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Hunt Research

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 1
Latest poll ended: October 10, 2025

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

According to CBS News Texas, Hunt Research is a Republican polling and data firm in Dallas whose principal is Ross Hunt, and it was not affiliated with any campaign in the 2026 Texas Republican Senate primary, which it polled in October 2025.¹ A University of Texas at Austin event page says Ross Hunt has more than 15 years in survey research, data analytics and campaign management, co-founded what it calls the largest political consulting firm in Texas, and is founding Hunt Research to offer survey tools, voter scoring and audience building to candidates, committees, causes and companies.²

Kind: Commercial firm^1,2

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Founded by

Ross Hunt. A University of Texas at Austin event page says Ross Hunt is founding Hunt Research.²

Led by

Ross Hunt. CBS News Texas identifies Ross Hunt as the principal of Hunt Research.¹

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Doesn’t say whom it works for. No website or client list of its own was found, and the event page describing its founding names no clients or party; CBS News Texas called it a Republican polling and data firm, but that description is the outlet's, not the firm's.^1,2

Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor³.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 4 federal committees reported paying Hunt Research $20,252 for polling, surveys or research^4,5,6,7. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 4 Republican, and 0 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

The largest payers, by amount paid for polling, surveys or research. Only federal committees report to the FEC; state and local campaigns, work paid through another consultant, and polling billed as consulting are not here. Matched by the payee name on the filing: HUNT RESEARCH; HUNT RESEARCH LLC.
Committee	Kind	Party it reports	Paid for polling	Between
COMMANDER JAY FURMAN FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$13,533	September 10, 2024
CONSERVATIVE TOM SELL FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$3,000	May 20, 2026
MONICA FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$2,000	August 20, 2025
AUGUST PFLUGER FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$1,719	November 5, 2025

§4Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	With	Paid for by	Sample
October 6–October 10, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas Republican	Ken Paxton 28 · John Cornyn 24 · Wesley Hunt 19			1,097 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

No website for the firm was found (huntresearch.com redirects to a domain sale listing), so there is no description in its own words.
No founding year was found; the event page says only that Ross Hunt is founding the firm.
The event page does not name the Texas consulting firm Ross Hunt co-founded, so no earlier affiliation is recorded.
No ownership, news partners, clients, co-pollsters or fieldwork vendors were found.
Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.