The Texas Politics Project

Spreading the Power Around

Office	Number States Electing	Texas
Governor	50
Lieutenant Governor	42
Attorney General	43
Treasurer	37	a
Secretary of State	36
Auditor	25
Education Commissioner/Superintendent	15
Comptroller	13
Agriculture Commissioner	12
Board of Education	7	b
Insurance Commissioner	6
Land Commissioner	5
Labor Commissioner	5
Railroad Commissioner	1	c
Adjutant General	1
Texas   Source: Derived from The Book of the States, 2002 (Lexington, Ky: the Council of State Governments, 2000), pp.161-8.   a Function of elected office of Treasurer, abolished in 1995, shifted to Comptroller.   b State Board of Education's fifteen members are elected by districts.   c Three Railroad Commission members are elected statewide to staggered terms.

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