- Source: 2022 Texas Attorney General election
The 2022 Texas Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Texas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton won re-election to his third term. Paxton won 233 counties and won the popular vote by a margin of 9.7%, underperforming Governor Greg Abbott's concurrent bid for re-election by 1.1%.
Republican primary
= Candidates
=Nominee
Ken Paxton, incumbent attorney general
Eliminated in runoff
George P. Bush, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office
Eliminated in primary
Louie Gohmert, U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district (declined to endorse in runoff)
Eva Guzman, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (2009–2021)
Withdrawn
Matt Krause, state representative from the 93rd district (running for Tarrant County district attorney; endorsed Gohmert)
= Endorsements
== First round
=Polling
= Graphical summary =
Results
Gohmert performed best in Texas's 1st congressional district, where he served as a US representative at the time; Guzman performed best in urban Travis, Harris, and Dallas counties; Bush performed best in the Rio Grande Valley; and Paxton performed best in the Texas Panhandle, South Plains, and Southeast Texas.
= Runoff
=Polling
Results
Democratic primary
= Candidates
=Nominee
Rochelle Mercedes Garza, former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
Eliminated in runoff
Joe Jaworski, attorney, mediator, former mayor of Galveston, and grandson of former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Leon Jaworski
Eliminated in primary
Mike Fields, attorney and former judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 14 (endorsed Garza in runoff)
Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney (endorsed Garza in runoff)
S. T-Bone Raynor, attorney
Declined
Justin Nelson, nominee for Texas Attorney General in 2018
= Endorsements
== First round
=Polling
= Graphical summary =
Results
= Runoff
=Polling
Results
Libertarian convention
= Declared
=Mark Ash, attorney and candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas in 2020
General election
On October 27, 2022, Libertarian nominee Mark Ash published an op-ed in The Amarillo Pioneer in which he blasted Ken Paxton as "the poster child for corruption and authoritarianism" and recommended that if voters were "reluctant to throw away their votes on a third-party candidate," they should vote for Democratic nominee Rochelle Garza instead. The Texas Democratic Party put out a statement claiming that Ash had endorsed Garza, but Ash clarified that he was not endorsing her, nor would he be dropping out of the race.
= Predictions
== Polling
=Graphical summary
= Results
=By congressional district
Paxton won 25 of 38 congressional districts.
Notes
Partisan clients
See also
2022 United States attorney general elections
References
External links
Official campaign websites
Rochelle Garza (D) for Attorney General
Ken Paxton (R) for Attorney General
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