Texas Senate, District 22 Explained

State:	Texas
Percent Asian:	2.9
Population:	879,234
Percent Hispanic:	23.8
District:	22
Percent Black:	13.7
Percent White:	59.2
Residence:	Granbury
Party:	Republican
Representative:	Brian Birdwell
Chamber:	Senate

District 22 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves all of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Ellis, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, McLennan, and Somervell counties and portions of Ellis and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas.^[1]

The current senator from District 22 is Brian Birdwell.

Biggest cities in the district

District 22 has a population of 809,840 with 592,255 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.^[2]

	Name	County	Pop.^[3]
1	Waco	McLennan	124,805
2	Arlington	Tarrant	68,248
3	Waxahachie	Ellis	29,621
4	Cleburne	Johnson	29,337
5	Burleson	Johnson	29,111

Election history

Election history of District 22 from 1992.

1992

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 22	width=70%	Counties in District
3	Benjamin Rush Wallace	Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Cherokee, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Harrison, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lamar, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Polk, Red River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Titus, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt.^[4]
4	Baron Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach	Bexar, Comal, Medina.
5	William Harrison "Howdy" Martin	Freestone, Henderson, Limestone, Navarro.
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8	Francis Marion Martin
9	John T. Harcourt	Colorado, Fayette, Matagorda, Wharton.
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11	Richard V. Cook
12	E. Thomas Broughton	Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Knox, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, Young.
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14	William H. Trolinger^[5] N. S. Craven	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Grayson, Hardeman, Knox, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger.
15	John W. Moore	Hill, Johnson, McLennan.
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17	Lawrence Sullivan Ross
18	John A. Martin	Falls, McLennan.
19	Richard H. Harrison
20	Richard H. Harrison^[6] Waller Saunders Baker
21	Richard H. Harrison
22	John H. Harrison
23	Leonidas Storey Lawhon	Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio, Victoria, Wilson.
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25	Edward D. Linn
26	Asbury Bascom Davidson
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28		Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Frio, Goliad, Jackson, Karnes, Live Oak, Refugio, Victoria, Wilson.
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30	William O. Murray
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32
33	William O. Murray John Heywood Bailey
34	John Heywood Bailey
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37
38
39	Eugene Miller	Denton, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise.
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42	H. Grady Woodruff
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46	Royston Lanning
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48
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50	Robert L. Proffer
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52	Wayne W. Wagonseller
53		Callahan, Clay, Denton, Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Wise.
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55	Floyd Francis Bradshaw
56	Floyd Francis Bradshaw Robert W. Baker
57	Robert W. Baker Tom Creighton
58	Tom Creighton
59
60		All of Clay, Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Wise. Portion of Tarrant.
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62
63		All of Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Hill, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Stephens, Wise, Young. Portion of Tarrant.
64
65		Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Hill, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Stephens, Wise, Young.
66
67	Bob Glasgow
68		All of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Stephens, Wise. Portions of Denton, Tarrant.
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73	Jane Nelson	All of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Wise. Portions of Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant.
74	David Sibley	All of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Wise. Portions of Denton, Johnson, McLennan, Parker, Tarrant.
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78	Kip Averitt	Bosque, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Hill, Hood, Johnson, McLennan, Navarro, Somervell.
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81	Kip Averitt Brian Birdwell
82	Brian Birdwell
83		Bosque, Ellis, Falls, Hill, Hood, Johnson, McLennan, Navarro, Somervell. Portion of Tarrant.
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88		Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Ellis, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, McLennan, Somervell. Portions of Ellis, Tarrant.

Notes and References

1. Web site: State Senate Districts PLANS2168 . WTAW . 25 July 2024.
2. Web site: District Population Analysis with County Subtotals . 2020-06-19 . The Texas State Senate.
3. Web site: Cities and Census Designated Places (CDPs) by District . 2020-06-19 . The Texas State Senate.
4. For the Third Texas Legislature only, District 22 was at-large district that covered most of east and northeast Texas. Citizens of all of these counties were also represented by another senator.
5. Craven sworn in on 25 January 1875 for Trolinger who had resigned.
6. Harrison resigned 20 April 1887. Baker elected in special election 4 June 1887, sworn in 16 April 1888