The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Ted Brown (Libertarian), Avery Ayers (write-in), Bradford Hall (write-in), Zul Mohamed (write-in) and Jade Simmons (Independent, write-in).
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. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. A candidate marked write-in is certified to run and their votes count; their name is not printed on the ballot. Not a prediction.
The seat
John Cornyn
Republican · Holds the seat now
First took office 2002 · Age 74
Not on the November ballot
How to vote in Texas
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
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How they won the primary
The primary · 2,319,187 votes
- James Talarico Won: 52.4% 1,216,412
- Jasmine Crockett: 46.2% 1,071,900
- Ahmad Hassan: 1.3% 30,875
Primary source: Texas Secretary of State official Democratic primary results.
First round · 2,166,910 votes
- John Cornyn: 42.0% 910,382
- Ken Paxton: 40.5% 878,564
- Wesley Hunt: 13.5% 293,250
- Sara Canady: 1.2% 26,355
- Anna Bender: 1.1% 24,167
3 more candidates in the full results at the source named below.
The runoff · 1,391,634 votes
- Ken Paxton Won: 63.8% 888,196
- John Cornyn: 36.2% 503,438
Primary source: Texas Secretary of State official Republican primary results. Runoff source: Texas Secretary of State official Republican primary-runoff 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
- $105M
- Outside money
- $317M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $30.4M of the race's $317M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other 5 names on this ballot.
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.
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
30 filed- John CornynRepublican$14M
- Colin AllredDemocrat$7.6M
- Jasmine CrockettDemocrat$11M
- Wesley HuntRepublican$2.1M
- John AdefopeRepublican-
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.
How this seat voted last time
R+10 in 2020
- John Cornyn Won: 53.5%
- Mary "MJ" Hegar: 43.9%
11,144,040 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.6%. 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 October 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 each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.