Election Name: | 1906 Texas gubernatorial election |
Country: | Texas |
Election Date: | November 8, 1906 |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | 1904 Texas gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1904 |
Next Election: | 1908 Texas gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1908 |
Image1: | File:T.M. Campbell, Governor, Bain portrait bust.jpg |
Candidate1: | Thomas Mitchell Campbell |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 149,105 |
Percentage1: | 77.6% |
Candidate2: | C. A. Gray |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 23,771 |
Percentage2: | 12.4% |
Governor | |
Before Election: | S. W. T. Lanham |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Posttitle: | Governor-elect |
After Election: | Thomas Mitchell Campbell |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1906 Texas gubernatorial election was held to elect the Governor of Texas. Thomas Mitchell Campbell was elected to a two-year term in office.
This was the first election in which a party held a primary to determine its nominee.[1] Thomas Mitchell Campbell won the Democratic nomination over a four-man field including M. M. Brooks, Oscar Branch Colquitt and Charles K. Bell; his victory was tantamount to election with the Republican Party already weak in Texas and deeply divided at the time.
Acheson was the candidate of the "black and tan" faction of the Republicans, while Gray was nominated by the "lily-white movement" which sought to exclude non-white men from the party.