2022 Texas Senate election

The 2022 Texas Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022. Elections were held to elect senators from all 31 senate districts across the state of Texas. Numerous other federal, state, and local elections, also held on this date. The winners of this election served in the 88th Texas Legislature, with seats apportioned among the 2020 United States census. Republicans had held a majority in the Texas Senate since January 14, 1997, as a result of the 1996 elections.

Retirements
As of April 2022, six state senators, including four Republicans and two Democrats, decided to retire, one of whom sought another office.

Republicans

 * District 11: Larry Taylor was retiring.
 * District 12: Jane Nelson was retiring.
 * District 24: Dawn Buckingham was retiring to run for Texas Land Commissioner.
 * District 31: Kel Seliger was retiring.

Democrats

 * District 10: Beverly Powell was retiring.
 * District 27: Eddie Lucio Jr. was retiring.

District 27
Incumbent Democrat Eddie Lucio Jr., often considered the most conservative Democrat in the Texas Senate, announced he would not run for re-election in November 2021. Lucio was the only Democrat to vote in favor of Texas' abortion laws and school voucher legislation, but all three Democrats running to replace him were pro-choice. He endorsed Morgan LaMantia despite her views on abortion, considering her to be the most moderate of the three, and she won the primary in a runoff. She faced Republican Adam Hinojosa in the general election, who campaigned as part of a Republican effort to capitalize on Donald Trump's strong performance in the Rio Grande Valley in the 2020 election to flip multiple legislative and congressional seats in the region.


 * Polling


 * Generic Democrat vs. generic Republican

LaMantia won the election by an extremely narrow margin, a result which was not confirmed until after a December recount.