Texas Senate, District 7

District 7 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that serves a portion of Harris county in the U.S. state of Texas. The current Senator from District 7 is Paul Bettencourt.

Texas's 7th State Senate district
Senator	Paul Bettencourt R–Houston
Demographics	46.2% White 15.5% Black 28.5% Hispanic 10% Asian
Population	954,933

Election history

Election history of District 7 from 1992.^[1]

Most recent election

2006

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 7^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Dan Patrick	118,067	69.19	-22.12
	Democratic	F. Michael Kubosh	52,586	30.81	+30.81
Majority			65,481	38.37	-44.25
Turnout			170,653		+11.44
	Republican hold

Republican primary, 2006: Senate District 7^[3]

Candidate		Votes	%	±
	Mark Ellis	2,545	6.07
	Peggy Hamric	6,900	16.45
	Joe Nixon	3,629	8.65
✓	Dan Patrick	28,860	68.82
Turnout		41,934

Previous elections

2002

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 7^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Jon Lindsay	139,827	91.31	-8.69
	Libertarian	Edgar L. Buchanan	13,305	8.69	+8.69
Majority			126,522	82.62	-17.38
Turnout			153,132		-30.34
	Republican hold

2000

Texas general election, 2000: Senate District 7^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Jon Lindsay	219,835	100.00	0.00
Majority			219,835	100.00	0.00
Turnout			219,835		+20.69
	Republican hold

1996

Texas general election, 1996: Senate District 7^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Jon Lindsay	182,144	100.00	0.00
Majority			182,144	100.00	0.00
Turnout			182,144		+26.82
	Republican hold

Republican primary, 1996: Senate District 7^[7]

Candidate		Votes	%	±
	Jerry Dumas	27,658	48.56
✓	Jon Lindsay	29,303	51.44
Turnout		56,961

1994

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 7^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Henderson	143,628	100.00	+10.91
Majority			143,628	100.00	+21.83
Turnout			143,628		-28.46
	Republican hold

1992

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 7^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Don Henderson	178,850	89.09
	Libertarian	James P. Chudleigh	21,910	10.91
Majority			156,940	78.17
Turnout			200,760
	Republican hold

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 7	Counties in District
1 1846	George Tyler Wood William C. Abbott	Jefferson, Liberty.
2 1847	William C. Abbott	Jefferson, Liberty, Polk, Tyler.
3 1849	Alfred M. Triutt	Nacogdoches, Shelby.
4 1851	Isaac Parker	Anderson, Cherokee.
5 1853	M. D. K. Taylor	Cass, Titus.
6 1855
7 1857
8 1859	John Green Chambers
9 1861	John W. Moore	Bowie, Davis, Marion.
10 1863
11 1866	William P. Saufley
12 1870	Henry Rawson	Harrison.
13 1873
14 1874	David Browning Culberson	Bowie, Cass, Marion.
15 1876	James Postell Douglas	Camp, Gregg, Smith, Upshur.
16 1879	John Martin Duncan
17 1881
18 1883	John Young Gooch	Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Van Zandt.
19 1885	Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore
20 1887	Alexander White Gregg
21 1889	Robert H. Morris
22 1891	John G. Kearby
23 1893		Gregg, Rains, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood.
24 1895	Robert N. Stafford
25 1897
26 1899
27 1901
28 1903		Camp, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood.
29 1905
30 1907	William J. Greer
31 1909
32 1911
33 1913	William J. Greer Earl M. Greer
34 1915	William D. Suiter
35 1917
36 1919
37 1921
38 1923	Tomas G. Pollard
39 1925
40 1927
41 1929
42 1931
43 1933-	Will D. Pace
44 1935
45 1937
46 1939
47 1941	T. C. Chadick
48 1943
49 1945
50 1947
51 1949	Warren McDonald
52 1951
53 1953		Camp, Henderson, Kaufman, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood.
54 1955
55 1957	Bill D. Wood
56 1959
57 1961	Galloway Calhoun
58 1963
59 1965
60 1967	Chet Brooks	Portion of Harris.
61 1969
62 1971
63 1973	R. A. "Bob" Gammage	All of Fort Bend. Portion of Harris.
64 1975	R. A. "Bob" Gammage Gene Jones
65 1977	Gene Jones
66 1979
67 1981	W. Michael "Mike" Richards
68 1983	Don Henderson	Portion of Harris.
69 1985
70 1987
71 1989
72 1991
73 1993
74 1995
75 1997	Jon Lindsay
76 1999
77 2001
78 2003
79 2005
80 2007	Dan Patrick
81 2009

References

1. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.
2. . Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
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9. . Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2006-12-23.