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Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin

Also published as Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas, The Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

Research draft
Polls since 2024
7
Latest poll ended
August 13, 2026

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.

The Texas Politics Project describes itself as a nonpartisan hub of research, education and public affairs work at the University of Texas at Austin, run as a project of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services in the College of Liberal Arts and of the Department of Government.1 Its about page names James Henson as founder and executive director and Joshua Blank as research director, and says Henson co-founded its statewide poll with Daron Shaw in 2008.1 It says it conducts regular nonpartisan statewide polls of registered Texas voters, and the methodology statements in its releases and data archive say YouGov interviews the respondents, usually about 1,200 per wave.2,3,4

Kind
Academic1

§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.

Part of

  • University of Texas at Austin. Its about page calls it a project of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, a unit of the university's College of Liberal Arts, and of the Department of Government.1

News partners

  • The Texas Tribune (2009–2021). The Texas Tribune's series page for University of Texas/Texas Tribune polls describes statewide surveys conducted several times a year since 2009 with University of Texas pollsters, and its latest entries are dated November 2021.5

Fieldwork or panel by

  • YouGov. Its June 2026 poll release says the data were collected by YouGov over the internet, and the methodology statements in its data archive say YouGov interviewed the respondents.3,4

Founded by

  • James Henson (2008). Its about page calls James Henson the founder of the Texas Politics Project and says he co-founded its poll with Daron Shaw in 2008.1
  • Daron Shaw (2008). Its about page says Daron Shaw co-founded the poll with James Henson in 2008.1

Led by

  • James Henson. Its about page names James Henson as executive director, and he and research director Joshua Blank are the bylined authors of its June 2026 poll release.1,4

Published with

Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.

  • The Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin/YouGov: YouGov · 5 polls listed
  • Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas/YouGov: YouGov · 2 polls listed

§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.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Its about and polling pages describe its statewide polls as nonpartisan; this rests on its own description.1,2

Of its 7 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.

§4Its polls

The 7 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
August 5–August 13, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGreg Abbott 45 · Gina Hinojosa 40 · Pat Dixon 3YouGov1,218 RV
August 5–August 13, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 42 · Ken Paxton 39 · Ted Brown 3YouGov1,218 RV
June 5–June 12, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGreg Abbott 47 · Gina Hinojosa 40YouGov1,200 RV
June 5–June 12, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasKen Paxton 43 · James Talarico 42YouGov1,200 RV
April 10–April 20, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGreg Abbott 44 · Gina Hinojosa 38YouGov1,200 RV
February 2–February 16, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas RepublicanKen Paxton 36 · John Cornyn 34 · Wesley Hunt 26YouGov350 LV
February 2–February 16, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas DemocraticJasmine Crockett 56 · James Talarico 44 · Ahmad Hassan 0YouGov369 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • No founding year for the Project itself was found; its about page dates the start of its polling to 2008.
  • No announcement of when the Texas Tribune series ended was found; the end year rests on the latest entries on the Tribune's series page, and its 2026 releases name no co-sponsor.
  • No funding sources for the poll were found on the pages read.
  • On 2026-11-06 AAPOR's statements list (five pages), FiftyPlusOne's August 2026 notice suspending pollsters and web searches for court cases, regulator actions, aggregator statements and retractions or corrections naming the Texas Politics Project or the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll found none; the Texas Tribune's corrections log shows a routine fix to the field dates in a 2021 story on the poll, listed under pointers.