The entire list of candidates for the Federal and State races are in and are the most current listed by the Lamar County Elections Administrator and the Texas Secretary of State.
This list is with the addition of two Write-In candidates as the deadline was August 22nd to be added to the ballot.
In addition to the General Election, the Governor has ordered a Constitutional Amendment Election. It is just one proposition on the end of the ballot that reads:
“Prop 1 Use and dedication of money transferred to the state highway fund”
IN FAVOR or AGAINST
| SEAT | REPUBLICAN | DEMOCRAT | LIBERTARIAN | GREEN |
| FEDERAL ELECTION POSITIONS | ||||
| US Senator | John Cornyn
(Incumbent) |
David M. Alameel | Rebecca Paddock | Emily “Spiceybrown” Sanchez |
| + Write-In Candidate for US Senator: Mohammed Tahiro | ||||
| US Representative
District 4 |
John Ratcliffe
(Incumbent) |
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| STATE ELECTION POSITIONS | ||||
| Governor | Greg Abbott
(Currently the Attorney General) |
Wendy R. Davis
(Currently TX State Senator) |
Kathie Glass | Brandon Parmer |
| + Write-In Candidate for Governor: Sarah M. Pavitt | ||||
| Lieutenant Governor | Dan Patrick | Leticia Van de Putte | Robert D. Butler | Chandrakantha Courtney |
| Attorney General | Ken Paxton | Sam Houston | Jamie Balagia | Jamar Osborne |
| Comptroller of Public Accounts | Glenn Hegar | Mike Collier | Ben Sanders | Deb Shafto |
| Commissioner of the General Land Office | George P. Bush | John Cook | Justin Knight | Valerie Alessi |
| Commissioner of Agriculture | Sid Miller | Jim Hogan | David (Rocky) Palmquist | Kenneth Kendrick |
| Railroad Commissioner | Ryan Sitton | Steve Brown | Mark A. Miller | Martina Salinas |
| Chief Justice,
Supreme Court |
Nathan Hecht
(Currently Justice, Supreme Court Place 6) |
William Moody | Tom Oxford | |
| Justice, Supreme Court
Place 6 – Unexpired Term |
Jeff Brown | Lawrence Edward Meyers
(Currently Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 2 until 2016) |
Mark Ash | |
| Justice, Supreme Court
Place 7 |
Jeff Boyd
(Incumbent) |
Gina Benavides | Don Fulton | Charles R. Waterbury |
| Justice, Supreme Court
Place 8 |
Phil Johnson
(Incumbent) |
RS Roberto Koelsch | Jim Chisolm | |
| Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Place 3 |
Bert Richardson | John Granberg | Mark W. Bennet | |
| Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Place 4 |
Kevin Patrick Yeary | Quanah Parker | Judith Sanders-Castro | |
| Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals
Place 9 |
David Newell | William Bryan Strange III | George Altgelt | |
| State Representative District 1 | Gary VanDeaver | |||
| Justice, 6th Court of Appeals District,
Place 3 |
Ralph K. Burgess | |||
+ Write-In Candidates are not party affiliated.
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