1988Flipped from DemocraticFinal results
1988 election for Texas Senate District 31
Texas State Senate · Texas
Teel Bivins (R) won with 61.2% of the vote, defeating Mel Phillips (D) by 22.3 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Teel BivinsRepublican · winner
61.2%94,701
Mel PhillipsDemocrat
38.8%60,124
154,825 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1988
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET