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Ballot facts
- Name as listed
- Greg Abbott
- Office
- Governor of Texas
- Party
- Republican (as listed by the state)
- Seat
- Incumbent running · current governor: Greg Abbott
- Election
- November 3, 2026 general
- Website
- Website: www.gregabbott.com
- Candidate list
- Texas Secretary of State — 2026 Ballot Certification (Aug. 28, 2026)
Stated positions
Paraphrased neutrally from the candidate’s own published materials. Each statement is attributed (“says…”) and cited. We do not evaluate the feasibility or accuracy of promises. Every candidate in this race is summarized the same way. How we compile these.
| Topic | Summary of stated position | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Property taxes | Proposes letting voters decide whether to abolish school district property taxes, with the state funding schools instead. | Campaign website — gregabbott.com/policy Accessed October 23, 2026 |
| Appraisals | Proposes appraising properties only once every five years and extending the appraisal cap to all properties. | Campaign website — gregabbott.com/policy Accessed October 23, 2026 |
| Local spending | Proposes limiting local government spending growth to population plus inflation or 3.5%, whichever is lower. | Campaign website — gregabbott.com/policy Accessed October 23, 2026 |
| Health care | Proposes capping co-pays and lowering insurance premiums. | Campaign website — gregabbott.com/policy Accessed October 23, 2026 |
Attributed to the candidate; not verified or evaluated by SaveYourState. Candidates can request a correction by pointing to their own published materials.
Campaign finance
Not yet compiled. Candidates for governor report to Texas’s state campaign-finance office, not the FEC. Their reports are public on the official Texas campaign-finance search.
Record in office
- Texas officeholder page on this site, with bills sponsored in the Texas Legislature where available (Open States data, matched by exact name within the state and checked by hand).
Sources
- Candidate list: Texas Secretary of State — 2026 Ballot Certification (Aug. 28, 2026) — retrieved October 23, 2026
- Campaign website — gregabbott.com/policy — retrieved October 23, 2026
- Photo: NASA Johnson Space Center / NASA-JSC/ROBERT MARKOWITZ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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- Texas campaign-finance search (official)