Texas Senate, District 14

Texas's 14th
State Senate district
Texas's 14th; State Senate district
Senator
	Sarah Eckhardt; D–Austin
Demographics	50.7% White; 10.2% Black; 31.2% Hispanic; 8.2% Asian
Population	970,392

District 14 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves Bastrop County and a portion of Travis county in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 14 is Sarah Eckhardt.

Top 5 biggest cities in district[]

District 14 has a population of 834,750 with 640,349 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.^[1]

	Name	County	Pop.^[2]^[a]
1	Austin	Travis	560,768
2	Pflugerville	Travis	46,636
3	Elgin	Bastrop/Travis	8,135
4	Bastrop	Bastrop	7,218
5	Lago Vista	Travis	6,041

District officeholders[]

Name		Party	Years	Legislature	Counties served
1			February 16, 1846 – December 13, 1847	1st	Colorado, Fayette
2			December 13, 1847 – November 5, 1849	2nd	Colorado, Fayette
3	Jerome B. Robertson		November 5, 1849 – November 3, 1851	3rd	Burleson, Milam, Washington, Williamson
4	James H. Armstrong		November 3, 1851 – November 7, 1853	4th	Brazos, Burleson, Leon, Milam, Robertson, Williamson
5			November 7, 1853 – November 5, 1855	5th	Panola, Shelby
6			November 5, 1855 – November 7, 1859	6th 7th
7			November 7, 1859 – February 13, 1860	8th
8			January 28, 1861 – November 4, 1861	8th
9			November 4, 1861 – September 21, 1863	9th	Fannin, Hunt
10			October 24, 1863 – August 6, 1866	9th 10th
11			August 6, 1866 – October 31, 1866	11th
12	William Henry Parsons	Republican	February 8, 1870 – December 4, 1871	12th	Harris, Montgomery
13		Republican	January 14, 1873 – January 13, 1874	13th
14	William R. Baker	Democratic	January 13, 1874 – April 18, 1876	14th
15		Democratic	April 18, 1876 – January 14, 1879	15th	Freestone, Limestone, Navarro
16		Democratic	January 14, 1879 – January 8, 1883	16th 17th	Freestone, Limestone, Navarro
17		Democratic	January 8, 1883 – January 11, 1887	18th 19th	Brazos, Milam, Robertson
18	Scott Field	Democratic	January 11, 1887 – January 13, 1891	20th 21st
19		Democratic	January 13, 1891 – January 10, 1893
20		Democratic	January 10, 1893 – January 12, 1897		Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler
21		Democratic	January 18, 1897 – January 8, 1901
22		Democratic	January 8, 1901 – January 8, 1907
23		Democratic	January 9, 1907 – January 10, 1911
24		Democratic	January 10, 1911 – January 12, 1915
25		Democratic	January 12, 1915 – May 17, 1917
26		Democratic	September 4, 1917 – January 14, 1919
27	Wilfred Roy Cousins, Sr.	Democratic	January 14, 1919 – January 13, 1925
28		Democratic	January 13, 1925 – January 8, 1929		Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Lee, Robertson, Washington
29		Democratic	January 8, 1929 – January 3, 1933
30		Democratic	January 10, 1933 – January 14, 1941	45th 46th
31		Democratic	January 14, 1941 – January 11, 1949	47th 48th 49th 50th
32	William T. "Bill" Moore	Democratic	January 11, 1949 – January 13, 1953	51st 52nd
33		Democratic	January 13, 1953 – January 8, 1957	53rd 54th	Bastrop, Travis, Williamson
34		Democratic	January 8, 1957 – January 10, 1967	55th 56th 57th 58th 59th	Bastrop, Travis, Williamson
		Democratic	January 10, 1967 – January 9, 1973	60th 61st 62nd	Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, Williamson
		Democratic	January 9, 1973 – June 1, 1973	63rd	Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis
35	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	August 18, 1973 – January 11, 1983	63rd 64th 65th 66th 67th	Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Travis
35	Lloyd Doggett	Democratic	January 11, 1983 – January 8, 1985	68th	Hays, Travis
36	Gonzalo Barrientos	Democratic	January 8, 1985 – January 14, 2003	69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th	Hays, Travis
36	Gonzalo Barrientos	Democratic	January 14, 2003 – January 9, 2007	78th 79th	Travis
37	Kirk Watson	Democratic	January 9, 2007 – January 8, 2013	80th 81st 82nd	Travis
37	Kirk Watson	Democratic	January 8, 2013 – April 30, 2020	83rd 84th 85th 86th	Bastrop, Travis
38	Sarah Eckhardt	Democratic	July 31, 2020 – Present	86th 87th	Bastrop, Travis

Election history[]

Election history of District 14 from 1992.^[b]

2020[]

The seat for District 14 became vacant on April 30, 2020, after the resignation of Kirk Watson.^[3] A special election has been called for July 14, 2020. No candidate had received over 50 percent of the vote, therefore the race was to proceed to a runoff later in 2020 between the top two candidates in the first round, resulting in two Democrats advancing to the runoff.^[4] On July 27, 2020, Eddie Rodriguez, dropped out of the race for a runoff election, resulting in Sarah Eckhardt being declared winner.^[5]

Texas special general election: Senate District 14
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sarah Eckhardt	59,267	49.66
	Democratic	Eddie Rodriguez	40,384	33.84
	Republican	Donald Zimmerman	15,565	13.04
	Republican	Waller Thomas Burns II	1,442	1.21
	Independent	Jeff Ridgeway	1,386	1.16
	Libertarian	Pat Dixon	1,306	1.09
Turnout			119,350
	Democratic hold

2018[]

Texas general election, 2018: Senate District 14^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kirk Watson (Incumbent)	276,052	71.93	-8.05
	Republican	George W. Hindman	96,834	25.23	+25.23
	Libertarian	Micah M. Verlander	10,889	2.84	-17.18
Majority			179,218	46.70	-13.26
Turnout			383,775		+98.80
	Democratic hold

2014[]

: Senate District 14^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kirk Watson (Incumbent)	154,391	79.98	+19.25
	Libertarian		38,648	20.02	+16.41
Majority			115,743	59.96	+34.90
Turnout			193,039		+2.11
	Democratic hold

2010[]

: Senate District 14^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kirk Watson (Incumbent)	115,949	60.73	-19.59
	Republican		68,100	35.67	+35.67
	Libertarian		6,884	3.61	-16.07
Majority			47,849	25.06	-35.57
Turnout			190,933		+32.53
	Democratic hold

2006[]

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 14^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kirk Watson	127,223	80.32	+27.61
	Libertarian		31,180	19.68	+15.51
Majority			96,043	60.63	+51.05
Turnout			158,403		-12.29
	Democratic hold

2002[]

Texas general election, 2002: Senate District 14^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Gonzalo Barrientos (Incumbent)	95,182	52.70	-29.25
	Republican		77,885	43.12	+43.12
	Libertarian		7,537	4.17	-13.87
Majority			17,297	9.58	-54.33
Turnout			180,604		-20.20
	Democratic hold

2000[]

: Senate District 14^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Gonzalo Barrientos (Incumbent)	185,48	81.95	-2.92
	Libertarian		40,847	18.05	+2.92
Majority			144,631	63.90	-5.85
Turnout			180,604		-20.20
	Democratic hold

1996[]

: Senate District 14^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Gonzalo Barrientos (Incumbent)	157,194	84.87	+1.86
	Natural Law		28,013	15.13	+15.13
Majority			129,181	69.75	+3.72
Turnout			185,207		+13.07
	Democratic hold

1994[]

Texas general election, 1994: Senate District 14^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Gonzalo Barrientos (Incumbent)	135,979	83.02	+15.40
	Libertarian		27,820	16.98	+13.52
Majority			108,159	66.03	+27.34
Turnout			163,799		-35.75
	Democratic hold

1992[]

Texas general election, 1992: Senate District 14^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Gonzalo Barrientos (Incumbent)	172,384	67.61
	Republican		73,729	28.92
	Libertarian		8,837	3.47
Majority			98,655	38.70
Turnout			147,975
	Democratic hold

Notes[]

^ Population is based on the number of people in the district in that city, not the overall population of that city
^ Uncontested primary elections are not shown.

References[]

^ "District Population Analysis with County Subtotals" (PDF). The Texas State Senate. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
^ "Cities and Census Designated Places (CDPs) by District" (PDF). The Texas State Senate. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
^ "State Sen. Kirk Watson to retire from Texas Senate". Texas Tribune. February 18, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
^ "Sarah Eckhardt leads special election, but doesn't avoid runoff for former Texas Sen. Kirk Watson's seat". KVUE. July 15, 2020. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
^ Pollock, Cassandra (July 27, 2020). "Sarah Eckhardt wins special election for Texas Senate seat after Rep. Eddie Rodriguez forgoes a runoff". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
^ "2018 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved June 17, 2020.
^ "2014 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved November 30, 2017.
^ "2010 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved November 30, 2017.
^ "2006 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
^ "2002 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
^ "2000 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
^ "1996 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
^ "1994 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
^ "1992 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.

[pop-3] Population is based on the number of people in the district in that city, not the overall population of that city

[primary-4] Uncontested primary elections are not shown.

[1] "District Population Analysis with County Subtotals" (PDF). The Texas State Senate. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

[2] "Cities and Census Designated Places (CDPs) by District" (PDF). The Texas State Senate. Retrieved 2020-06-18.

[5] "State Sen. Kirk Watson to retire from Texas Senate". Texas Tribune. February 18, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2020.

[20se-6] "Sarah Eckhardt leads special election, but doesn't avoid runoff for former Texas Sen. Kirk Watson's seat". KVUE. July 15, 2020. Retrieved June 22, 2021.

[20sero-7] Pollock, Cassandra (July 27, 2020). "Sarah Eckhardt wins special election for Texas Senate seat after Rep. Eddie Rodriguez forgoes a runoff". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved June 22, 2021.

[8] "2018 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved June 17, 2020.

[9] "2014 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[10] "2010 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Retrieved November 30, 2017.

[11] "2006 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2006-12-15.

[12] "2002 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.

[13] "2000 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.

[14] "1996 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.

[15] "1994 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.

[16] "1992 General Election". Office of the Secretary of State (Texas). Archived from the original on 2006-11-08. Retrieved 2007-01-03.

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