| Election Name: | 1993 United States Senate special election in Texas |
| Country: | Texas |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1988 United States Senate election in Texas |
| Previous Year: | 1988 |
| Next Election: | 1994 United States Senate election in Texas |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
| Election Date: | May 1, 1993 (first round) June 6, 1993 (runoff) |
| Image1: | Kay Bailey Hutchison, official photo.jpg |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| U.S. Senator | |
| Before Election: | Bob Krueger |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Kay Bailey Hutchison |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Candidate1: | Kay Bailey Hutchison |
| Candidate2: | Bob Krueger |
| Candidate3: | Joe Barton |
| Candidate4: | Jack Fields |
| Candidate5: | Richard W. Fisher |
| Image3: | Joe Barton, official 103rd Congress photo.jpg |
| Image4: | JackFields.jpg |
| Image5: | FRS DALLAS cent grp 121613 0573 02832 (14079998541) (1).jpg |
| Party4: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Party5: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Party3: | Republican Party (United States) |
| 1Data1: | 593,338 29.00% |
| 1Data2: | 593,239 29.00% |
| 1Data3: | 284,135 13.89% |
| 1Data4: | 277,560 13.57% |
| 1Data5: | 165,564 8.09% |
| 1Blank: | First round |
| 2Blank: | Runoff |
| 2Data2: | 576,538 32.66% |
| 2Data1: | 1,188,716 67.34% |
| 2Data5: | Eliminated |
| 2Data4: | Eliminated |
| 2Data3: | Eliminated |
The 1993 United States Senate special election in Texas was held on June 6, 1993, to replace Democratic U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, who had resigned to become Secretary of the Treasury. Governor Ann Richards appointed Democrat Bob Krueger, a Texas Railroad Commissioner, to fill the seat. Krueger ran in the special election, but was defeated in a landslide by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.[1] [2] The nonpartisan blanket primary was held on May 1, 1993. Since no candidate received a majority in the primary, a runoff was held on June 6, 1993.[1]
Hutchison was the first Republican to win this seat since Reconstruction in 1875. It was the first time since then that Republicans held both of the state's Senate seats simultaneously. This is the last time a Senator from Texas lost re-election. In 2010, Krueger's campaign was named by the Houston Chronicle as the worst in Texas' modern political history.[3] Hutchinson became the first woman to serve as a senator from Texas.