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Governor Eric Holcomb, who was re-elected in the 2020 with 57% of the vote, will be term-limited by the Indiana Constitution in 2024 and cannot seek re-election for a third consecutive term. U.S. Senator Mike Braun has won the Republican nomination, defeating Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch , former president of the Indiana Economic ...
In 2021, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an 8–1 decision, holding that the Texas Attorney General does not have unilateral authority to prosecute election code violations. [25] All three incumbent Judges up for re-election were part of the majority decision.
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Elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024. [2] Seats up for election will be all seats of the Texas Legislature, [3] all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the Class I seat to the United States Senate, for which two-term incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz is running for re-election. [4]
Inauguration Day is Jan. 20, 2025, but between now and then states will be certifying election results.
The U.S. and Texas state flags fly outside the state Capitol building, in Austin, Texas, on July 12, 2021.
Abbott was sworn in as governor of Texas on January 20, 2015, succeeding Rick Perry. [90] [91] He is the first governor of Texas and the third elected governor of a U.S. state to use a wheelchair, after Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (1929–1932) and George Wallace of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979; 1983–1987). [92] [93] [94]
Texas has two uniform election dates, the first Saturday in May, and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. [ 7 ] As of 2024, 99.5 percent of registered voters in Texas are in jurisdictions using voting methods with some form of auditable paper ballot , an established best practice for recounts and audits. [ 8 ]