Charles Holcomb, Incumbent Libertarian Dave Howard Legislative elections Sixteen Texas Senate seats and all 150 Texas House of Representatives seats are up for election in 2006. The senators and representatives elected in 2006 will serve in the Eightieth Texas Legislature, while the senators will also serve in the Eighty-first Texas Legislature. Texas Senate Fifteen of the sixteen elections for the Texas Senate are contested to some extent. In the District 3 race, Robert Nichols won his Republican primary and will be unopposed in the fall election. There will be at least five new members of the Senate. These current senators will not return: Texas House of Representatives In the Texas House of Representatives, 118 of the 150 seats will be contested in the November 2006 election. Thirty races will be uncontested after the primary elections on 7 March 2006; the remaining two will be determined in the primary runoffs on 11 April 2006. There will be at least 20 new members of the House of Representatives. Two Democratic and five Republican incumbents were defeated in the primaries. These current representatives will not return: State Board of Education Only contested elections are listed. Member, State Board of Education, District 3 Republican Tony Cunningham Democrat Rick Agosto Member, State Board of Education, District 5 Republican Ken Mercer Libertarian Bill Oliver Member, State Board of Education, District 9 Republican Don McLeroy, Incumbent Democrat Maggie Charleton Member, State Board of Education, District 10 Republican Cynthia Dunbar Libertarian Martin Thomen Member, State Board of Education, District 12 Republican Geraldine "Tincy" Miller, Incumbent Libertarian Matthew Havener Member, State Board of Education, District 15 Republican Bob Craig, Incumbent Libertarian Brandon Stacker Courts of Appeal District elections Only contested elections are listed. 1st Court of Appeals District Place 9 Republican Elsa Alcala, Incumbent Democrat Jim Sharp 3rd Court of Appeals District Place 2 Republican Alan Waldrop, Incumbent Democrat Jim Sybert Coronado Place 5 Republican David Puryear, Incumbent Democrat Mina A. Brees Place 6 Republican Bob Pemberton, Incumbent Democrat Bree Buchanan 4th Court of Appeals District Place 3 Republican Rebecca Simmons, Incumbent Democrat Richard Garcia, Jr. Place 4 Republican Steve Hilbig Democrat Dan Pozza Place 5 Republican Karen Angelini, Incumbent Democrat Lauro A. Bustamante Place 7 Republican Phylis Speedlin, Incumbent Democrat Eddie DeLaGarza 6th Court of Appeals District Place 2 Republican Bailey C. Moseley Democrat Ben Franks 13th Court of Appeals District Place 2 Democrat Federico "Fred" Hinojosa, Incumbent