2022 Texas Attorney General election

The 2022 Texas Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Texas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton won re-election to his third term. Paxton won all but 21 counties and won the popular vote by a margin of 9.7%, underperforming Governor Greg Abbott's concurrent bid for re-election by 1.1%.

Nominee

 * Ken Paxton, incumbent attorney general

Eliminated in runoff

 * George P. Bush, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office

Eliminated in primary

 * Louie Gohmert, U.S. Representative for TX's 1st congressional district (declined to endorse in runoff)
 * Eva Guzman, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2009–2021)

Withdrawn

 * Matt Krause, state representative from the 93rd district (running for Tarrant County district attorney; endorsed Gohmert)

Results
[[File:2022 Texas Attorney General Republican primary election results map by county.svg|thumb|right|Primary results map by county: {{legend|#E27F90|Paxton}}

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Results
[[File:2022 Texas Attorney General Republican primary runoff election results map by county.svg|thumb|right|Primary runoff results map by county:{{legend|#E27F90|Paxton}}

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Nominee

 * Rochelle Mercedes Garza, former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union

Eliminated in runoff

 * Joe Jaworski, attorney, mediator, former mayor of Galveston, and grandson of former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Leon Jaworski

Eliminated in primary

 * Mike Fields, attorney and former judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 14 (endorsed Garza in runoff)
 * Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney (endorsed Garza in runoff)
 * S. T-Bone Raynor, attorney

Declined

 * Justin Nelson, nominee for Texas Attorney General in 2018

Declared

 * Mark Ash, attorney and candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas in 2020

General election
On October 27, 2022, Libertarian nominee Mark Ash published an op-ed in The Amarillo Pioneer in which he blasted Ken Paxton as "the poster child for corruption and authoritarianism" and recommended that if voters were "reluctant to throw away their votes on a third-party candidate," they should vote for Democratic nominee Rochelle Garza instead. The Texas Democratic Party put out a statement claiming that Ash had endorsed Garza, but Ash clarified that he was not endorsing her, nor would he be dropping out of the race.

Polling

 * Graphical summary


 * George P. Bush vs. Rochelle Garza
 * George P. Bush vs. Joe Jaworski
 * Ken Paxton vs. Joe Jaworski
 * Ken Paxton vs. Justin Nelson

By congressional district
Paxton won 25 of 38 congressional districts.