Texas Senate, District 3 Explained

State:	Texas
District:	3
Chamber:	Senate
Representative:	Robert Nichols
Party:	Republican
Residence:	Jacksonville
Percent White:	72.5
Percent Black:	12.8
Percent Hispanic:	12.9
Percent Other Race:	1.8
Population:	843,567
Notes:	^[1]

District 3 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that serves all of Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Houston, Jasper, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler counties, and a portion of Jefferson county in the U.S. state of Texas.^[2] The current senator from District 3 is Robert Nichols.

Election history

Election history of District 3 from 1992.^[3]

1992

District officeholders

Legislature	Senator, District 3	width=70%	Counties in District
1	William Thomas Scott Edward Clark	Harrison
2	Edward Clark
3	Hardin Hart	Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt
4	Sam Bogart	Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Grayson
5	Hardin Hart	Fannin, Hunt
6	Robert H. Taylor
7
8	Martin D. Hart Turner L. Greene
9	M. W. Wheeler	Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine
10	Henry M. Kinsey
11	Frederick Voight James W. Guinn
12	James Eldrage Dillard Mijamin Priest	Cherokee, Houston
13	James Eldrage Dillard
14		Angelina, Cherokee, Houston, Trinity
15	James W. Motley	Panola, Rusk, Shelby
16
17	Richard M. Wynne
18	William Henry Pope	Harrison
19
20
21
22
23	Edwin L. Agnew	Fannin, Lamar
24
25	Robert L. Ross
26
27	Charles A. Wheeler
28	Travis C. Henderson
29	A. P. Barrett
30
31	B. B. Sturgeon
32
33	Flavious M. Gibson
34
35
36
37	Henry Lewis Darwin
38
39	I. D. Fairchild	Angelina, Cherokee, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler
40
41	William E. Thomason
42
43	John S. Redditt
44
45
46
47	Ben Ramsey
48
49
50
51	Ottis Elmer Lock
52
53		Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler
54
55
56	Martin Dies Jr.
57
58
59
60	Charles Wilson	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler
61
62		Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Navarro, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler
63	Don Adams	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Kaufman, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Tyler
64
65
66	Roy Blake, Sr.
67
68		All of Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Tyler Portion of Montgomery
69
70
71	Bill Haley
72
73		All of Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Tyler Portion of Montgomery
74	Drew Nixon	All of Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Tyler Portions of Montgomery, Smith
75
76
77	Todd Staples
78		All of Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Tyler Portions of Montgomery, Smith
79
80	Robert Nichols
81
82
83		Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Houston, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, Trinity, Tyler
84
85
86
87
88		Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Henderson, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson (part), Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity, Tyler

Notes and References

1. Web site: Texas State Senate District 3 . Ballotpedia . 25 November 2019 . en.
2. Web site: State Senate Districts PLANS2168 . WTAW . 25 July 2024.
3. Uncontested primary elections are not shown.