Texas Public Lands Commissioner election, 2022
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Texas Land Commissioner |
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Election details |
Filing deadline: December 13, 2021 |
Primary: March 1, 2022 Primary runoff: May 24, 2022 General: November 8, 2022 Pre-election incumbent(s): George P. Bush (Republican) |
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Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Texas |
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Texas held an election for land commissioner on November 8, 2022. The primary was scheduled for March 1, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for May 24, 2022. The filing deadline was December 13, 2021.
Dawn Buckingham won election in the general election for Texas Land Commissioner.
Candidates and election results
General election
General election for Texas Land Commissioner
Dawn Buckingham defeated Jay Kleberg, Alfred Molison, and Carrie Menger in the general election for Texas Land Commissioner on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Dawn Buckingham (R) | 56.2 | 4,463,452 |
Jay Kleberg (D) ![]() | 42.1 | 3,350,291 | ||
![]() | Alfred Molison (G) | 1.7 | 133,034 | |
![]() | Carrie Menger (Independent) (Write-in) ![]() | 0.0 | 1,812 |
Total votes: 7,948,589 | ||||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner
Jay Kleberg defeated Sandragrace Martinez in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Jay Kleberg ![]() | 52.9 | 254,273 | |
![]() | Sandragrace Martinez | 47.1 | 225,964 |
Total votes: 480,237 | ||||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner
Dawn Buckingham defeated Tim Westley in the Republican primary runoff for Texas Land Commissioner on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Dawn Buckingham | 68.8 | 595,554 |
![]() | Tim Westley ![]() | 31.2 | 270,365 |
Total votes: 865,919 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Land Commissioner
Sandragrace Martinez and Jay Kleberg advanced to a runoff. They defeated Jinny Suh and Michael Lange in the Democratic primary for Texas Land Commissioner on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Sandragrace Martinez | 31.8 | 313,780 |
✔ | Jay Kleberg ![]() | 26.0 | 257,034 | |
![]() | Jinny Suh ![]() | 21.9 | 216,238 | |
Michael Lange | 20.2 | 199,764 |
Total votes: 986,816 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Land Commissioner
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Texas Land Commissioner on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Dawn Buckingham | 41.9 | 679,125 |
✔ | ![]() | Tim Westley ![]() | 14.8 | 239,473 |
Jon Spiers | 12.6 | 203,879 | ||
![]() | Don Minton ![]() | 10.6 | 171,001 | |
![]() | Victor Avila | 7.5 | 121,998 | |
Weston Martinez | 6.6 | 107,219 | ||
![]() | Rufus Lopez | 3.1 | 49,475 | |
![]() | Ben Armenta | 3.0 | 48,029 |
Total votes: 1,620,199 | ||||
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Green convention
Green convention for Texas Land Commissioner
Alfred Molison advanced from the Green convention for Texas Land Commissioner on April 9, 2022.
Candidate | ||
✔ | ![]() | Alfred Molison (G) |
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Voting information
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|Jay Kleberg (D)
Whether it be my upbringing on a working ranch in South Texas, my work conserving and managing wild lands in my role as Associate Director and Director of Conservation Initiatives with Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, or the time I spent covering the state building Explore Ranches to maintain rural working lands, I have spent my working life in land conservation. I believe loving Texas and accepting the science behind climate change go hand-in-hand. Equipped with land management experience, a deep understanding of our state’s environmental challenges, and an MBA from the University of Texas, I’m ready to get to work.
The Texas Land Commissioner––as the state’s top environmental post––has the power and the responsibility to address climate change. Texas is the #1 emitter of carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas, in the nation. The GLO can help fight climate change in three specific ways: by employing large-scale carbon capture and sequestration storage on state-owned lands, by diversifying the GLO’s energy portfolio through geothermal and renewable energy, thereby reducing the states carbon footprint, and by increasing the standards by which we are investing in coastal resiliency to meet the demands of climate change.
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Carrie Menger (Independent)
Texas schools should be safe, competitive, and inclusive within the global market. STEM curricula should be promoted with the expectations that no school be too small to be safe or too large to be socially-inclusive and bully-free. Building positive energy sector partnerships to build royalty-derived cash flows will enhance Permanent School Fund allocations. Enterprising corridors will also incentivize environmental protections through earned “Good Steward” awards that improving lessees’ operational leveraging potentials by accessing new unit expansion opportunities vis-à-vis new, separate unitizations. Partnerships and corridors that benefit Texas schools, the environment, and energy sector enterprising, synergistically, make sense.
The Texas Demographic Center projects a Texas population of 40 million by 2050 and the rates of land conversions from working agricultural lands to developments will likely overshadow rates of increased food and fiber production per acre of land. According to a Burleson County farmer, the conversions of large acreage farms to smaller acreage tracts diminishes agribusiness and timber profitability so much that the economic incentive to sell the land for development is greater than the return from retaining the land for continued use in agriculture. As Land Commissioner, I will prioritize Ag-use leases of state-owned lands set aside for food and fiber to offset working land conversions elsewhere in Texas and maintain positive cash flows.
Jay Kleberg (D)
The General Land Office can contribute up to $600M annually to the Texas Permanent School Fund, which funds public K-12 education. In recent years, this office and its contribution to the Texas Permanent School Fund have been used as a political chess piece. I would push to not only allocate the full $600M annually to the Permanent School Fund, but work with the legislature to increase the limit on how much the GLO could contribute annually.
The General Land Office manages 9 veterans’ homes in Amarillo, Big Spring, Bonham, El Paso, Floresville, Houston, McAllen, Temple, and Tyler. During the COVID-19 pandemic, those nine homes lost 134 veterans and had a fatality rate of 25%, which is far higher than the statewide fatality rate of 11% among nursing homes. Under its current leadership, the GLO is failing our veterans and we must do better. If elected, I would put human and financial resources to serving our veterans, and work to ensure that the GLO has long-term funding from a diversified energy portfolio to keep our promises to our veterans.![Image of https://s3.amazonaws.com/ballotpedia-api4/files/thumbs/100/100/Carrie_Menger.jpeg](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ballotpedia-api4/files/thumbs/100/100/Carrie_Menger.jpeg)
Carrie Menger (Independent)
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Carrie Menger (Independent)
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Carrie Menger (Independent)
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Carrie Menger (Independent)
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Past elections
2018
General election
General election for Texas Land Commissioner
Incumbent George P. Bush defeated Miguel Suazo and Matt Piña in the general election for Texas Land Commissioner on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | George P. Bush (R) | 53.7 | 4,435,202 |
![]() | Miguel Suazo (D) | 43.2 | 3,567,927 | |
![]() | Matt Piña (L) | 3.1 | 258,482 |
Total votes: 8,261,611 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas Land Commissioner
Miguel Suazo defeated Tex Morgan in the Democratic primary for Texas Land Commissioner on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Miguel Suazo | 70.0 | 659,163 |
![]() | Tex Morgan | 30.0 | 282,387 |
Total votes: 941,550 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas Land Commissioner
Incumbent George P. Bush defeated Jerry Patterson, Davey Edwards, and Rick Range in the Republican primary for Texas Land Commissioner on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | George P. Bush | 58.2 | 857,398 |
![]() | Jerry Patterson | 29.7 | 437,535 | |
![]() | Davey Edwards | 6.8 | 100,763 | |
![]() | Rick Range | 5.3 | 77,623 |
Total votes: 1,473,319 | ||||
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2014
Republican George P. Bush won election on November 4, 2014.
Texas Land Commissioner, 2014 | ||||
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Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
Republican | ![]() |
60.7% | 2,826,751 | |
Democrat | John Cook | 35.3% | 1,645,696 | |
Libertarian | Justin Knight | 2.7% | 126,406 | |
Green | Valerie Alessi | 1.3% | 60,112 | |
Total Votes | 4,658,965 | |||
Election results via Texas Secretary of State |
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