Texas US Senate 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Texas.
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What the Texas US Senate election decides
The Senate confirms federal judges and cabinet officers, ratifies treaties, and can stop legislation the House passes. With a six-year term and a hundred-member chamber, a single seat is a larger share of the institution than any House district, which is why Senate races draw national money into state contests.
Each state sends two senators regardless of population, so this seat carries the same weight as California's or Wyoming's. Texas voters fill it alongside all 38 of the state's House seats and the governorship, and a Senate term runs six years, spanning two future Congresses and, in this case, the next presidential election.
How Texas votes
Texas is the largest Republican-led state, with booming and diversifying metros set against a vast conservative rural base. Energy, the border and the grid define its statewide races, which have tightened without yet flipping. That backdrop is the ground any Texas campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 United States Senate election in Texas will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Texas. Republican state attorney general Ken Paxton and Democratic state representative James Talarico are the nominees for their respective parties.
Four-term Republican incumbent John Cornyn sought re-election, but was challenged for the party's nomination by Paxton. After no candidate received a majority in the March 3 primary, Paxton, aided by a late endorsement from President Donald Trump, defeated Cornyn with 63.8% of the vote in a runoff on May 26. Cornyn is the first incumbent senator from Texas to lose renomination since 1970. In the Democratic primary, Talarico won the nomination with 52.4% of the vote over congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
Democrats have not won a Senate election in Texas since 1988.
Latest coverage of the Texas US Senate race
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Every Texas House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Texas state page.
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Analysis covering Texas
Ten whole congressional districts fit inside Los Angeles County
Seventy-nine of the 435 districts sit entirely within a single county. Ten of them are in one county in California.
One seat covers 34 square kilometres. One seat covers 1,713,379.
New York's 12th and Alaska's at-large seat each elect one member of the House. On the ground, one is fifty thousand times the size of the other.