Mar 1, 2017 | By the Numbers, Straight-ticket Voting
Forty Texas House districts saw one party’s candidate have at least a 20K-vote advantage in straight-party voting for the 2016 general election, up from 27 in 2012. Of the 40 seats, Republicans held the advantage in 27 seats, and Democrats held the advantage in 13. On...
Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign Finance
State and legislative candidates were required to file 8-day-out campaign finance reports yesterday. The full reports are not yet available online, but we’re able to report summary totals for most candidates this morning. In this post, we summarize some of the hottest...
Feb 18, 2016 | House Race Analyses
Filed under HD1, HD4.
Feb 17, 2016 | By the Numbers
13 Number of state representatives who have returned to the House after missing at least one term since 2000. All but two of those representatives returned in the election cycle immediately following the one they left. At least one former representative has returned...
Feb 2, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Filed under HD11, HD112, HD113, HD114, HD115, HD12, HD121, HD127, HD128, HD130, HD131, HD134, HD14, HD150, HD17, HD2, HD20, HD27, HD33, HD36, HD4, HD47, HD49, HD5, HD55, HD59, HD60, HD65, HD73, HD75, HD8, HD81, HD84, HD89, HD92, HD94,...
Jan 19, 2016 | Campaign News
Texas Assoc. of Realtors: TREPAC announced its primary election endorsements. The group sided mostly with incumbents but endorsed these three challengers: HD4: Former Rep. Lance Gooden over Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R-Kaufman) HD55: Former Rep. Hugh Shine over Rep. Molly...
Jan 18, 2016 | Campaign Finance
Filed under HD1, HD106, HD112, HD114, HD115, HD116, HD117, HD120, HD121, HD126, HD128, HD130, HD131, HD139, HD14. HD92, HD144, HD148, HD149, HD150, HD18, HD2, HD20, HD27, HD33, HD4, HD47, HD49, HD5, HD54, HD55, HD58, HD60, HD64, HD7, HD71, HD73, HD75, HD77, HD8, HD81,...
Jan 9, 2016 | By the Numbers
Filed under HD1, HD11, HD110, HD115, HD118, HD12, HD17, HD4, HD58,...
Jan 6, 2016 | Campaign News
HOSPAC: The Texas Hospital Assoc. PAC recently released its complete list of 2016 endorsements. The PAC endorsed most incumbents, but it also endorsed three challengers: HD4: Former Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Terrell) over Rep. Stuart Spitzer (R-Kaufman) HD92: Scott Fisher...
Dec 7, 2015 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update (No. 84-44). Highlights include: Updated list of incumbents with major party challengers who have filed against them Updated list of incumbents who, as far as we can tell,...
Sep 11, 2015 | Archived Updates
A few things we’d like to share with you today: SD24: Rep. Susan King (R-Abilene) formed an exploratory committee to explore a run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay). King also said he did not intend to run for re-election to HD71...
Aug 3, 2015 | Archived Updates
We sent this to our subscribers today: Dear Subscriber, Attached please find our latest update (No. 84-27). Highlights include: AG Ken Paxton’s indicted, plus explanation of process for filling a vacancy in a statewide office should one occur Crownover retiring...
