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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 233 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%.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in runoff

Eliminated in primary

Withdrawn

Endorsements

First round

Polling

Graphical summary

Results

Gohmert performed best in Texas's 1st congressional district, where he served as a U.S. representative at the time; Guzman performed best in urban Travis, Harris, and Dallas counties; Bush performed best in the Rio Grande Valley; and Paxton performed best in the Texas Panhandle, South Plains, and Southeast Texas.

Runoff

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in runoff

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

Endorsements

First round

Polling

Graphical summary

Results

Runoff

Polling

Results

Libertarian convention

Declared

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.

Predictions

Polling

Graphical summary<br />

George P. Bush vs. Rochelle Garza<br />

George P. Bush vs. Joe Jaworski<br />

Ken Paxton vs. Joe Jaworski<br />

Ken Paxton vs. Justin Nelson<br />

Results

By congressional district

Paxton won 25 of 38 congressional districts.

Notes

Partisan clients<br />

See also

References

External links

Official campaign websites