The Green Papers: Texas 2005 Off Year Elections
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:34(6.32% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:32(7.36% of 435)
2000 Census:20,903,994 (7.41% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):14,850,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):10,267,639
Capital:Austin
 

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Texas State and Local Government

           
U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 109th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1   Republican   Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
• First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1 May 1993- and necessary subsequent Runoff: 5 June 1993 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (Democrat): 20 January 1993- which Robert Krueger had been appointed by Governor Ann W. Richards (Democrat) to fill, 21 January 1993]; elected to full term: 1994; re-elected 2000
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Class 2   Republican   Senator John Cornyn
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: None, All Governors
    Republican   Governor Rick Perry
• Lt. Gov. Rick Perry became Governor 21 December 2000 when George W. Bush resigned to take the office of President of the United States. First elected to a full term: 2002
• Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Republican   Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
109th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
21 Republican (21 Undetermined);
11 Democratic (11 Undetermined)
CD 1   Republican   Congressman Louis Gohmert
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 2   Republican   Congressman Ted Poe
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 3   Republican   Congressman Sam Johnson
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 4   Republican   Congressman Ralph Hall
• First elected (as a Democrat) 1980; re-elected: 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002; filed to run for re-election as a Republican: 2 January 2004. Switched party affiliation to Republican 5 January 2004.
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 5   Republican   Congressman Jeb Hensarling
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 6   Republican   Congressman Joe Barton
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 7   Republican   Congressman John Culberson
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 8   Republican   Congressman Kevin Brady
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 9   Democratic   Congressman Al Green
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 10   Republican   Congressman Michael T. McCaul
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 11   Republican   Congressman Mike Conaway
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 12   Republican   Congressman Kay Granger
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 13   Republican   Congressman Mac Thornberry
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 14   Republican   Congressman Ron Paul
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 15   Democratic   Congressman Ruben Hinojosa
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 16   Democratic   Congressman Silvestre Reyes
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 17   Democratic   Congressman Chet Edwards
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 18   Democratic   Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 19   Republican   Congressman Randy Neugebauer
• First elected in a special election: 3 June 2003
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 20   Democratic   Congressman Charles A. Gonzalez
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 21   Republican   Congressman Lamar Smith
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 22   Republican   Congressman Tom DeLay
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
 

Wednesday 28 September 2005: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Republican, Texas CD 22) was indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme by a Texas grand jury.

"In accordance with the rules of the House Republican Conference, I will temporarily step aside as floor leader in order to win exoneration from these baseless charges."

Congressman Roy Blunt (Republican, Missouri CD 7), the majority Whip, will be the interim Leader.

CD 23   Republican   Congressman Henry Bonilla
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 24   Republican   Congressman Kenny Marchant
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 25   Democratic   Congressman Lloyd Doggett
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 26   Republican   Congressman Michael C. Burgess
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 27   Democratic   Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 28   Democratic   Congressman Henry Cuellar
• First elected: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 29   Democratic   Congressman Gene Green
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 30   Democratic   Congressman Eddie Bernice Johnson
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 31   Republican   Congressman John R. Carter
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
CD 32   Republican   Congressman Pete Sessions
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Republican   Attorney General Greg Abbott
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Comptroller of Public Accounts  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Republican   Comptroller of Public Accounts Carole Keeton Strayhorn
• First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Commissioner of Agriculture  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Republican   Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs
• First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Commissioner of General Land Office  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006
    Republican   General Land Office Commissioner Jerry Patterson
• First elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
Railroad Commissioner 1  6 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2010
    Republican   Railroad Commissioner Victor G. Carrillo
• First appointed 2003 (to fill the unexpired term of Tony Garza); first elected to a full term: 2004
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Railroad Commissioner 2  6 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2006
    Republican   Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth A. Jones
• Appointed: February 2005
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
• Elizabeth A. Jones was appointed 9 February 2005 to fill Charles R. Matthews' vacant seat. When a Commissioner is appointed by the Governor to fill an unexpired term, the appointee serves until the next General Election at which time the appointee may run for the remainder of the unexpired term. Mr. Matthews served from 3 January 1995 to 31 January 2005 and was first elected in 1994 then re-elected in 2000.
Railroad Commissioner 3  6 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2008
    Republican   Railroad Commissioner Michael L. Williams
• First appointed: 1998; First elected: 2000 (to fill the unexpired term of Carole Keeton Rylander); re-elected: 2002
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008
Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.
 • Constitution
 • Democratic
 • Green
 • Libertarian
 • Not readily classifiable
 • Reform
 • Republican
 • Socialist Party USA
2002-2010 Congressional Districts  2002-2010 CDs

Texas has 254 counties and 32 congressional districts: 231 counties are each wholly within a given congressional district; 23 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.

UNDIVIDED COUNTIES: (those wholly within one Congressional District):

  • CD # 1: Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Harrison, Hopkins, Lamar, Marion, Morris, Panola, Red River, Rusk, Shelby, Titus, Upshur and Wood.
  • CD # 2: Angelina, Cherokee, Grimes, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Trinity, Tyler and Walker.
  • CD # 4: Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Gregg, Rains, Rockwall, Smith and Van Zandt.
  • CD # 5: Anderson, Falls, Freestone, Henderson, Leon, Limestone, Madison and Robertson.
  • CD # 6: Ellis, Hill, Johnson and Navarro.
  • CD # 9: Chambers, Galveston and Jefferson.
  • CD # 11: Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Milam, Mills and San Saba.
  • CD # 12: Parker.
  • CD # 13: Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Floyd, Foard, Gray, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, King, Knox, Lipscomb, Montague, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler, Wichita and Wilbarger.
  • CD # 14: Aransas, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Wharton and Wilson.
  • CD # 15: Bee, Brooks, Goliad, Live Oak and San Patricio.
  • CD # 17: Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Dawson, Eastland, Erath, Fisher, Glasscock, Haskell, Hood, Irion, Jack, Jones, Kent, McCulloch, Mitchell, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Runnels, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackleford, Somervell, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Taylor, Throckmorton, Tom Green and Young.
  • CD # 19: Andrews, Bailey, Cochran, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Hockley, Howard, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Midland, Parmer, Terry, Ward, Winkler andYoakum.
  • CD # 21: Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Llano, Mason and Menard.
  • CD # 23: Brewster, Crockett, Culberson, Dimmit, Edwards, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Real, Reeves, Sutton, Terrell, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb and Zavala.
  • CD # 26: Denton.
  • CD # 27: Cameron, Kenedy and Willacy.
  • CD # 28: Atascosa, Duval, Frio, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, La Salle, McMullen, Starr and Zapata.
  • CD # 31: Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Lee, Waller and Washington.

DIVIDED COUNTIES (those split between more than one Congressional District):

  • Bastrop: CDs 14 & 31
  • Bexar: CDs 20, 21, 23 & 28 [CD # 20 is wholly within Bexar County]
  • Brazoria: CDs 14 & 22
  • Collin: 3, 4 & 26
  • Dallas: CDs 3, 5, 24, 30 & 32 [CDs # 30 & # 32 are wholly within Dallas County]
  • El Paso: CDs 16 & 23 [CD # 16 is wholly within El Paso County]
  • Fort Bend: CDs 22 & 25
  • Garza: CDs 13 & 17
  • Harris: CDs 7, 8, 9, 18, 22, 25, 29 & 31 [CDs # 7, #18 & # 29 are wholly within Harris County]
  • Hays: CDs 14 & 21
  • Hidalgo: CDs 15 & 28
  • Hunt: CDs 1 & 4
  • Kaufman: CDs 4 & 5
  • Kleberg: CDs 15 & 27
  • Lamb: CDs 13 & 19
  • McLennan: CDs 5 & 11
  • Montgomery: CDs 2 & 8
  • Nacogdoches: CDs 1 & 2
  • Nueces: CDs 15 & 27
  • Tarrant: CDs 6, 12, 24 & 26
  • Travis: CDs 10 & 21 [CD # 10 is wholly within Travis County]
  • Williamson: CDs 11 & 31
  • Wise: CDs 17 & 26
 

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