Huffines’ Lead Over Eckhardt Narrows in Texas Comptroller Race
ActiVote’s October 29, 2026 Texas Comptroller poll finds that Republican Don Huffines leads Democrat Sarah Eckhardt by 9.4%. The poll was in the field between October 18 and October 29 (median field date of October 24). The poll was among 400 likely midterm voters and has an average expected error of 4.9%.
Huffines leads among rural and suburban voters, voters 50 and older, men, White voters, voters on middle and high incomes, and voters with a college education or a graduate degree. Eckhardt leads among urban voters, voters under 30, women, Black and Latino voters, voters on low incomes and voters with a high school education. Voters aged 30 to 49 are evenly split. These group figures rest on subsamples for which the expected error is considerably larger than the 4.9% for the poll as a whole. Texas does not register voters by party, so we do not report a breakdown by party affiliation.
Compared with our October 17 poll, Huffines’ lead narrowed from 12.0% to 9.4%.
Political Spectrum
The following graph shows the support for Huffines and Eckhardt among left, moderate left, center, moderate right, and right voters. These groups are defined by splitting the Texas electorate in 5 equal sized groups of 20% each.
Eckhardt wins the left virtually unanimously (100%), against 99% of the right for Huffines, but Huffines holds the moderates more firmly: he takes 95% of the moderate right, while Eckhardt takes 88% of the moderate left. Huffines also wins the center, by 66% to 34%.
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 | 400 LV | Unweighted | Weighted | Don Huffines | Sarah Eckhardt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | ±4.9% MoE | 100% | 100% | 54.7% | 45.3% |
| Political Spectrum | Left | 30% | 20% | 0% | 100% |
| Moderate Left | 25% | 20% | 12% | 88% | |
| Center | 13% | 20% | 66% | 34% | |
| Moderate Right | 20% | 20% | 95% | 5% | |
| Right | 12% | 20% | 99% | 1% | |
| Region | rural | 26% | 30% | 70% | 30% |
| suburban | 31% | 27% | 54% | 46% | |
| urban | 43% | 42% | 44% | 56% | |
| Age | 18-29 | 27% | 17% | 36% | 64% |
| 30-49 | 41% | 29% | 50% | 50% | |
| 50-64 | 21% | 23% | 59% | 41% | |
| 65+ | 11% | 30% | 67% | 33% | |
| Gender | F | 48% | 53% | 45% | 55% |
| M | 52% | 47% | 66% | 34% | |
| Ethnicity | White | 61% | 60% | 67% | 33% |
| Black | 8% | 8% | 14% | 86% | |
| Latino | 27% | 27% | 45% | 55% | |
| Income | Low | 25% | 21% | 47% | 53% |
| Middle | 34% | 26% | 55% | 45% | |
| High | 41% | 53% | 57% | 43% | |
| Education | HS | 21% | 22% | 47% | 53% |
| College | 71% | 64% | 56% | 44% | |
| Grad | 8% | 14% | 61% | 39% |