Texas Weekly List: Legislative Candidate Filings

There's just one more full weekend left before the filing period to get on the March primary election ballot ends.

Since last week, the basic shape of the primary election has come into sharper focus. By our reckoning, only one race has yet to have anyone file. That's in Bexar County's HD-116 where people are waiting to hear from the incumbent, Trey Martinez Fischer, on what his future plans entail.

He's promised a special announcement on Sunday, the day before the filing period closes.

Elsewhere, Austin Democratic state Rep. Elliott Naishtat injected some uncertainty into the safely Democratic HD-49 when he announced on Thursday that he's changed his mind and won't seek re-election. So far, we've seen three contenders file for the Democratic contest — Gina Hinojosa, Huey Rey Fischer and Matthew Shrum.

While Naishtat remains on the ballot for the time being, we have removed him for our list as he's declared his intent to withdraw his name.

We'll update the list next week with what should be a finalized lineup for the respective party primaries.

Here's the candidate filings for the Texas House:

^{Sources: Texas Secretary of State, Republican Party of Texas, Texas Weekly Research}

And here's the candidate filings for the Texas Senate:

^{Sources: Texas Secretary of State, Republican Party of Texas, Texas Weekly Research}