Kevin Eltife
| Kevin Paul Eltife | |
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| Member of the Texas Senate from the 1st district |
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| Assumed office March 5, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Ratliff |
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| Born | March 1, 1959 Smith County, Texas |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Kelly |
| Residence | Tyler, Smith County, Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Profession | Owner, Eltife Properties |
Kevin Paul Eltife (born March 1, 1959)[1] is a businessman from Tyler, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas Senate. He was sworn in on March 5, 2004, as a result of a special election to represent District 1. Eltife defeated Paul Sadler in the special election; in 2012, Sadler was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee against Ted Cruz for one of the two Texas seats in the United States Senate. The position opened when Senator and former Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant resigned with less than a year remaining in his Senate term.
Eltife is considered one of the most liberal of the nineteen (as of 2013) Texas Senate Republicans, along with Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, Kel Seliger of Amarillo, Bob Deuell of Greenville, and John Carona of Dallas, according to an analysis by Mark P. Jones of the political science department at Rice University in Houston. Jones also found that these Republicans saw passage of 90 percent of the bills for which they voted.[2] Of these five senators, Deuell lost a runoff election on May 27, 2014, and Carona was narrowly defeated for re-nomination on March 4.[3] Duncan, meanwhile, resigned from the Senate to become chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.
Eltife is a former mayor of Tyler and a former member of the Tyler City Council.
Eltife will not seek reelection to the Senate in the primary election scheduled for March 1, 2016.[4] Two area state representatives, Bryan Hughes of District 5, based in Mineola, and David Simpson of District 7, center about Longview, will seek the Republican nomination to succeed Eltife. Hughes carries the backing of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the presiding officer of the state Senate.[5]
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Election history
Most recent election
2006
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Kevin P. Eltife | 109,450 | 83.13 | +14.96 | |
| Libertarian | Jason Albers | 22,211 | 16.87 | +16.87 | |
| Majority | 87,239 | 66.26 | +29.92 | ||
| Turnout | 131,661 | -21.23 | |||
| Republican hold | |||||
Previous elections
2004
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Kevin Eltife | 46,437 | 51.86 | [8]+15.85 | |
| Democratic | Paul Sadler | 43,103 | 48.14 | +8.63 | |
| Majority | 3,334 | 3.72 | |||
| Turnout | 89,540 | [8]+29.38 | |||
| Republican hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Kevin Eltife | 24,919 | 36.01 | ||
| Republican | Bill Godsey | 502 | 0.73 | ||
| Republican | Tommy Merritt | 14,786 | 21.36 | ||
| Democratic | Paul Sadler | 27,339 | 39.50 | ||
| Constitution | Daryl Ware[10] | 480 | 0.69 | ||
| Republican | Jerry Yost | 1,180 | 1.71 | ||
| Turnout | 69,206 | ||||
References
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- Senate of Texas - Senator Kevin Eltife official TX Senate website
- Project Vote Smart - Senator Kevin P. Eltife (TX) profile
- Follow the Money - Kevin Eltife
- 2006 campaign contributions
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| Preceded by | Texas State Senator from District 1 (Tyler) 2004 |
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