Federal candidate · 2019–2020 cycle · past cycle

Pete Sessions

Official portrait of Pete Sessions
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Texas’s 17th district
Party
Republican
Hometown
Waco, TX
Born
1955
In Congress
House since 1997 · 27 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
SESSIONS, PETE
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 17

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

RepublicanU.S. House · Texas District 17Open seatGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H2TX03126 · Principal campaign committee: PETE SESSIONS FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Texas District 17$1,282,319.64General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · Texas District 17$1,243,303.06Won the general election (66.35%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Texas District 17$1,001,775.53General-election nominee
2019–2020U.S. House · Texas District 17$1,485,908.61General-election nominee
Total raised$1,485,908.61
Total spent$1,696,588.07
Cash on hand$165,989.81
Debts owed by the campaign$140,000.00
Loans from the candidate$140,000.00

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: $716,783.42PACs and other committees: $583,090.75Party committees: $5,000.00Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans): $140,000.00Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $41,034.44
  • Individual contributions$716,783.4248%
  • PACs and other committees$583,090.7539%
  • Party committees$5,000.000%
  • Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans)$140,000.009%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$41,034.443%

Self-funding: $140,000.00 (9% of money raised): $0.00 given and $140,000.00 lent by the candidate.

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

168 committees reported giving $574,909.00 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 Pete Sessions$46,170.53
  • Independent expenditures opposing Pete Sessions$269.66
  • Company and union communications to members about Pete Sessions$15,351.10

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 17, 2020 · 16 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Pete Sessions (R)$1,485,908.61$165,989.812020-12-31
Renee Swann (R)$1,082,996.00$0.002020-09-11
George W. Hindman (R)$877,767.41$0.002020-12-31
Bill Flores (R)$415,115.87$109,456.552020-12-31
Elianor-Azarak Vessali (R)$296,588.23$0.002020-03-31
Richard Kennedy (D)$216,825.56$0.002020-11-23
Scott Bland (R)$181,705.70$0.002020-04-11
Jeffrey Oppenheim (R)$125,710.85$0.002019-12-31
Trent Gregory Sutton (R)$110,964.00$253.612020-12-31
Charles Todd Kent (R)$40,360.00−$3,507.142020-12-31

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportSafe ROctober 21, 2020
  • FiveThirtyEightSolid ROctober 30, 2020
  • Inside ElectionsSafe ROctober 28, 2020
  • Sabato's Crystal BallOctober 20, 2020
  • PoliticoLikely ROctober 11, 2020
  • Daily KosSafe RApril 29, 2020
  • RCPOctober 30, 2020
  • 270toWinOctober 29, 2020

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
Lincoln Park Strategies (D)August 22–23, 20201,160 (LV)± 4.38%Pete Sessions 45% · Rick Kennedy 42%

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: PETE SESSIONS 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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