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The 2020 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member to the United States Senate to represent the State of Texas, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent ...
^ a b c Candidate withdrew after early voting started, but before the date of the election. ^ a b c Candidate withdrew shortly before the primary when absentee voting had already begun.
The Texas Presidential Primary was held on March 4. It was an open primary, permitting participants to vote for candidates in any one party, regardless of voters' party affiliations. Participants were then considered as restricted to that party for the purpose of calculations regarding primaries and runoff elections for the next two years. The Primary itself was funded by the Texas State ...
Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision which struck down a 1923 Texas law forbidding blacks from voting in the Texas Democratic Party primary. [1] Due to the limited amount of Republican Party activity in Texas at the time following the suppression of black voting through poll taxes, the Democratic Party primary was essentially the only competitive ...
Elections were held in Texas on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Its primaries were held on March 3, 2020, with runoffs taking place on July 14. [1] In addition to the U.S. presidential race, Texas voters elected the Class II U.S. senator from Texas, one of three members of the Texas Railroad Commission, eight of 15 members of the Texas Board of Education, all of its seats to the House of ...
James Richard Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who served as the 14th United States secretary of energy from 2017 to 2019 during the first Trump administration. He previously served as the 47th governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections. Born into a family of ...
The 2025 San Antonio mayoral election was held on May 3, 2025, to elect the next mayor of San Antonio, Texas. Because no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, the two highest-placing candidates advanced to a runoff election on June 7. Municipal elections in Texas are officially nonpartisan. Due to the passage of Proposition F in 2024, the winner will receive a four-year term, as term ...
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520. While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18] This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history. [18] Between 1528 and 1535, four survivors of ...