2026 Texas Attorney General election

Candidates Advanced to runoff • Mayes Middleton, state senator from the 11th district (2023–present) • Chip Roy, U.S. representative from (2019–present) Eliminated in primary • Joan Huffman, state senator from the 17th district (2008–present) • Aaron Reitz, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy (2025) (endorsed Middleton in the runoff) Withdrawn • John Bash, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas (2017–2020) Declined • Brian Harrison, state representative from the 10th district (2021–present) and candidate for in 2021 (running for re-election) • Bryan Hughes, state senator from the 1st district (2017–present) • Eric Johnson, mayor of Dallas (2019–present) • Mitch Little, state representative from the 65th district (2025–present) (running for re-election) • Ken Paxton, incumbent attorney general (running for U.S. Senate, endorsed Reitz) • Matt Rinaldi, former chair of the Texas Republican Party (2021–2024) and former state representative from the 115th district (2015–2019) Endorsements Fundraising Debates and forums Polling Results Runoff Polling Results ==Democratic primary==

Candidates Advanced to runoff • Joe Jaworski, former mayor of Galveston, grandson of former U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Leon Jaworski, and candidate for attorney general in 2022 • Nathan Johnson, state senator from the 16th district (2019–present) Eliminated in primary • Tony Box, attorney Declined • Joaquin Castro, U.S. representative from Texas's 20th congressional district (2013–present) (running for re-election) • Jasmine Crockett, U.S. representative from Texas’s 30th congressional district (2023–present) (ran for U.S. Senate) • Roland Gutierrez, state senator from the 19th district (2021–present) and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2024 (running for re-election) • Justin Nelson, partner at Susman Godfrey and nominee for attorney general in 2018 Endorsements Fundraising Debates and forums Polling Results == Third-party and independent candidates ==

Candidates Declared • Tom Oxford (Libertarian), attorney and perennial candidate == General election ==

Predictions Polling Generic Republican vs. generic Democrat ==Notes==