| Election Name: | 2016 Texas Senate election |
| Country: | Texas |
| Type: | legislative |
| Previous Election: | 2014 Texas Senate election |
| Previous Year: | 2014 |
| Next Election: | 2018 Texas Senate election |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
| Seats For Election: | 16 of the 31 seats in the Texas State Senate |
| Majority Seats: | 16 |
| Election Date: | November 8, 2016 |
| Image1: | Paul Bettencourt.jpg |
| Leader1: | Paul Bettencourt |
| Leaders Seat1: | 7th district |
| Party1: | Republican Party of Texas |
| Last Election1: | 20 seats, 63.09%[1] |
| Seats1: | 20 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,985,241 |
| Percentage1: | 56.31% |
| Swing1: | 6.78% |
| Leader2: | José R. Rodríguez |
| Leaders Seat2: | 29th district |
| Party2: | Texas Democratic Party |
| Last Election2: | 11 seats, 29.71% |
| Seats Needed2: | 5 |
| Seats2: | 11 |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,355,412 |
| Percentage2: | 38.45% |
| Swing2: | 8.74% |
| Ongoing: | no |
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.
| Party | Candidates | Votes | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | Before | Up | Won | After | +/– | |||||
| Republican | 10 | 1,985,241 | 56.31 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 20 | |||
| Democratic | 10 | 1,355,412 | 38.45 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 11 | |||
| Libertarian | 6 | 172,255 | 4.89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Green | 1 | 12,535 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 3,525,443 | 100.00 | 31 | 16 | 16 | 31 | ||||
| Source:[2] | ||||||||||
| Democratic | Republican | Others | Total | Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | Votes | scope=col data-sort-type="number" | % |
| District 1 | - | - | 245,648 | 100.00% | - | - | 245,648 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 4 | - | - | 239,869 | 87.33% | 34,791 | 12.67% | 274,660 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 6 | 119,891 | 100.00% | - | - | - | - | 119,891 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 11 | - | - | 218,201 | 100.00% | - | - | 218,201 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 12 | - | - | 241,232 | 82.98% | 49,465 | 17.02% | 290,697 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 13 | 178,277 | 92.50% | - | - | 14,447 | 7.50% | 192,724 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 18 | - | - | 229,051 | 85.78% | 37,965 | 14.22% | 267,016 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 19 | 134,997 | 55.87% | 97,682 | 40.43% | 8,948 | 3.70% | 241,627 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 20 | 132,128 | 61.68% | 82,098 | 38.32% | - | - | 214,226 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 21 | 160,959 | 100.00% | - | - | - | - | 160,959 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 22 | 88,769 | 29.57% | 211,380 | 70.43% | - | - | 300,149 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 24 | 81,836 | 27.61% | 214,568 | 72.39% | - | - | 296,404 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 26 | 155,441 | 79.87% | - | - | 39,174 | 20.13% | 194,615 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 27 | 135,945 | 100.00% | - | - | - | - | 135,945 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| District 28 | - | - | 205,512 | 100.00% | - | - | 205,512 | 100.00% | Republican hold | ||||||
| District 29 | 167,169 | 100.00% | - | - | - | - | 167,169 | 100.00% | Democratic hold | ||||||
| Total | 1,355,412 | 38.45% | 1,985,241 | 56.31% | 184,790 | 5.24% | 3,525,443 | 100.00% | Source: | ||||||