The 2016 Texas Senate elections took place as part of the
biennial United States elections
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. Texas voters elected state senators in 16 of the 31 state senate districts. The winners of this election served in the
85th Texas Legislature. State senators serve four-year terms in the Texas State Senate. A statewide map of Texas's state Senate districts can be obtained from the Texas Legislative Counci
here and individual district maps can be obtained from the U.S. Censu
Following the 2014 State Senate elections, the
Republicans
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maintained effective control of the Senate with twenty members to the
Democrats' eleven.
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to gain five Senate seats. While the statewide popular vote for this class of Senators swung 8.6 percentage points toward the Democrats when compared to the vote they earned in the
2012 elections
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, both parties retained the eight seats each was defending.
Summary of race results
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