2024 United States Senate election in Texas

The 2024 United States Senate election in Texas will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Texas. Two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz is seeking a third term in office. Primary elections took place on March 5, 2024 during Super Tuesday.

U.S. Representative Colin Allred won the Democratic nomination to challenge Cruz. If he wins, he will become the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate race in Texas since 1988 and the first Democrat to win any statewide election in Texas since 1994.

Background
Texas is generally considered to be a Republican stronghold, having not elected a Democrat to any statewide office since 1994. Republicans control both U.S. Senate seats, all statewide offices, both houses of the Texas Legislature, and a large majority in Texas' U.S. House congressional delegation. Cruz was first elected in 2012, defeating Paul Sadler by 15.84 points and was reelected in 2018 by only 2.56 points, narrowly defeating Beto O'Rourke. The close elections in 2018 prompted many electoral analysts to speculate that Texas could become a swing state, but in the 2020 and 2022 elections, Republicans increased their margins of victory. This race is considered to heavily favor Cruz, but some consider the race to have a potential to become competitive.

Nominee

 * Ted Cruz, incumbent U.S. senator (2013–present)

Eliminated in primary

 * Holland Gibson, retiree
 * Rufus Lopez, attorney

Declined

 * Dan Crenshaw, U.S. representative from TX's 2nd congressional district (2019–present) (running for re-election)
 * Adam Kinzinger, former U.S. representative from IL's 16th congressional district (2011–2023)

Results
[[File:Senate Texas Primary Republican 2024.svg|thumb|300px|Results by county: {{legend|#501606|Cruz}}

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Nominee

 * Colin Allred, U.S. representative from TX's 32nd congressional district (2019–present)

Eliminated in primary

 * Meri Gomez, tax consultant
 * Mark Gonzalez, former Nueces County District Attorney (2017–2023)
 * Roland Gutierrez, state senator from the 19th district (2021–present)
 * Robert Hassan, businessman
 * Steven Keough, law professor
 * Heli Rodriguez-Prilliman, tech entrepreneur
 * Carl Sherman, state representative from the 109th district (2019–present)
 * Thierry Tchenko, home repair nonprofit executive and former associate director of the District of Columbia Office of Policy

Disqualified

 * Aaron Arguijo, coffee shop owner

Withdrew

 * John Love III, former Midland city councilor and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020 (running for U.S. House)
 * Zachariah Manning, businessman (running for U.S. House)

Declined

 * Julián Castro, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2014–2017), former mayor of San Antonio (2009–2014), and candidate for President of the United States in 2020
 * Veronica Escobar, U.S. representative for TX's 16th congressional district (2019–present) (running for re-election, endorsed Allred)
 * Scott Kelly, retired NASA astronaut and brother of Arizona Senator Mark Kelly

Results
[[File:Senate Texas Primary Democratic 2024.svg|thumb|300px|Results by county: {{legend|#3771c8|Allred}}

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Nominee

 * Ted Brown, insurance adjuster and nominee for TX's 17th congressional district in 2020

Declared

 * Tracy Andrus, director of the Lee P. Brown Criminal Justice Institute at Wiley University

Polling

 * Ted Cruz vs. Colin Allred vs. Ted Brown


 * Ted Cruz vs. Roland Gutierrez