Ken Paxton

Republican · On the Nov 3 ballot for US Senate, Texas
Background: State legislator · Attorney

Raised: $22.3M
Cash on hand: $4.8M
Age: 63

What changed

Newest first

Oct 14
MONEYTexas Senate
Ken Paxton reported $22.3M raised, $4.8M cash on hand
FEC, through Oct 14

All changes

Now

US Senate, Texas · Tue, Nov 3
Ted Brown LibertarianKen Paxton RepublicanJames Talarico Democratic
Newest poll
Talarico 52.1, Paxton 47.9 · ActiVote, Oct 28, 2026 · polls as of Oct 30, 2026, from VoteHub

Career

On the 2026 ballot for US Senate TX, status certified.

Money

FEC, through Oct 14, 2026

Spent $17.5M · Debts owed $0

Reports through Oct 14, 2026. Matched to the FEC by name, party and seat, so it could be the wrong person.

How these are counted

Later filings are not in yet. Totals for the 2025 to 2026 cycle, not the six-year figures fec.gov shows for senators. Raised $22,327,474. Cash on hand $4,784,408. Spent $17,543,066. Debts owed $0. Main committee: Ken Paxton for Senate. No donor names are shown.

More about Ken Paxton

Background

State legislator
Attorney

Sources: Campaign site, Wikidata

Official pages (1 link)

This candidate on fec.govfec.gov

Sources (4 sources)

Ballot listing, sos.state.tx.us
Name, party, office and status. Retrieved Aug 28, 2026.
FEC bulk data 2025-2026: all-candidates summary (weball26), candidate master (cn), candidate-committee linkage (ccl), committee master (cm)
Federal 2026 candidates: money totals (web/data/people/money) and the MN federal filing list. Bulk files, no API and no key. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain. Totals and committee names only; no donor names or addresses are stored.
Election Wrld 2026 candidate files (state election office lists)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: state public records; see each row's sourceUrl.
FEC candidate master file (cnYY.zip bulk download)
Race record. Retrieved Oct 29, 2026. License: US government work, public domain.

Age: Wikidata, counted to Nov 3, 2026. A community-edited source, not an official record. We show the age, never the birth date.

Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.

Not available for Ken Paxton: an ideology score.

DataSources: FEC, Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026Photo credits