Federal candidate · 2019–2020 cycle · past cycle

John R. Carter

Official portrait of John R. Carter
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Texas’s 31st district
Party
Republican
Hometown
Round Rock, TX
Born
1941
In Congress
House since 2003 · 23 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
CARTER, JOHN R. REP.
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 31

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

RepublicanU.S. House · Texas District 31IncumbentGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H2TX31044 · Principal campaign committee: JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Texas District 31$1,522,249.68General-election nominee
2023–2024U.S. House · Texas District 31$1,217,908.23Won the general election (64.5%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Texas District 31$1,339,836.16General-election nominee
2019–2020U.S. House · Texas District 31$2,168,867.75General-election nominee
Total raised$2,168,867.75
Total spent$2,223,167.18
Cash on hand$200,405.54
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: $1,074,706.50PACs and other committees: $939,050.00Party committees: $250.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $148,878.76Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $5,982.49
  • Individual contributions$1,074,706.5050%
  • PACs and other committees$939,050.0043%
  • Party committees$250.000%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$148,878.767%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$5,982.490%

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

315 committees reported giving $921,267.00 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.

Show all 315 committees

Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting John R. Rep. Carter$88,134.75
  • Independent expenditures opposing John R. Rep. Carter$18,743.20

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 31, 2020 · 13 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
John R. Rep. Carter (R)$2,168,867.75$200,405.542020-12-31
Donna Imam (D)$1,242,168.22−$50.002020-12-31
Christine Eady Mann (D)$387,965.58$16,224.382020-12-31
Dan Janjigian (D)$138,293.05$0.002020-07-10
Tammy Young (D)$114,296.49$0.002020-03-31
Eric Hanke (D)$97,892.83$0.002020-07-15
Murray A Holcomb (D)$86,610.98$0.002019-12-31
Michael Howard Williams (R)$59,078.58−$2,124.332020-12-31
Michael Edward Grimes (D)$18,600.00−$14,819.182020-04-13
Jeremy John Bravo (D)$9,470.00$0.002019-09-30

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportLean RNovember 2, 2020
  • FiveThirtyEightLikely R
  • Inside ElectionsSafe R
  • Sabato's Crystal BallLikely R
  • PoliticoLean R
  • Daily KosLikely R

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
Public Policy Polling (D)August 26–27, 2020831 (V)–John Carter 43% · Donna Imam 37% · Clark Patterson 7% · Jeremy Bravo 3%
Public Policy Polling (D)Sep 19–21, 2019523 (LV) – 656 (LV)± 3.8% – ± 4.2%Generic Republican 51% · Generic Democrat 44%

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: JOHN CARTER 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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