Texas Senate, District 18

District 18 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Waller, Washington and Wharton counties and a western portion of Fort Bend County in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 18 is Republican Lois W. Kolkhorst, who won the seat in a special election in December 2014 after incumbent Republican Glenn Hegar successfully ran for and won Texas State Comptroller of Public Accounts.

Election history

Election history of District 18 from 1992.^[1]

Most recent elections

2006

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 18[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Glenn Hegar	110,512	78.92	+33.80
	Libertarian	Roy O. Wright, II	29,511	21.08	+19.51
Majority			81,001	57.85	+49.67
Turnout			140,023		-12.60
	Republican gain from Democratic

Republican primary, 2006: Senate District 18[3]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
	Gary Gates	12,933	35.63
✓	Glenn Hegar	19,934	54.92
	David Stall	3,428	9.44
Majority		7,001	19.29
Turnout		36,295

Previous elections

2002

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 18[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Lester Phipps	72,296	45.13	+4.57
	Democratic	Ken Armbrister (Incumbent)	85,401	53.31	-6.13
	Libertarian	Horace Henley	2,508	1.57	+1.57
Majority			13,105	8.18	-10.70
Turnout			160,205		+11.65
	Democratic hold

Republican primary, 2002: Senate District 18[5]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
✓	Lester Phipps	11,774	50.13
	Michael Rozell	11,713	49.87
Majority		61	0.26
Turnout		23,487

1998

Texas general election, 1998: Senate District 18[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Reese Turner	58,195	40.56	+40.56
	Democratic	Ken Armbrister (Incumbent)	85,291	59.44	-40.56
Majority			27,096	18.88	-81.12
Turnout			143,486		+46.32
	Democratic hold

1994

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 18[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ken Armbrister (Incumbent)	98,066	100.00	+40.34
Majority			98,066	100.00	+80.68
Turnout			98,066		-48.56
	Democratic hold

1992

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 18[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Ken Armbrister (Incumbent)	113,729	59.66
	Republican	Carolyn McDaniel	76,905	40.34
Majority			6,824	19.32
Turnout			190,634
	Democratic hold

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 18	Counties in District
1	José Antonio Navarro	Bexar.
2		Bexar, Comal.
3	Alexander H. Phillips	Calhoun, DeWitt, Gonzales, Jackson, Matagorda, Victoria.
4	Franklin H. Merriman Mark M. Potter	Brazoria, Galveston.
5	Cornelius McAnelly	Harris.
6	Edward A. Palmer
7	Benjamin F. Tankersly Hiram George Runnels
8	Abram Morris Gentry
9	John W. Durant	Brazos, Burleson, Leon, Madison, Robertson.
10
11	James B. Boyd
12	Phidello W. Hall	Freestone, Leon, Robertson.
13
14	William D. Wood	Brazos, Leon, Robertson.
15	John Thomas Brady	Harris, Montgomery.
16	Charles Stewart
17
18	William O. Davis	Cooke, Grayson.
19
20	Elbridge G. Douglass
21	Elbridge G. Douglass John W. Finlay
22	Calhoun L. Potter
23	Friench Simpson	Colorado, Fayette, Lavaca.
24
25	Abnus B. Kerr
26
27	David A. Paulus
28		Austin, Colorado, Fayette, Lavaca.
29
30
31
32
33	David A. Paulus Isaac E. Clark
34	Isaac E. Clark
35
36
37
38
39	John Heywood Bailey	Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Live Oak, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria, Wilson.
40
41	James W. Stevenson
42
43	Elmo J. Blackert
44
45	Morris Roberts
46
47	Fred Mauritz
48
49
50
51	John Junior Bell
52
53	John Junior Bell William S. Fly	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria.
54	William S. Fly
55
56
57	William Neff "Bill" Patman
58
59
60		Aransas, Austin, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, San Patricio, Victoria, Washington, Wharton.
61
62
63		Bastrop, Bell, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Lee, Milam, Victoria, Williamson.
64
65
66
67	John T. Wilson
68	John Sharp	All of Aransas, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Lee, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria. Portions of Brazoria, Fort Bend, Williamson.
69
70	Ken Armbrister
71
72
73		All of Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Wharton. Portions of Fort Bend, Hays.
74		All of Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Wharton. Portions of Fort Bend, Guadalupe, Hays.
75
76
77
78		All of Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Waller, Washington, Wharton. Portion of Fort Bend.
79
80	Glenn Hegar
81

References

1. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.
2. "2006 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
3. "2006 Republican Party Primary Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
4. "2002 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
5. "2002 Republican Party Primary Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
6. "1998 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
7. "1994 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
8. "1992 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.