2000 Texas Senate election

The 2000 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 2002 elections. State senators typically serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate, but all Senators come up for election in the cycles following each decennial redistricting. The winners of this election served in the 77th Texas Legislature.

Background

The Republican Party had held the State Senate since the 1996 elections.

Results

Despite the highly contentious 2000 presidential election taking place at the same time, in which Republican governor George W. Bush won nearly 60% of the vote in Texas, Republicans failed to expand their narrow majority in the Texas Senate. Only one seat saw a new member elected, a seat Republicans held after one member retired. Republicans had heavily targeted Democrat David Cain, who represented an increasingly Republican-leaning district in and east of Dallas, but he won re-election by a larger than expected margin, maintaining the chamber's composition.