Nov. 3.
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Note: Republicans redrew Congressional districts last year, in an effort to gain more seats. The U.S. House districts shown below are based on those new maps.
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All state and federal races
U.S. Senate
One of Texas’ two U.S. Senate seats is up for election this year. Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary runoff, and is now facing Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico in the general election.
Spending on advertisement has reached more than $500 million, making this one of the most expensive Senate races in history, according to ad research firm AdImpact.
Governor
The governor is the chief executive of Texas. This person signs and vetoes bills from state lawmakers, leads the state’s military in emergencies and hand picks about 1,500 appointees to lead major state offices. Greg Abbott is seeking re-election for the third time.
Railroad Commissioner
Despite its name, the Railroad Commission regulates the Texas oil and gas industry, not railroads. Railroad Commissioners manage drilling, natural gas facilities, pipelines, hydrogen storage and carbon dioxide injection and storage.
One seat on the three-member board is up for election in 2026. It’s an open race, with no incumbent seeking re-election.
Lieutenant Governor
The lieutenant governor, the second-highest executive in the state, presides over the Texas Senate and largely controls the flow of legislation in the chamber. The office is often described as the most powerful in Texas government. Dan Patrick is seeking re-election for the third time.
Attorney General
The attorney general represents Texas largely in civil litigation as the state’s top lawyer. Ken Paxton is running for U.S. Senate this year after more than a decade as attorney general, creating an open race.
Comptroller
The comptroller is the chief financial officer in Texas. The comptroller’s office oversees the state treasury, collects taxes, forecasts how much money state legislators have available when they draft the state’s two-year budget and manages Texas’ school voucher program.
Don Huffines was appointed to the office in July and is seeking re-election.
Land Commissioner
The land commissioner oversees an agency that handles 13 million acres of state land. The General Land Office also administers federal money for disaster relief and flood mitigation, helps contribute to public school funding and has administrative control over the Alamo.
Current commissioner Dawn Buckingham is seeking re-election.
Agriculture Commissioner
The agriculture commissioner leads the department in charge of regulating the farming industry and financially assisting farmers, ranchers and school nutrition problems. Three-term incumbent Sid Miller lost in the Republican primary to Nate Sheets, creating an open race.
U.S. House
Texas has 38 congressional seats, and all are up for election this year. Many Democratic incumbents were made to run in other districts after Republican state lawmakers redrew the congressional map last year.
State Board of Education
There are 15 districts within the State Board of Education, which sets curriculum and chooses textbooks for Texas public schools. The board also develops educational policies and approves new charter schools with the Texas Education Agency and the Commissioner of Education.
Eight seats on the board are up for election for full terms this year. There’s also an election in District 4 to fill the remainder of Representative Staci Childs’ term after she stepped down.
Texas Supreme Court
The Texas Supreme Court, the state’s highest civil court, has nine justices who are elected statewide. Four seats are up for election, all with Republican incumbents seeking reelection.
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the state’s highest criminal court. All nine members, who are elected statewide, are Republicans. The court hears appeals from lower courts, death penalty cases and “habeas corpus” appeals from convicted felons who claim they were wrongly punished or detained.
Fifteenth Court of Appeals
The 15th Court of Appeals was created by the state legislature in 2023 to oversee appeals that involve the state, cases from business courts and challenges to the constitutionality of state laws. Unlike the other courts of appeals, which are elected by district, this court is statewide. All members are Republicans appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott and face elections for the first time this year.
Texas Senate
In the 31-member Texas Senate, 16 seats are up for election. The most competitive race is the rematch between incumbent Democrat Taylor Rehmet and Republican challenger Leigh Wambsganss in District 9.
Texas House
Each of the 150 seats in the Texas House is up for election this year. Democrats are going into the election hoping to flip about a dozen battleground districts to narrow the 88-62 Republican majority in the House.
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About the data
The Texas Tribune’s election data is provided by The Associated Press, which gathers voting information from the Secretary of State, county election sites and stringers on the ground in Texas. The AP calls winners and provides estimates on how many votes have been counted.
Candidate information comes from the Secretary of State, the Texas Democratic Party, the Republican Party of Texas and Texas Tribune research.
Domestic mail-in ballots turned in and postmarked by election day are counted if they arrived no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 4. Mail-in ballots from military and overseas voters must be postmarked by election day and received by Nov. 9. In close races, mail-in votes help determine the winner, which can delay the race being called.
Methodology
Here’s how we assigned e categories to each county in our “Votes by geography” charts:
Urban counties: Urban counties are the five most populous counties in Texas. Each is at the center of one of the five largest metropolitan areas in Texas: Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio.
Suburban counties: We started with the counties that are designated as “large fringe metros” by the National Center for Health Statistics. We filtered out the counties with less than 50,000 people and counties that didn’t contain at least one city with 25,000 people or more. We categorized Collin County as suburban even though NCHS classifies it as a “large central metro” because of its proximity to Dallas and Fort Worth.
Exurban counties: These are low-density communities that are further out from major metros. This group includes counties that have more than 50,000 people but do not have at least one city, or portion of a city, with at least 25,000 people.
Rural counties: This group includes any county with less than 50,000 people.
Border counties: This group contains every county that directly touches the Texas-Mexico border.