The 2022 Texas House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 2022, to elect representatives from all 150 House of Representatives districts across the U.S. state of Texas. They were held alongside numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2022 Texas State Senate election. The winners of this election served in the 88th Texas Legislature, with seats apportioned according to the 2020 United States census.
Background Democrats made major inroads in the Texas House of Representatives in 2018, especially in suburban areas; however, in 2020, Republicans maintained control of the Texas House of Representatives by an 83–67 margin. Republicans had controlled the chamber since the 2002 election.
This election was the first election held after the 2020 United States redistricting cycle.
In July 2021, the majority of Democratic representatives broke quorum during a special legislative session in protest of a controversial Republican-backed voting restrictions bill.
On November 2, 2021, Republican John Lujan won a special election in District 118, flipping it.
On November 15, 2021, Democratic representative Ryan Guillen announced he was changing his party affiliation to Republican. Guillen was the only Democrat in the state house to vote in favor of the Republicans' voting and transgender athlete laws.
This left the partisan balance at 85 Republicans and 65 Democrats going into the 2022 elections. Democrats would have needed to flip 11 seats in order to claim control of the chamber from Republicans.
Redistricting Following the 2020 United States census, the Texas Legislature underwent its decennial redistricting. Texas House of Representatives districts follow the "county line rule," effectively granting individual counties delegations of state house seats based on their population. The census found that Texas had a population of 29,145,505 in 2020, giving each district an "ideal population" of 194,303 people. In 2010, the "ideal population for a district" was 167,637 people. Counties with at least this number of people must fully contain at least one state house district. Counties with sufficient population for two or more districts must be divided into that number of districts. Should a county have sufficient population for one or more district plus a fraction of another, one district from another county may extend into it to represent the remaining population. District delegations for counties with at least one district changed as follows following the 2020 Census: County2010 pop.SeatsPartial2020 pop.SeatsPartial+/– W+/– PBell County310,2351Yes370,6471YesBexar County1,714,77310No2,009,32410NoBrazoria County313,1661Yes372,0312Yes1Brazos County194,8511Yes233,8491YesCameron County406,2202Yes421,0171Two*1Collin County782,3414Yes1,064,4655Yes1Dallas County2,368,13914No2,613,53914NoDenton County662,6144No906,4224YesEl Paso County800,6475No865,6574Yes1Ellis County149,6100Yes192,4551No1Fort Bend County585,3753Yes822,7794Yes1Galveston County291,3091Yes350,6821YesHarris County4,092,45924No4,731,14524NoHays County157,1270Yes241,0671Yes1Hidalgo County774,7694Yes870,7814YesJefferson County252,2731Yes256,5261YesLubbock County278,8311Yes310,6391YesMcLennan County234,9061Yes260,5791YesMontgomery County455,7462Yes620,4433Yes1Nueces County340,2232No353,1781Yes1Smith County209,7141Yes233,4791YesTarrant County1,809,03411No2,110,64011NoTravis County1,024,2666No1,290,1886YesWebb County250,3041Yes267,1141YesWilliamson County422,6792Yes609,0173No1 *Cameron County contains parts of both District 35 and District 37, which the Mexican American Legislative Caucus argued in MALC v. Abbott violates the "county line rule."
As a result of these changes, the following districts drastically moved:
District 9 moved from the Louisiana/Arkansas border to central East Texas. Districts 12 and 13 switched places. District 19 moved from East Texas to Central Texas. District 57 moved from East Texas to Denton County. District 61 moved from Wise and Parker Counties to Collin County. District 68 moved from West Texas to North Texas. District 76 moved from El Paso County to Fort Bend County.
Seats without incumbents
District 13 (around McLennan County) District 20 (Williamson County) District 37 (Willacy & Cameron counties) District 57 (Denton County) District 65 (Denton County) District 70 (Collin County) District 73 (Hays & Comal Counties) District 76 (Fort Bend County) District 85 (west of Harris County) District 107 (Dallas County)
Double-bunked incumbents *Double bunked means that two incumbents are forced into the same district due to redistricting. District 7 - Jay Dean (R) and Chris Paddie (R) District 9 - James White (R) and Trent Ashby (R) District 12 - Kyle Kacal (R) and Ben Leman (R) District 19 - Terry Wilson (R) and Kyle Biedermann (R) District 26 - Jacey Jetton (R) and Phil Stephenson (R) District 38 - Alex Dominguez (D) and Eddie Lucio III (D) District 60 - Glenn Rogers (R) and Phil King (R) District 63 - Tan Parker (R) and Michelle Beckley (D) District 79 - Claudia Ordaz Perez (D) and Art Fierro (D) District 108 - Morgan Meyer (R) and John Turner (D)
Retirements 25 incumbents, including 10 Democrats and 15 Republicans, retired, 10 of whom sought other office.
District 9: Chris Paddie (R) retired. District 13: Ben Leman (R) retired. District 17: John Cyrier (R) retired. District 19: James White (R) retired to run for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. District 22: Joe Deshotel (D) retired. District 23: Mayes Middleton (R) retired to run for Texas State Senate. District 37: Alex Dominguez (D) retired to run for Texas State Senate. District 38: Eddie Lucio III (D) retired early on January 31, 2022, causing a special election. District 50: Celia Israel (D) retired to run for mayor of Austin. District 51: Eddie Rodriguez (D) retired to run for US House of Representatives in District 35. District 61: Phil King (R) retired to run for Texas State Senate. District 63: Tan Parker (R) retired to run for Texas State Senate. District 65: Michelle Beckley (D) retired to run for Texas lieutenant governor. District 70: Scott Sanford (R) retired. District 73: Kyle Biedermann (R) retired. District 84: John Frullo (R) retired. District 92: Jeff Cason (R) retired. District 93: Matt Krause (R) retired to run for Tarrant County District Attorney. District 100: Jasmine Crockett (D) retired to run for the US House of Representatives in District 30. District 114: John Turner (D) retired. District 122: Lyle Larson (R) retired. District 124: Ina Minjarez (D) retired to run for Bexar County Commissioners Court Judge. District 127: Dan Huberty (R) retired. District 133: Jim Murphy (R) retired. District 147: Garnet Coleman (D) retired early on February 28, 2022.
Special elections District 10: Jake Ellzey (R) was elected for the Texas's 6th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives in a special election. A special election to fill his seat in the Texas House of Representatives was held on August 31, 2021. No candidate received 50% of the vote, so the top-two winners, Brian Harrison and former state Rep. John Wray, advanced to a runoff held on September 28. Harrison won the runoff and was sworn in on October 12, 2021.
District 68: Drew Springer (R) was elected for the District 30 of the Senate in a special election. A special election for the district was held on January 23, 2021. No candidate received 50% of the votes to win the election, so a runoff election was held to determine a winner of the top two candidates of the January election, Craig Carter and David Spiller. Spiller won the election on February 23, and was sworn in on March 9, 2021.
District 118: Leo Pacheco (D) resigned to teach public administration at San Antonio College. A special election for the district was held on September 29, 2021. No candidate received 50% of the votes to win the election, so a runoff election will be held to determine a winner of the top two candidates of the September election, John Lujan and Frank Ramirez. Lujan narrowly won the runoff on November 2, 2021, flipping the district which Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden had won by 14 percentage points in 2020.
District 38: Eddie Lucio III (D) announced he would not seek re-election in 2022, citing personal reasons. On January 31, 2022, he resigned from his seat early. A special election to fill the seat for the remainder of Lucio's term was held on May 7, 2022. Because the filing deadline passed on December 13, 2021, the winner of the special election, Erin Gamez, would not have been able to run for a full term unless she had already filed for the general election.
Incumbents defeated In primaries Democrats District 79: Art Fierro lost renomination to fellow incumbent Claudia Ordaz Perez in a redistricting race.
Republicans District 85: Phil Stephenson lost renomination to Stan Kitzman.
Predictions Redistricting greatly reduced the number of competitive seats in the state, making it almost certain that the chamber would remain in Republican hands.
Statewide SourceRankingAs of Sabato's Crystal Ball May 19, 2022CNalysisNov. 7, 2022
Competitive districts DistrictIncumbent2020 Pres.CNalysisResult35thOscar Longoria57.38% D64.18% D37thAlex Dominguez50.56% D51.83% R41stRobert Guerra55.59% D 56.97% D70th No Incumbent54.29% D 50.73% D148thPenny Morales Shaw57.17% D 55.52% D
Results Statewide + Summary of the November 8, 2022 Texas House of Representatives election resultsParty Candidates Votes % Seats +/– % Republican 121 2,612,097 51.69% 86 1 57.33% Democratic 109 2,308,570 45.68% 64 1 42.67% Libertarian 23 121,804 2.41% 0 – 0% Independent 2 11,069 0.22% 0 – 0%Total 155 5,053,540 100.00% 150 –
Close races Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:
Results by district