2024 Texas elections

The 2024 Texas elections will be held on November 5, 2024. Primary elections took place on March 5, 2024. If needed runoff elections will take place on May 28, 2024.

Seats up for election will be all seats of the Texas Legislature, all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz is running for re-election. In addition, Texas counties, cities, and school and other special districts may have local elections and other ballot issues, such as bond proposals.

President of the United States
Texas will have 40 electoral votes in the Electoral College.

United States Class I Senate Seat
Two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz is running for re-election.

Railroad Commissioner
Incumbent commissioner Christi Craddick ran for re-election to a third 6-year term.

Candidates

 * Christie Clark, attorney
 * Christi Craddick, incumbent Railroad Commissioner
 * Corey Howell, construction operator
 * Jim Matlock, oil & gas industry consultant
 * Petra Reyes

Candidates

 * Bill Burch, drilling engineer
 * Katherine Culbert, process safety engineer

Place 2
Incumbent Justice Jimmy Blacklock is running for re-election to a second 6-year term.

Candidates

 * Jimmy Blacklock, incumbent Associate Justice

Candidates

 * DaSean Jones, Judge of the Harris County District Court (180th District)
 * Randy Sarosdy, former counsel to the Texas Justice Court Training Center

Place 4
Incumbent Justice John Devine is running for re-election to a third 6-year term.

Candidates

 * John Devine, incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
 * Brian Walker, Associate Justice of the Second Court of Appeals of Texas

Candidates

 * Christine Vinh Weems, Judge of the Harris County District Court (281st District)

Place 6
Incumbent Justice Jane Bland is running for a full 6-year term, after last being elected in 2020 to finish the remainder of her predecessor, Jeff Brown's, term.

Candidates

 * Jane Bland, incumbent Associate Justice

Candidates

 * Bonnie Lee Goldstein, Associate Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
 * Joe Pool, Judge of the Hays County District Court (428th District)

Court of Criminal Appeals
In 2021, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an 8–1 decision, holding that the Texas Attorney General does not have unilateral authority to prosecute election code violations. All three incumbent Judges up for re-election were part of the majority decision. As a result, Attorney General Ken Paxton recruited primary challengers to all three incumbent Republican judges. Ultimately, all three incumbent Judges were defeated by their challengers in the March Republican primary election.

Presiding Judge
Incumbent Presiding Judge Sharon Keller ran for re-election to a 6th term.

Candidates

 * David Schenck, former Associate Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas (2015–2022)
 * Sharon Keller, incumbent Presiding Judge

Candidates

 * Holly Taylor, assistant director within civil rights division of the Travis County district attorney's office

Place 7
Incumbent Judge Barbara Parker Hervey ran for re-election to a 4th term.

Candidates

 * Barbara Parker Hervey, incumbent Judge
 * Gina Parker, attorney

Candidates

 * Nancy Mulder, Judge of the Dallas County Criminal District Court (No. 6)

Place 8
Incumbent Judge Michelle Slaughter ran for re-election to a 2nd term.

Candidates

 * Lee Finley, criminal defense attorney
 * Michelle Slaughter, incumbent Judge

Candidates

 * Chika Anyiam, Judge of the Dallas County Criminal District Court (No. 7)

State legislature
All 150 seats of the Texas House of Representatives and all 31 seats of the Texas State Senate are up for election. The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature.

Eligible incumbents

 * Austin, Texas: One-term incumbent Kirk Watson is running for re-election.
 * Corpus Christi, Texas: Two-term incumbent Paulette Guajardo is eligible for re-election.
 * El Paso, Texas: One-term incumbent Oscar Leeser is running for re-election.

Ineligible or retiring incumbents

 * Lubbock, Texas: One-term incumbent Trey Payne is retiring.