Bryan Hughes

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First elected to the Texas Senate in 2016. Current term expires January 2027. Running for re-election in the 2026 Republican primary.
 
Served as a state representative for Texas House District 5 from 2002 to 2017. Hughes defeated fellow Rep. David Simpson in a Republican primary runoff election on May 24, 2016, for this  Senate seat. Facing no opposition in November, Hughes won the seat for an initial term that began in January 2017. 

Endorsed in the 2022 Republican primary election by the Texas Home School Coalition, which supports using public funds for private and home-schools, giving private and home-schooled students greater access to public education services, and limiting state oversight of private and home schools. Hughes also received the group's endorsement in the 2020 and 2016 elections. 

Endorsed in the 2016 Republican primary election by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (Empower Texans), a group that has supported budget cuts and limiting state spending on public education; eliminating educators' and other public employees' rights to use payroll deduction for payment of their voluntary dues to professional organizations; private school vouchers; and privatizing the management of existing public schools. 

Endorsed in the 2016 Republican primary election by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R).