Federal candidate · 2019–2020 cycle · past cycle

Wesley Hunt

Official portrait of Wesley Hunt
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Texas’s 38th district
Party
Republican
Hometown
Houston, TX
Born
1981
In Congress
House since 2023 · 3 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
HUNT, WESLEY
Next election
General November 3, 2020 (Wikipedia, checked October 23, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Texas with the current district highlighted

Texas, District 38

Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0) and the House Clerk, retrieved October 23, 2026.

RepublicanU.S. House · Texas District 7ChallengerGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H0TX07170 · Principal campaign committee: HUNT FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Texas District 38$2,154,467.93Not running (declined to run)
2023–2024U.S. House · Texas District 38$2,777,569.46Won the general election (62.73%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Texas District 38$5,831,956.81General-election nominee
2019–2020U.S. House · Texas District 7$7,611,866.36General-election nominee
Total raised$7,611,866.36
Total spent$7,387,924.47
Cash on hand$223,941.89
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2019–2020 cycle totals through December 31, 2020, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $6,579,356.80PACs and other committees: $434,900.00Party committees: $5,000.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $582,740.66Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $9,868.90
  • Individual contributions$6,579,356.8086%
  • PACs and other committees$434,900.006%
  • Party committees$5,000.000%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$582,740.668%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$9,868.900%

Raised and spent over time

Report-by-report history is shown for the current cycle.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

146 committees reported giving $487,766.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through December 29, 2024. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Wesley Hunt$1,089,214.75
  • Independent expenditures opposing Wesley Hunt$1,434,284.81
  • Company and union communications to members about Wesley Hunt$916.23

FEC totals for the 2020 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Texas U.S. House, District 7, 2020 · 10 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Wesley Hunt (R)$7,611,866.36$223,941.892020-12-31
Elizabeth Fletcher (D)$6,405,639.24$61,096.652020-12-31
Cynthia Siegel (R)$757,577.04$25.402020-03-31
Maria Espinoza (R)$244,794.15$0.002020-06-30
James Noteware (R)$87,594.48$1,550.072020-12-31
Laique Rehman (R)$21,000.00$0.002020-04-10
Kyle Preston (R)$1,000.00$1,000.002019-12-31

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportLikely DNovember 2, 2020
  • FiveThirtyEightLean D
  • Inside ElectionsLikely D
  • PoliticoLean D
  • Daily KosLikely D
  • RCPLean D
  • 270toWinLikely D

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
GS Strategy Group (R)October 13–15, 2020400 (LV)± 4.9%Lizzie Pannill Fletcher 46% · Wesley Hunt 44% · Shawn Kelly 3%
Remington Research Group (R)March 4–5, 20201,044 (LV)± 3%Lizzie Pannill Fletcher 45% · Wesley Hunt 45%
TargetPoint Consulting (R)August 10–11, 2019336 (LV)± 5.3%Lizzie Pannill Fletcher 43% · Wesley Hunt 45%
Remington Research Group (R)Mar 4–5, 20201,044 (LV)± 3%Lizzie Pannill Fletcher 42% · Generic Opponent 41%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas (retrieved October 23, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: HUNT FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 23, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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