Texas Senate, District 22

District 22 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves Bosque, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Hill, Hood, Johnson, McLennan, Navarro and Somervell counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The current Senator from District 22 is Republican Brian Birdwell of Granbury, the winner of a 2010 special election to choose a successor to Republican Kip Averitt, who resigned because of health issues even after having been renominated in the March 2 primary election.

Election history

Election history of District 22 from 1992.^[1]

Most recent election

2006

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 22[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Kip Averitt (Incumbent)	112,765	80.60	+13.22
	Libertarian	Phil Smart	27,141	19.40	+19.40
Majority			85,624	61.20	+26.45
Turnout			139,906		-11.38
	Republican hold

Previous elections

2002

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 22[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Kip Averitt	106,371	67.38	-32.62
	Democratic	Richard “Richie” J. Renschler, Jr.	51,506	32.62	+32.62
Majority			54,865	34.75	-65.25
Turnout			157,877		+88.10
	Republican hold

Republican primary, 2002: Senate District 22[4]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
✓	Kip Averitt	20,074	57.63
	Ed Harrison	14,758	42.37
Majority		5,316	15.26
Turnout		34,832

1998

Texas general election, 1998: Senate District 22[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	David Sibley (Incumbent)	83,933	100.00	+41.34
Majority			83,933	100.00	+82.68
Turnout			83,933		-40.73
	Republican hold

1994

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 22[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Margaret Ross Messina	58,544	41.34	+1.64
	Republican	David Sibley (Incumbent)[7]	83,064	58.66	-1.64
Majority			24,520	17.32	-3.28
Turnout			141,608		-38.97
	Republican hold

1992

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 22[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Bob Glasgow (Incumbent)	92,113	39.70
	Republican	Jane Nelson	139,901	60.30
Majority			47,778	20.60
Turnout			232,014
	Republican gain from Democratic

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 22	Counties in District
3	Benjamin Rush Wallace	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Cherokee, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Harrison, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lamar, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Polk, Red River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Titus, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt.[9]
4	Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach	Bexar, Comal, Medina.
5	William Harrison “Howdy” Martin	Freestone, Henderson, Limestone, Navarro.
6
7
8	Francis Marion Martin
9	John T. Harcourt	Colorado, Fayette, Matagorda, Wharton.
10
11	Richard V. Cook
12	E. Thomas Broughton	Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Knox, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, Young.
13
14	William H. Trolinger[10] N. S. Craven	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Grayson, Hardeman, Knox, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger.
15	John W. Moore	Hill, Johnson, McLennan.
16
17	Lawrence Sullivan Ross
18	John A. Martin	Falls, McLennan.
19	Richard H. Harrison
20	Richard H. Harrison[11] Waller Saunders Baker
21	Richard H. Harrison
22	John H. Harrison
23	Leonidas Storey Lawhon	Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, Victoria, Wilson.
24
25	Edward D. Linn
26	Asbury Bascom Davidson
27
28		Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Live Oak, Refugio, Victoria, Wilson.
29
30	William O. Murray
31
32
33	William O. Murray John Heywood Bailey
34	John Heywood Bailey
35
36
37
38
39	Eugene Miller	Denton, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise.
40
41
42	H. Grady Woodruff
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44
45
46	Royston Lanning
47
48
49
50	Robert L. Proffer
51
52	Wayne W. Wagonseller
53		Callahan, Clay, Denton, Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Wise.
54
55	Floyd Francis Bradshaw
56	Floyd Francis Bradshaw Robert W. Baker
57	Robert W. Baker Tom Creighton
58	Tom Creighton
59
60		All of Clay, Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Wise. Portion of Tarrant.
61
62
63		All of Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Hill, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Stephens, Wise, Young. Portion of Tarrant.
64
65		Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Hill, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Stephens, Wise, Young.
66
67	Bob Glasgow
68		All of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Stephens, Wise. Portions of Denton, Tarrant.
69
70
71
72
73	Jane Nelson	All of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Wise. Portions of Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant.
74	David Sibley	All of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Wise. Portions of Denton, Johnson, McLennan, Parker, Tarrant.
75
76
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78	Kip Averitt	Bosque, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Hill, Hood, Johnson, McLennan, Navarro, Somervell.
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References

1. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.
2. "2006 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
3. "2002 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
4. "2002 Republican Party Primary Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
5. "1998 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
6. "1994 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
7. Sibley was the District 9 incumbent prior to the 1994 Senate redistricting.
8. "1992 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved 2007-01-04.
9. For the Third Texas Legislature only, District 22 was at-large district that covered most of east and northeast Texas. Citizens of all of these counties were also represented by another senator.
10. Craven sworn in on 25 January 1875 for Trolinger who had resigned.
11. Harrison resigned 20 April 1887. Baker elected in special election 4 June 1887, sworn in 16 April 1888