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11 Texas State Senate seats up for re-election – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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11 Texas State Senate seats up for re-election – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Voting on Election Day – What you need to know

Results will be available on this page on election night.

Texans will decide 11 Senate races on Tuesday. Four other races were held unopposed.

The Texas Senate is made up of 31 senators, each representing a district. Of the 31 seats, only 15 are up for election this year. Nine of those seats are incumbent senators being challenged in their re-election race, five are Democratic incumbent senators running unopposed and one is a race to fill the seat vacated by Texas Sen. Drew Springer (R-Muenster, D.C. 30).

Eleven districts are represented in North Texas: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 22, 23 and 30. View the Senate map here. The senators elected Tuesday will take office at the start of the 89th regular session on January 14, 2025.

A list of Senate races for November 5, 2024 is below.

District 6: Incumbent Senator Carol Alvarado (D) against Martha Fierro (R)

District 7: Outgoing senator Paul Bettencourt (right) against Michelle Gwinn (right)

District 8: Incumbent Senator Angela Paxton (R) versus Rachel Mello (R)

District 10: Outgoing Senator Phil King (R) versus Andy Morris (R)

District 12: Incumbent Senator Tan Parker (R) against Stephanie Draper (R)

District 14: Incumbent Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D), unopposed

District 15: Incumbent Senator Molly Cook (D) against Joseph L. Trahan (R)

District 16: Incumbent Senator Nathan Johnson (D), unopposed

District 17: Incumbent Senator Joan Huffman (R) versus Kathy Cheng (R)

District 20: Incumbent Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa (D), unopposed

District 23: Incumbent Sen. Royce West (D), unopposed

District 25: Incumbent Senator Donna Campbell (R) versus Merrie Fox (R)

District 27: Incumbent Sen. Morgan LaMantia (D) against Adam Hinojosa (R) and Robin Lee Vargas (G)

District 29: Incumbent Senator Cesar J. Blanco (D), unopposed

District 30: Brent Hagenbunch (right) vs. Dale Frey (right)