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2010 Texas State Senate election

November 2010
16 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate 16 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Last election 19 12 Seats before 19 12 Seats won 19 12 Seat change Popular vote 1,839,653 591,423 Percentage 70.65% 22.71%
President Pro Tempore before election Republican Elected President Pro Tempore Democratic

The 2010 Texas State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Texas voters elected state senators in 16 of the 31 state senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate. A statewide map of Texas's state Senate districts can be obtained from the Texas Legislative Council here, and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Census here.

Following the 2008 State Senate elections, the Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate with nineteen members to the Democrats' twelve.

To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to gain four seats. Instead, while neither party gained seats from the other, the Republicans earned over 70% of the vote to the Democrats' 23%. In addition, the GOP fielded candidates for all sixteen races; the Democrats fielded eight. .

Summary of the November 6, 2012 Texas Senate election results

Party		Candidates	Votes		Seats
			No.	%	Before	Up	Won	After	+/–
	Republican	16	1,839,653	70.65	19	19	19	19
	Democratic	8	591,423	22.71	12	12	12	12
	Libertarian	?	?	5.08	0	0	0	0
	Green	?	?	0.46	0	0	0	0
	Write-in	?	?	0.00	0	0	0	0
Total			2,604,006	100.00	31	15	15	31
Source:

Popular vote Republican   70.65% Democratic   22.71% Libertarian   5.08% Green   0.46% Write-in   0.00%

Senate seats won Republican   68.75% Democratic   31.25%

District	Democratic		Republican		Others		Total		Result
	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
District 1	-	-	140,273	100.00%	-	-	140,273	100.00%	Republican hold
District 2	53,566	33.62%	105,779	66.38%	-	-	159,345	100.00%	Republican hold
District 3	-	-	153,906	88.90%	19,211	11.10%	173,117	100.00%	Republican hold
District 5	58,525	28.73%	145,170	71.27%	-	-	203,695	100.00%	Republican hold
District 7	-	-	184,704	86.41%	29,048	13.59%	213,752	100.00%	Republican hold
District 8	-	-	136,369	84.02%	25,935	15.98%	162,304	100.00%	Republican hold
District 12	-	-	148,592	86.15%	23,894	13.85%	172,486	100.00%	Republican hold
District 13	113,155	78.17%	31,596	21.83%	-	-	144,751	100.00%	Democratic hold
District 14	115,949	60.73%	68,100	35.67%	6,884	3.61%	190,933	100.00%	Democratic hold
District 15	77,096	59.28%	52,959	40.72%	-	-	130,055	100.00%	Democratic hold
District 17	-	-	112,595	83.16%	22,802	16.84%	135,397	100.00%	Republican hold
District 18	61,345	29.57%	146,087	70.43%	-	-	207,432	100.00%	Republican hold
District 19	61,327	52.14%	53,024	45.08%	3,269	2.78%	117,620	100.00%	Democratic hold
District 22	-	-	134,231	100.00%	-	-	134,231	100.00%	Republican hold
District 25	-	-	192,965	82.18%	41,857	17.82%	234,822	100.00%	Republican hold
District 29	50,460	60.24%	33,303	39.76%	-	-	83,793	100.00%	Democratic hold
Total	591,423	22.71%	1,839,653	70.65%	172,900	6.64%	2,604,006	100.00%	Source: