2004 Texas Senate election

none September 2023 2004 Texas Senate election 36.01% Texas Democratic Party 12 3 12 901,490 2.36% TxSen2004Results.svg 300px Senate results by district#F48882 Republican hold #92C5DE Democratic hold#D3D3D3 No election President Pro Tempore Republican Republican 5.73% Texas legislative 2002 Texas Senate election 2002 2006 Texas Senate election 2006 15 of the 31 seats in the Texas Senate 16 November 2, 2004 63.50% Republican Party of Texas 19 19 1,589,684 no The 2004 Texas Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state senators in 15 State Senate districts. All of the seats up for this election were for two-year terms, with senators up for re-election in the 2008 elections. The winners of this election served in the 79th Texas Legislature. Following the 2002 elections, the Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate, with nineteen members to the Democrats' twelve. To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to gain four seats. In the end, no seats changed hands. Background The Republican Party had held the state senate since the 1996 elections. In 2002, Republicans gained control of the Texas House of Representatives, giving them unified control of the state's government.Halbfinger David M. Yardley Jim 2002-11-07 THE 2002 ELECTIONS: THE SOUTH; Vote Solidifies Shift of South To the G.O.P. en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/us/the-2002-elections-the-south-vote-solidifies-shift-of-south-to-the-gop.html 2023-02-08 0362-4331 This led to the 2003 Texas redistricting, where Republicans redrew the state's congressional districts which had been implemented by federal courts for the 2002 elections.McKee Seth Teigen Jeremy Turgeon Mathieu June 2006 The Partisan Impact of Congressional Redistricting: The Case of Texas, 2001-2003 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42956125 Social Science Quarterly 87 2 308–317 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2006.2006.00382.x 42956125 subscription During that session, eleven members of the Texas Senate left the state to break quorum in an attempt to prevent the plan from passing.Alvarez Elizabeth Cruce 2004 Texas Almanac, 2004-2005 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth162511/m1/398/ 2023-02-08 The Portal to Texas History 398 English This strategy eventually failed due to the defection of Senator John Whitmire of Houston.Toobin Jeffrey February 26, 2006 Drawing the Line - Will Tom DeLay's redistricting in Texas cost him his seat? The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/03/06/drawing-the-line-3 February 7, 2023 Predictions SourceRankingAs of RothenbergJacobson Louis October 1, 2004 Handicapping the State Legislatures: A 50-State Preview https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/EH6LU0 The Rothenberg Political Report 7–10 Harvard Dataverse | Safe R October 1, 2004 Overview +Summary of the November 2, 2004 Texas Senate election resultsFile:Texas_State_Senate_2012.svgPartyCandidatesVotesSeatsNo. Number %BeforeUpWonAfter+/–Republican101,589,68463.50199919Democratic9901,49036.01126612Libertarian211,9030.480000Write-in11600.010000Total2,503,243100.0031151531Source:Office of the Secretary of State 2004 General Election https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist114_state.htm 2023-02-08 elections.sos.state.tx.us Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Republican Republican Party (United States) 63.50 Democratic Democratic Party (United States) 36.01 Libertarian Libertarian Party (United States) 0.48 Write-in Write-in 0.01 Senate seats won #ddd 600px 410px Republican Republican Party (United States) 60.00 Democratic Democratic Party (United States) 40.00 Summary of results by state senate district +DistrictDemocraticRepublicanOthersTotalResultVotes%Votes%Votes%Votes%District 4 - -176,464100.00% - -176,464100.00%Republican holdDistrict 675,31891.75% - -6,7748.25%82,092100.00%Democratic holdDistrict 9 - -143,501100.00% - -143,501100.00%Republican holdDistrict 10107,85340.75%156,83159.25% - -264,684100.00%Republican holdDistrict 11 - -177,554100.00% - -177,554100.00%Republican holdDistrict 16 - -142,542100.00% - -142,542100.00%Republican holdDistrict 20116,723100.00% - - - -116,723100.00%Democratic holdDistrict 21127,573100.00% - - - -127,573100.00%Democratic holdDistrict 23150,244100.00% - - - -150,244100.00%Democratic holdDistrict 24 - -189,778100.00% - -189,778100.00%Republican holdDistrict 26105,62557.10%74,07040.04%5,2952.86%184,990100.00%Democratic holdDistrict 2789,984100.00% - - - -89,984100.00%Democratic holdDistrict 28176,588100.00% - - - -176,588100.00%Republican holdDistrict 3081,61430.95%182,05769.05% - -263,671100.00%Republican holdDistrict 3146,55621.47%170,29978.53% - -216,855100.00%Republican holdTotal901,49036.01%1,589,68463.50%12,0690.48%2,503,243100.00%Source:Office of the Secretary of State Race Summary Report 2010 General Election https://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist154_state.htm 2021-12-30 elections.sos.state.tx.us Notes References Senate Texas Senate Category:Texas Senate elections