2022 Texas Attorney General election
The 2022 Texas Attorney General election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Attorney General of Texas. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton won re-election to his third term. Paxton won 233 counties and won the popular vote by a margin of 9.7%, underperforming Governor Greg Abbott's concurrent bid for re-election by 1.1%.
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
- Ken Paxton, incumbent attorney general
Eliminated in runoff
- George P. Bush, commissioner of the Texas General Land Office
Eliminated in primary
- Louie Gohmert, U.S. representative for
- Eva Guzman, former associate justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
Withdrawn
- Matt Krause, state representative from the 93rd district ''''
First round
Polling
Graphical summary
Results
Gohmert performed best in Texas's 1st congressional district, where he served as a U.S. representative at the time; Guzman performed best in urban Travis, Harris, and Dallas counties; Bush performed best in the Rio Grande Valley; and Paxton performed best in the Texas Panhandle, South Plains, and Southeast Texas.Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
- Rochelle Mercedes Garza, former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union
Eliminated in runoff
- Joe Jaworski, attorney, mediator, former mayor of Galveston, and grandson of former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Leon Jaworski
Eliminated in primary
- Mike Fields, attorney and former judge of the Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 14 '
- Lee Merritt, civil rights attorney '
- S. T-Bone Raynor, attorney
First round
Polling
Graphical summary
| Poll source | Date administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Mike Fields | Rochelle Garza | Joe Jaworski | Lee Merritt | Raynor | Other | Undecided |
| Emerson College | February 21–22, 2022 | 388 | ± 4.9% | 5% | 30% | 22% | 16% | 5% | – | 22% |
| UT Tyler | February 8–15, 2022 | 479 | ± 4.9% | 9% | 22% | 13% | 9% | 6% | – | 42% |
| YouGov/UT | January 28 – February 7, 2022 | 332 | ± 5.4% | 11% | 41% | 24% | 15% | 6% | 3% | – |
| UT Tyler | January 18–25, 2022 | 460 | ± 5.4% | 7% | 11% | 11% | 6% | 4% | – | 61% |
| YouGov/UH | January 14–24, 2022 | 616 | ± 3.3% | 6% | 13% | 10% | 7% | 6% | – | 57% |
| YouGov/UT/TT | October 22–31, 2021 | 436 | ± 4.7% | – | – | 14% | 8% | – | 6% | 72% |
| YouGov/TXHPF | October 14–27, 2021 | – | – | – | – | 20% | 20% | – | – | 60% |
Libertarian convention
Declared
- Mark Ash, attorney and candidate for chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas in 2020
General election
On October 27, 2022, Libertarian nominee Mark Ash published an op-ed in The Amarillo Pioneer in which he blasted Ken Paxton as "the poster child for corruption and authoritarianism" and recommended that if voters were "reluctant to throw away their votes on a third-party candidate," they should vote for Democratic nominee Rochelle Garza instead. The Texas Democratic Party put out a statement claiming that Ash had endorsed Garza, but Ash clarified that he was not endorsing her, nor would he be dropping out of the race.Polling
Graphical summary| Poll source | Date administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Ken Paxton | Rochelle Garza | Mark Ash | Other | Undecided |
| CWS Research | November 2–5, 2022 | 786 | ± 3.5% | 44% | 38% | 5% | – | 12% |
| UT Tyler | October 17–24, 2022 | 1,330 | ± 2.9% | 39% | 35% | 5% | 4% | 18% |
| UT Tyler | October 17–24, 2022 | 973 | ± 3.4% | 42% | 38% | 4% | 3% | 12% |
| Emerson College | October 17–19, 2022 | 1,000 | ± 3.0% | 47% | 42% | 4% | – | 8% |
| Siena College | October 16–19, 2022 | 649 | ± 5.1% | 48% | 42% | – | 2% | 8% |
| ActiVote | June 23 – September 21, 2022 | 209 | ± 7.0% | 45% | 43% | 12% | – | – |
| Siena College | September 14–18, 2022 | 651 | ± 4.4% | 47% | 42% | – | – | 11% |
| Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation | September 6–15, 2022 | 1,172 | ± 2.9% | 47% | 42% | 3% | – | 8% |
| UT Tyler | September 7–13, 2022 | 1,243 | ± 2.9% | 37% | 30% | 6% | 6% | 20% |
| YouGov/UT | August 26 – September 6, 2022 | 1,200 | ± 2.8% | 38% | 33% | 4% | 5% | 21% |
| YouGov/UH/TSU | August 11–29, 2022 | 1,312 | ± 2.7% | 45% | 42% | 3% | – | 10% |
| UT Tyler | August 1–7, 2022 | 1,384 | ± 2.8% | 34% | 32% | 8% | 7% | 18% |
| UT Tyler | August 1–7, 2022 | 1,199 | ± 3.0% | 36% | 34% | 8% | 6% | 16% |
| YouGov/UH | June 27 – July 7, 2022 | 1,169 | ± 2.9% | 43% | 40% | 5% | – | 12% |
| YouGov/UH | June 27 – July 7, 2022 | 1,006 | ± 3.1% | 46% | 41% | 4% | – | 9% |
| YouGov/UT | June 16–24, 2022 | 1,200 | ± 2.8% | 37% | 29% | 5% | 5% | 24% |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 1,139 | ± 2.6% | 48% | 42% | 3% | – | 7% |
George P. Bush vs. Rochelle Garza
| Poll source | Date administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Bush | Rochelle Garza | Mark Ash | Undecided |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 1,139 | ± 2.6% | 39% | 39% | 7% | 15% |
George P. Bush vs. Joe Jaworski
| Poll source | Date administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Bush | Joe Jaworski | Mark Ash | Undecided |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 1,139 | ± 2.6% | 38% | 39% | 8% | 15% |
Ken Paxton vs. Joe Jaworski
| Poll source | Date administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Ken Paxton | Joe Jaworski | Mark Ash | Undecided |
| YouGov/TXHPF | March 18–28, 2022 | 1,139 | ± 2.6% | 48% | 41% | 3% | 8% |
Ken Paxton vs. Justin Nelson
| Poll source | Date administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Ken Paxton | Justin Nelson | Undecided |
| Data for Progress | September 15–22, 2020 | 726 | ± 3.6% | 41% | 37% | 22% |
Results
By congressional district
Paxton won 25 of 38 congressional districts.| District | Paxton | Garza | Representative |
| 76% | 22% | Louie Gohmert | |
| 76% | 22% | Nathaniel Moran | |
| 61% | 36% | Dan Crenshaw | |
| 57% | 39% | Van Taylor | |
| 57% | 39% | Keith Self | |
| 64% | 33% | Pat Fallon | |
| 62% | 35% | Lance Gooden | |
| 63% | 34% | Jake Ellzey | |
| 35% | 63% | Lizzie Fletcher | |
| 66% | 32% | Kevin Brady | |
| 66% | 32% | Morgan Luttrell | |
| 23% | 75% | Al Green | |
| 60% | 37% | Michael McCaul | |
| 72% | 25% | August Pfluger | |
| 58% | 38% | Kay Granger | |
| 73% | 24% | Ronny Jackson | |
| 65% | 32% | Randy Weber | |
| 51% | 47% | Vicente Gonzalez | |
| 51% | 47% | Monica De La Cruz | |
| 34% | 63% | Veronica Escobar | |
| 63% | 34% | Pete Sessions | |
| 25% | 72% | Sheila Jackson Lee | |
| 75% | 23% | Jodey Arrington | |
| 32% | 65% | Joaquín Castro | |
| 59% | 38% | Chip Roy | |
| 59% | 39% | Troy Nehls | |
| 53% | 44% | Tony Gonzales | |
| 55% | 41% | Beth Van Duyne | |
| 66% | 31% | Roger Williams | |
| 59% | 37% | Michael Burgess | |
| 62% | 35% | Michael Cloud | |
| 45% | 52% | Henry Cuellar | |
| 30% | 68% | Sylvia Garcia | |
| 21% | 76% | Eddie Bernice Johnson | |
| 21% | 76% | Jasmine Crockett | |
| 59% | 37% | John Carter | |
| 33% | 64% | Colin Allred | |
| 25% | 72% | Marc Veasey | |
| 41% | 57% | Mayra Flores | |
| 41% | 57% | Vicente Gonzalez | |
| 25% | 72% | Lloyd Doggett | |
| 25% | 72% | Greg Casar | |
| 67% | 31% | Brian Babin | |
| 20% | 77% | Lloyd Doggett | |
| 59% | 38% | Wesley Hunt |