2016 Texas Senate election

2016 Texas Senate election
November 8, 2016
16 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate
16 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Paul Bettencourt José R. Rodríguez
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat 7th district 29th district
Last election 20 seats, 63.09% 11 seats, 29.71%
Seats won 20 11
Seat change
Popular vote 1,985,241 1,355,412
Percentage 56.31% 38.45%
Swing 6.78% 8.74%
Election results
     Republican hold
     Democratic hold
     No election

The 2016 Texas 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. The winners of this election served in the 85th Texas Legislature. 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 2014 State Senate elections, the Republicans maintained effective control of the Senate with twenty members to the Democrats' eleven.

To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to gain five Senate seats. While the statewide popular vote for this class of Senators swung 8.6 percentage points toward the Democrats when compared to the vote they earned in the 2012 elections, both parties retained the eight seats each was defending.

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