2010 Texas Senate election

2010 Texas Senate election

← 2008 November 4, 2010 2012 →

16 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Party Republican Democratic Libertarian
Seats before 19 12 0
Seats won 19 12 0
Seat change Steady Steady Steady
Popular vote 1,839,653 591,423 172,017
Percentage 70.65% 22.71% 6.61%
Swing Increase16.98% Decrease17.43% Increase 0.42%

Senate results by district
     Republican hold      Democratic hold
     No election

President Pro Tempore before election


Republican

Elected President Pro Tempore


Republican

The 2010 Texas Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state senators in 16 State Senate districts. The winners of this election served in the 82nd Texas Legislature. State senators typically serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate, but all Senators come up for election in the cycles following each decennial redistricting. As such, all of the seats up for this election were for two-year terms, with senators up for re-election in the following 2012 Texas State Senate elections.

Following the 2008 Texas Senate election, the Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate with nineteen members to the Democrats' twelve.

To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to gain four seats. In the end, no seats changed hands.


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