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The 2006 Texas Legislature election was held on Tuesday, 7 November 2006, in the U.S. state of Texas. The Texas Legislature election was conducted as a part of the Texas general election, 2006, which also included the Texas United States Senate election, 2006, the Texas United States House elections, 2006, and the Texas gubernatorial election, 2006.
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Successful candidates served in the Eightieth Texas Legislature, which convened 9 January 2007 at the capitol in Austin.
Texas Senate
Fifteen of the sixteen elections for the Texas Senate were contested to some extent. In the District 3 race, Robert Nichols won his Republican primary and was unopposed in the fall election.
Five Senators chose to not run or were defeated in their local primary.
Senate race summary
District 1
District 2
District 3 Race uncontested after Nichols’ win in the Republican primary.
District 5
District 7
District 8
District 12
District 13
District 14
District 15
District 17
District 18
District 19
Incumbent Frank Madla was ousted by Uresti in contentious Democratic primary race. Madla was the only incumbent senator to lose a primary race in 2006.
District 22
District 25
District 29
This was considered by some to be an extremely important Texas Senate election race. Thought to potentially add to the competitiveness of this Senate race was District 29's historically low-voter turnout and Republican "Dee" Margo's close connections to President George W. Bush via First Lady Laura Bush's close friendship to "Dee" Margo's spouse, El Pasoan Adair Margo. As it turned out, Shapleigh won reelection in a race that was not that close.
House of Representatives
In the Texas House of Representatives, 117 of the 150 seats were contested in the November 2006 election. Thirty-two races were uncontested after the primary elections on 7 March 2006, while the remaining two were determined in the primary runoffs on 11 April 2006. One previously uncontested race came back into play with the withdrawal of the incumbent, thus allowing a new nomination process by both major parties.
There will be at least 21 new members of the House of Representatives. Two Democratic and five Republican incumbents were defeated in the primaries. These current representatives will not be back: