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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%.
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Ken Paxton, incumbent attorney general
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George P. Bush, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office
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Louie Gohmert, U.S. representative for Texas's 1st congressional district (declined to endorse in runoff)
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Eva Guzman, former associate justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2009–2021)
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Matt Krause, state representative from the 93rd district (running for Tarrant County district attorney; endorsed Gohmert)
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Primary results map by county: .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{} Paxton 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Bush 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% Gohmert 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70%
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.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Republican | 823,199 | 42.71% | |
| Republican | 439,240 | 22.79% | |
| Republican | 337,761 | 17.52% | |
| Republican | 327,257 | 16.98% | |
| 1,927,457 | 100.00% |
| Poll source | Date(s)administered | Samplesize | Marginof error | George P.Bush | KenPaxton | Undecided |
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| UT Tyler | May 2–10, 2022 | 570 (LV) | ± 4.6% | 35% | 41% | 24% |
| CWS Research (R) | May 4–10, 2022 | 992 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 31% | 58% | 11% |
| CWS Research (R) | March 29 – April 2, 2022 | 678 (LV) | ± 3.8% | 30% | 59% | 11% |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 438 (LV) | ± 4.7% | 23% | 65% | 12% |
Primary runoff results map by county: Paxton 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% 90–100% Bush 50–60% 70–80% 80–90%
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Republican | 633,223 | 67.96% | |
| Republican | 298,577 | 32.04% | |
| 931,800 | 100.00% |
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Rochelle Mercedes Garza, former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
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Joe Jaworski, attorney, mediator, former mayor of Galveston, and grandson of former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Leon Jaworski
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Mike Fields, attorney and former judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 14 (endorsed Garza in runoff)
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Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney (endorsed Garza in runoff)
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S. T-Bone Raynor, attorney
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Democratic | 438,134 | 42.97% | |
| Democratic | 202,140 | 19.82% | |
| Democratic | 198,108 | 19.43% | |
| Democratic | 125,373 | 12.30% | |
| Democratic | 55,944 | 5.49% | |
| 1,019,699 | 100.00% |
| Poll source | Date(s)administered | Samplesize | Marginof error | RochelleGarza | JoeJaworski | Undecided |
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| UT Tyler | May 2–10, 2022 | 501 (LV) | ± 4.9% | 35% | 20% | 46% |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 435 (LV) | ± 4.7% | 46% | 31% | 23% |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Democratic | 305,168 | 62.67% | |
| Democratic | 181,744 | 37.33% | |
| 486,912 | 100.00% |
- Mark Ash, attorney and candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas in 2020
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.
| Source | Ranking | As of |
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| Sabato's Crystal Ball | Leans R | November 3, 2022 |
| Elections Daily | Likely R | November 1, 2022 |
Graphical summary
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| Poll source | Date(s)administered | Samplesize | Marginof error | KenPaxton (R) | RochelleGarza (D) | MarkAsh (L) | Other | Undecided |
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| CWS Research (R) | November 2–5, 2022 | 786 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 44% | 38% | 5% | – | 12% |
| UT Tyler | October 17–24, 2022 | 1,330 (RV) | ± 2.9% | 39% | 35% | 5% | 4% | 18% |
| 973 (LV) | ± 3.4% | 42% | 38% | 4% | 3% | 12% | ||
| Emerson College | October 17–19, 2022 | 1,000 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 47% | 42% | 4% | – | 8% |
| Siena College | October 16–19, 2022 | 649 (LV) | ± 5.1% | 48% | 42% | – | 2% | 8% |
| ActiVote | June 23 – September 21, 2022 | 209 (LV) | ± 7.0% | 45% | 43% | 12% | – | – |
| Siena College | September 14–18, 2022 | 651 (LV) | ± 4.4% | 47% | 42% | – | – | 11% |
| Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation | September 6–15, 2022 | 1,172 (LV) | ± 2.9% | 47% | 42% | 3% | – | 8% |
| UT Tyler | September 7–13, 2022 | 1,243 (RV) | ± 2.9% | 37% | 30% | 6% | 6% | 20% |
| YouGov/UT | August 26 – September 6, 2022 | 1,200 (RV) | ± 2.8% | 38% | 33% | 4% | 5% | 21% |
| YouGov/UH/TSU | August 11–29, 2022 | 1,312 (LV) | ± 2.7% | 45% | 42% | 3% | – | 10% |
| UT Tyler | August 1–7, 2022 | 1,384 (RV) | ± 2.8% | 34% | 32% | 8% | 7% | 18% |
| 1,199 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 36% | 34% | 8% | 6% | 16% | ||
| YouGov/UH | June 27 – July 7, 2022 | 1,169 (RV) | ± 2.9% | 43% | 40% | 5% | – | 12% |
| 1,006 (LV) | ± 3.1% | 46% | 41% | 4% | – | 9% | ||
| YouGov/UT | June 16–24, 2022 | 1,200 (RV) | ± 2.8% | 37% | 29% | 5% | 5% | 24% |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 1,139 (LV) | ± 2.6% | 48% | 42% | 3% | – | 7% |
State house district results
State senate district results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±% |
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| Republican | 4,278,986 | 53.42% | +2.85% | |
| Democratic | 3,497,267 | 43.66% | −3.35% | |
| Libertarian | 233,750 | 2.92% | +0.49% | |
| 8,010,003 | 100.00% | |||
Paxton won 25 of 38 congressional districts.
| District | Paxton | Garza | Representative |
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| 76% | 22% | Louie Gohmert (117th Congress) | |
| Nathaniel Moran (118th Congress) | |||
| 61% | 36% | Dan Crenshaw | |
| 57% | 39% | Van Taylor (117th Congress) | |
| Keith Self (118th Congress) | |||
| 64% | 33% | Pat Fallon | |
| 62% | 35% | Lance Gooden | |
| 63% | 34% | Jake Ellzey | |
| 35% | 63% | Lizzie Fletcher | |
| 66% | 32% | Kevin Brady (117th Congress) | |
| Morgan Luttrell (118th Congress) | |||
| 23% | 75% | Al Green | |
| 60% | 37% | Michael McCaul | |
| 72% | 25% | August Pfluger | |
| 58% | 38% | Kay Granger | |
| 73% | 24% | Ronny Jackson | |
| 65% | 32% | Randy Weber | |
| 51% | 47% | Vicente Gonzalez (117th Congress) | |
| Monica De La Cruz (118th Congress) | |||
| 34% | 63% | Veronica Escobar | |
| 63% | 34% | Pete Sessions | |
| 25% | 72% | Sheila Jackson Lee | |
| 75% | 23% | Jodey Arrington | |
| 32% | 65% | Joaquín Castro | |
| 59% | 38% | Chip Roy | |
| 59% | 39% | Troy Nehls | |
| 53% | 44% | Tony Gonzales | |
| 55% | 41% | Beth Van Duyne | |
| 66% | 31% | Roger Williams | |
| 59% | 37% | Michael Burgess | |
| 62% | 35% | Michael Cloud | |
| 45% | 52% | Henry Cuellar | |
| 30% | 68% | Sylvia Garcia | |
| 21% | 76% | Eddie Bernice Johnson (117th Congress) | |
| Jasmine Crockett (118th Congress) | |||
| 59% | 37% | John Carter | |
| 33% | 64% | Colin Allred | |
| 25% | 72% | Marc Veasey | |
| 41% | 57% | Mayra Flores (117th Congress) | |
| Vicente Gonzalez (118th Congress) | |||
| 25% | 72% | Lloyd Doggett (117th Congress) | |
| Greg Casar (118th Congress) | |||
| 67% | 31% | Brian Babin | |
| 20% | 77% | Lloyd Doggett | |
| 59% | 38% | Wesley Hunt |
Partisan clients
- 2022 United States attorney general elections
Official campaign websites
- Rochelle Garza (D) for Attorney General
- Ken Paxton (R) for Attorney General
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