The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Certified list: Texas Secretary of State; Certified List of Write-In Candidates (Federal, State, and District), including four U.S. Senate write-ins; Independent Candidate Filings for 2026, with each applicant's outcome. Not a prediction.
The seat
John Carter
Republican · Holds the seat now
First took office 2003 · Age 84
Discloses no individual stock trades.
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
How to vote in Texas
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 30 days before the election.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 55,348 votes
- Justin Early Won: 57.6% 31,881
- Stuart Whitlow: 42.4% 23,467
Primary source: Texas Secretary of State official Democratic primary results.
The primary · 76,748 votes
- John Carter Won: 59.7% 45,834
- Valentina Gomez: 10.9% 8,401
- Abhiram Garapati: 6.6% 5,036
- Steve Dowell: 6.2% 4,729
- Raymond Hamden: 5.9% 4,530
5 more candidates in the full results at the source named below.
Primary source: Texas Secretary of State official Republican primary results.
Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $2.3M
- Outside money
- $64K
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.
Where each candidate's money comes from
Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.
Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: John Carter $530K.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Not on the November ballot
12 filed- David BerryRepublican$37K
- Steve DowellRepublican$51K
- Abhiram GarapatiRepublican$55K
- Valentina GomezRepublican$123K
- Raymond HamdenRepublican$146K
Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.
The district
Census context- People
- 844K
- Median household income
- $96K
- Unemployment
- 4.3%
- Living below the poverty line
- 8.6%
- Without health insurance
- 11.6%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate. These figures describe the district as drawn before its lines changed for 2026; estimates for the new lines are not yet published.
How this seat voted last time
R+29 in 2024
- John Carter Won: 64.4%
- Stuart Whitlow: 35.6%
355,557 votes for candidates. The district's lines have changed since this result. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.