Lieutenant Governor of Texas

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Texas Lieutenant Governor

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General information
Office Type:  Partisan
Office website:  Official Link
Compensation:  $7,200
Term limits:  None
Structure
Length of term:   4 years
Authority:  Texas Constitution, Article 4, Section 16
Selection Method:  Elected
Current Officeholder

Lieutenant Governor of Texas Dan Patrick
Republican Party
Assumed office: 2015

Elections
Next election:  November 3, 2026
Last election:  November 8, 2022
Other Texas Executive Offices
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The Lieutenant Governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in the government of Texas. The office of the lieutenant governor is part of both the executive and legislative branches. According to the Texas Constitution the lieutenant governor is also the President of the Texas State Senate. The lieutenant governor becomes governor if the elected governor resigns or dies while in office.

Current officeholder

See also: Current Lieutenant Governors

The current officeholder is Dan Patrick (R). He was first elected in 2014, and sworn into office January 20, 2015.[1]

Authority

Article 4, Section 16 of the Texas Constitution establishes the office of lieutenant governor:[2]

There shall also be a Lieutenant Governor, who shall be chosen at every election for Governor by the same voters, in the same manner, continue in office for the same time, and possess the same qualifications. The voters shall distinguish for whom they vote as Governor and for whom as Lieutenant Governor.[3]

Qualifications

Article 4, Section 16 of the Texas Constitution establishes the qualifications of office as the same as those of the governor:

  • at least 30 years old
  • a resident of Texas for at least five years
  • a United States citizen

There shall also be a Lieutenant Governor, who shall be chosen at every election for Governor by the same voters, in the same manner, continue in office for the same time, and possess the same qualifications. The voters shall distinguish for whom they vote as Governor and for whom as Lieutenant Governor.

[2]

Elections

Texas elects lieutenant governors in the midterm elections, that is, even years that are not presidential election years (e.g. 2018, 2022, 2026, 2030). Legally, the lieutenant gubernatorial inauguration is always set for "the first Tuesday after the organization of the Legislature, or as soon thereafter as practicable."[4]

If two candidates tie for the most votes or if an election is contested, a joint session of the legislature shall cast ballots to resolve the issue.

Texas elects the governor and the lieutenant governor in separate elections in both the primary and the general elections; therefore, it is possible to have a partisan split in the two offices.[3]

2022

See also: Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Incumbent Dan Patrick defeated Mike Collier and Shanna Steele in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick (R)
 
53.8
 
4,317,692
Image of Mike Collier
Mike Collier (D)
 
43.5
 
3,492,544
Image of Shanna Steele
Shanna Steele (L)
 
2.8
 
222,208

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 8,032,444
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary runoff election

Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Mike Collier defeated Michelle Beckley in the Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on May 24, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Mike Collier
Mike Collier
 
54.8
 
265,345
Image of Michelle Beckley
Michelle Beckley
 
45.2
 
218,727

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 484,072
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Mike Collier and Michelle Beckley advanced to a runoff. They defeated Carla Brailey in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Mike Collier
Mike Collier
 
41.7
 
422,379
✔
Image of Michelle Beckley
Michelle Beckley
 
30.1
 
304,799
Image of Carla Brailey
Carla Brailey
 
28.2
 
285,342

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,012,520
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on March 1, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
 
76.6
 
1,425,717
Image of Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller Candidate Connection
 
6.9
 
127,735
Image of Trayce Bradford
Trayce Bradford Candidate Connection
 
6.5
 
120,514
Image of Aaron Sorrells
Aaron Sorrells Candidate Connection
 
3.9
 
73,031
Image of Zach Vance
Zach Vance Candidate Connection
 
3.8
 
70,863
Image of Todd Bullis
Todd Bullis Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
43,097

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,860,957
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Shanna Steele advanced from the Libertarian convention for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on April 10, 2022.

Candidate
✔
Image of Shanna Steele
Shanna Steele (L)

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

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2018

See also: Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018

General election

General election for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Incumbent Dan Patrick defeated Mike Collier and Kerry McKennon in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick (R)
 
51.3
 
4,260,990
Image of Mike Collier
Mike Collier (D) Candidate Connection
 
46.5
 
3,860,865
Image of Kerry McKennon
Kerry McKennon (L) Candidate Connection
 
2.2
 
183,516

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 8,305,371
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Mike Collier defeated Michael Cooper in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on March 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Mike Collier
Mike Collier Candidate Connection
 
52.4
 
500,568
Image of Michael Cooper
Michael Cooper
 
47.6
 
455,222

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 955,790
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas

Incumbent Dan Patrick defeated Scott Milder in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas on March 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
 
75.9
 
1,164,065
Image of Scott Milder
Scott Milder
 
24.1
 
369,143

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,533,208
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Full history

2014

See also: Texas Lieutenant Gubernatorial election, 2014

Republican Dan Patrick won election on November 4, 2014.

Lieutenant Governor of Texas, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngDan Patrick 58.1% 2,724,493
     Democrat Leticia Van de Putte 38.7% 1,813,974
     Libertarian Robert Butler 2.6% 119,833
     Green Chandrakantha Courtney 0.6% 27,719
Total Votes 4,686,019
Election results via Texas Secretary of State


Duties

Though a member of the executive branch, the lieutenant governor's only executive duty is to assume the governorship in the event the office becomes vacant or the governor temporarily leaves the state.[5]

Role as President of the Senate

As President of the Texas State Senate, the lieutenant governor has the authority to decide all parliamentary questions and to use discretion in following senate procedural rules.[3]

The lieutenant governor has the power to set up standing or special committees and appoint committee chairpersons and individual members. The lieutenant governor also determines the order in which bills are considered by the state senate. As the president of senate, the lieutenant governor may cast tie-breaking votes. The Constitution also names the lieutenant governor to the five-member Legislative Redistricting Board, which apportions the state into senatorial and representative districts in the event the full legislature is unable to do so.[3]

Statutory duties

As of February 2017, the lieutenant governor also had the following statutory duties:[6]

“
  • Serves as a member or joint chair of:
    • Appropriations, Committee to Adopt a Limit on the Rate of Growth of
    • Bond Review Board, Texas
    • Cash Management Committee
    • Competitive Government, State Council on
    • Homeland Security Council
    • Legislative Audit Committee (Joint Chair)
    • Legislative Budget Board (Joint Chair)
    • Legislative Council, Texas (Joint Chair)
    • Legislative Library Board
    • Medal of Honor Nominating Committee, Texas Legislative
    • Preservation Board, State
    • State-Federal Relations Advisory Policy Board, Office of
  • Prior approval of funds awarded by Texas Enterprise Fund (with Speaker)
  • May appoint 2 scholarship recipients for the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Fund
  • Appoints an employee to distribute Senate Journals
  • May designate emergency legislative successors if a senator has failed to do so (Emergency Interim Succession)
  • May request Economic Impact Statements from agencies for bills
  • May administer oaths
  • Approves allocation of office space for Senate
  • May set certain personnel policies for the Senate
  • Recipient of numerous reports from agencies and boards (with Governor and Speaker)
  • Appoints one or more members to the following:
    • Adult Offender Supervision, Texas State Council for Interstate
    • Aging, Legislative Committee on
    • Agriculture Policy Board
    • Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Texas Council on
    • Bioenergy Policy Council, Texas
    • Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Oversight Committee
    • Cemetery Committee, State
    • Charitable Campaign Policy Committee, State Employee
    • Communities in Schools Advisory Committee
    • Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee
    • CSG-WEST/SLC--Border Legislative Conference
    • Cultural Affairs, Advisory Council on
    • Data Transparency Commission, Interagency
    • Demographer, Office of State
    • Developmental Disabilities, Executive Committee of the Office for the Prevention of
    • Economic Development Stakeholders, Advisory Board of
    • Economic Incentive Oversight Board
    • Economic Stabilization Fund, Select Committee to Determine a Sufficient Balance of the
    • Edwards Aquifer Legislative Oversight Committee
    • Elections Advisory Committee
    • Emergency Communications, Commission on State
    • Emissions Reduction Plan Advisory Board, Texas
    • Energy Board, Southern States
    • Energy Council
    • Environmental Flows Advisory Group
    • Ethics Commission, Texas
    • Facilities Commission, Texas
    • Government Facilities, Joint Oversight Committee on
    • Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission dd. Health and Human Services Transition Legislative Oversight Committee
    • High School Completion and Success Initiative Council
    • Higher Education, Legislative Oversight Committee on
    • Holocaust and Genocide Commission, Texas
    • Homeless, Texas Interagency Council for the
    • Inaugural Committee
    • Inaugural Endowment Fund Committee
    • Indigent Defense Commission, Governing Board of the Texas
    • Interscholastic League Advisory Council mm. Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program Advisory Board
    • Judicial Commission for Children, Youth, and Families, Permanent
    • Judicial Council, Texas
    • Legislative Audit Committee (State Auditor)
    • Legislative Budget Board
    • Legislative Library Board
    • Mathematics and Science Advisory Board, Texas Academy of
    • Oil and Gas Regulation and Cleanup Fund Advisory Committee
    • Partnership Advisory Commission
    • Poet Laureate, State Musician, and State Artists Committee, Texas
    • Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board
    • Preservation Board, State
    • Preservation Trust Fund Advisory Board, Texas
    • Primary Care Residency Advisory Committee
    • Property Value Study Advisory Committee, Comptroller's
    • Rural Health and Economic Development Advisory Council, Texas
    • Small Business Assistance Advisory Task Force, Office of
    • Small Business Compliance Assistance Advisory Panel
    • Sunset Advisory Commission
    • Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee
    • Transportation Advisory Committee, Public
    • Water Implementation Fund for Texas Advisory Committee, State
    • Windstorm Insurance Legislative Oversight Board[7]
 ”

Compensation

See also: Comparison of lieutenant gubernatorial salaries and Compensation of state executive officers

The lieutenant governor, which in Texas is equivalent to president of the senate, is entitled to a fixed annual salary and a per diem pursuant to Article 3, Section 24 of the Texas Constitution.

Functionally a state senator, the lieutenant governor is compensated in the amount and manner of a legislator rather than a state executive officer. Created by constitutional amendment, the Texas State Ethics Commission sets the lieutenant governor's per diem and may recommend a higher salary than other state senators in the amounts prescribed by law.[8]

2022

In 2022, the officer's salary was $7,200, according to the Council of State Governments.[9]

2021

In 2021, the lieutenant governor received a salary of $7,200, according to the Council of State Governments.[10]

2020

In 2020, the lieutenant governor received a salary of $7,200 according to the Council of State Governments.[11]

2019

In 2019, the lieutenant governor received a salary of $7,200 according to the Council of State Governments.[12]

2018

In 2018, the lieutenant governor received a salary of $9,612 according to the Council of State Governments.[13]

2017

In 2017, the lieutenant governor received a salary of $9,612 according to the Council of State Governments.[14]

2016

In 2016, the lieutenant governor’s salary was increased to $9,612 according to the Council of State Governments.[15]

2015

In 2015, the lieutenant governor received a salary $7,200 according to the Council of State Governments.[16]

2014

In 2014, the lieutenant governor received a salary of $7,200 according to the Council of State Governments.[17]

2013

In 2013, the lieutenant governor was paid an estimated $7,200. This figure comes from the Council of State Governments.[18]

2010

In 2010, the lieutenant governor was paid $7,200, the lowest lieutenant gubernatorial salary in America at the time.

Historical officeholders

List of officeholders from 1846-Present[19]
Name Tenure Party
Albert Clinton Horton 1846-1847 Democratic Party
John Alexander Greer 1847-1851 Democratic Party
James Wilson Henderson 1851-1853 Democratic Party
David Catchings Dickson 1853-1855 Democratic Party
Hardin Richard Runnels 1855-1857 Democratic Party
Francis R. Lubbock 1857-1859 Democratic Party
Edward Clark 1859-1861 Democratic Party
John McClannahan Crockett 1861-1863 Democratic Party
Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale 1863-1865 Democratic Party
Vacant 1865-1866 -
George Washington Jones 1866-1867 Democratic Party
Vacant 1867-1870 -
James W. Flanagan elected 1869 (left office before inauguration) Republican Party
Vacant 1871-1874 -
Donald Campbell ex officio 1870-1871 Republican Party
David Webster Flanagan ex officio 1871 Republican Party
Albert Jennings Fountain ex officio 1871–1873 Republican Party
Edward Bradford Pickett ex officio 1873–1874 Democratic Party
Richard Bennett Hubbard, Jr. 1874-1876 Democratic Party
Vacant 1876-1879 -
Joseph Draper Sayers 1879-1881 Democratic Party
Leonidas Jefferson Storey 1881-1883 Democratic Party
Francis Marion Martin 1883-1885 Democratic Party
Barnett Gibbs 1885-1887 Democratic Party
Thomas Benton Wheeler 1887-1891 Democratic Party
George Cassety Pendleton 1891-1893 Democratic Party
Martin McNulty Crane 1893-1895 Democratic Party
George Taylor Jester 1895-1899 Democratic Party
James Nathan Browning 1899-1903 Democratic Party
George D. Neal 1903-1907 Democratic Party
Asbury Bascom Davidson 1907-1913 Democratic Party
William Harding Mayes 1913-1915 Democratic Party
William Pettus Hobby, Sr. 1915-1917 Democratic Party
Vacant 1917-1919 -
Willard Arnold Johnson 1919-1921 Democratic Party
Lynch Davidson 1921-1923 Democratic Party
Thomas Whitfield Davidson 1923-1925 Democratic Party
Barry Miller 1925- 1931 Democratic Party
Edgar E. Witt 1931-1935 Democratic Party
Walter Frank Woodul 1935-1939 Democratic Party
Coke Robert Stevenson 1939-1941 Democratic Party
Vacant 1941-1943 -
John Lee Smith 1943-1947 Democratic Party
Robert Allan Shivers 1947-1949 Democratic Party
Vacant 1949-1951 -
Ben Ramsey 1951-1963 Democratic Party
Preston Earnest Smith 1963-1969 Democratic Party
Ben Barnes 1969-1973 Democratic Party
William Pettus Hobby, Jr. 1973-1991 Democratic Party
Bob Bullock 1991-1999 Democratic Party
Rick Perry 1999-2000 Republican Party
Bill Ratliff 2000-2003 Republican Party
David Dewhurst 2003-2015 Republican Party
Dan Patrick 2015-present Republican Party

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Contact information

Office of the Lieutenant Governor
P.O. Box 12068
Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: (512) 463-0001

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lieutenant Governor of Texas, "About," accessed January 21, 2021
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Texas State Legislature, "Article 4," accessed January 21, 2021
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Texas State Legislature, "Texas State Constitution," accessed January 21, 2021
  4. ↑ THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION, "ARTICLE 4. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT," accessed December 14, 2021
  5. ↑ Texas State Historical Association, "LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR," accessed January 21, 2021
  6. ↑ National Lieutenant Governors Association, "Texas Office of Lt. Governor Statutory Duties," accessed January 21, 2021
  7. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  8. ↑ Texas State Historical Association, "SALARIES OF STATE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS," accessed January 21, 2021
  9. ↑ Council of State Governments, "Book of the States 2022 Table 4.11: Selected State Administrative Officials: Annual Salaries," provided to Ballotpedia by CSG personnel
  10. ↑ Issuu, "The Book of the States 2021," accessed September 28, 2022
  11. ↑ Council of State Governments, "The Book of the States 2020," accessed January 21, 2021
  12. ↑ Council of State Governments, "The Book of the States 2019," accessed January 21, 2021
  13. ↑ Council of State Governments, "The Book of the States 2018," accessed January 21, 2021
  14. ↑ Council of State Governments, "The Book of the States 2017," accessed January 21, 2021
  15. ↑ Council of State Governments, "Selected State Administrative Officials: Annual Salaries, 2016," accessed August 27, 2016
  16. ↑ Council of State Governments, "Selected State Administrative Officials: Annual Salaries, 2015," accessed August 27, 2016
  17. ↑ Council of State Governments, "Selected State Administrative Officials: Annual Salaries," accessed December 8, 2014
  18. ↑ Council of State Governments, "Selected State Administrative Officials: Annual Salaries," January 28, 2014
  19. ↑ Texas State Library and Archives Commission, "Lieutenant Governors of Texas," accessed January 21, 2021
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