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University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs
Also published as University of Houston.
- Polls since 2024
- 13
- Latest poll ended
- January 31, 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 Hobby School of Public Affairs is part of the University of Houston; its About page says it was established in 2016, building on the Center for Public Policy founded at the university in 1981, and is named for former Texas Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby and his family.2 Its dean page names Jim Granato as dean, and its February 2026 Texas primaries report names Renee Cross, its senior executive director, and Mark P. Jones, a Rice University Baker Institute fellow and senior research fellow at the school, as primary investigators.3,
§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 Houston. Its About page describes the Hobby School as a school of the University of Houston.2
Polls jointly with
- Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University (2021–now). Its Texas Trends page describes a five-year survey project, begun in 2021, run with the Executive Master of Public Administration program in the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.5
Fieldwork or panel by
Led by
Published with
Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.
- University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs/Texas Southern University School of Public Affairs: Texas Southern University School of Public Affairs · 6 polls listed
- University of Houston/YouGov: YouGov · 3 polls listed
- University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs/YouGov: YouGov · 2 polls listed
- University of Houston/Texas Southern University: Texas Southern University School of Public Affairs · 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.
Doesn’t say whom it works for. The Hobby School pages and reports read do not say whether it works for candidates or parties; its Texas Trends page says the project aims to give decision-makers objective data.2,
Of its 13 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.
§4Record against results
Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.
From FiveThirtyEight's final public data7,
| Published as | Polls | Elections | Average miss | Relative to other polls | Typical size of miss | 538's last rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2.2 of 3 |
ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.
§5Its polls
§6What we looked for and didn't find
- No standing news partner was found on the pages read.
- No funder or outside sponsor was named for the 2025 Texas Trends survey or the February 2026 primaries survey on the pages read.
- A DocumentCloud copy of a 2026 election report returned HTTP 403 and was not read.
- Searches for AAPOR statements, court cases, regulator actions, aggregator exclusion statements and retractions found nothing naming the school; criticism of its question wording by advocacy writers was found, but that is commentary and not a finding.