Federal candidate · 2025–2026 cycle

Eric Flores

Party
Republican
Running for
U.S. House · Texas District 34
Filing address
San Benito, TX (city and state on the FEC filing)
FEC filing name
FLORES, ERIC
Next election
Primary March 3, 2026 · General November 3, 2026 (Wikipedia, checked October 22, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Texas with the 2026 district highlighted

Texas, District 34

RepublicanU.S. House · Texas District 34ChallengerGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H6TX34080 · Principal campaign committee: ERIC FLORES FOR CONGRESS

Total raised$4,009,073.67
Total spent$3,759,621.40
Cash on hand$249,427.27
Debts owed by the campaign$668,649.11
Loans from the candidate$576,500.00

2025–2026 cycle totals through October 14, 2026, 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: $1,983,098.75PACs and other committees: $433,902.02Party committees: $5,000.00Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans): $577,245.31Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $1,009,788.59Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $39.00
  • Individual contributions$1,983,098.7549%
  • PACs and other committees$433,902.0211%
  • Party committees$5,000.000%
  • Candidate’s own money (contributions and loans)$577,245.3114%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$1,009,788.5925%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$39.000%

Self-funding: $577,245.31 (14% of money raised): $745.31 given and $576,500.00 lent by the candidate.

Individual money

  • Contributions of $200 or less (small-dollar, including unitemized)$950,377.7646%
  • Contributions over $200$1,129,565.8154%
  • Itemized from inside Texas$757,504.1753%
  • Itemized from other states$661,084.1047%

Top out-of-state sources of itemized individual money: Florida $141,935.85 · California $95,571.77 · Illinois $51,804.74 · New York $29,449.45 · Georgia $23,314.98. States with fewer than 10 contributions are not listed.

FEC-computed totals by contribution size and state, retrieved October 22, 2026. No individual contributor is named.

Raised and spent over time

$1.4M$0 OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $550,479.29OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $113,399.95YEAR-END: raised $321,775.14YEAR-END: spent $451,200.05PRE-PRIMARY: raised $421,963.77PRE-PRIMARY: spent $559,072.18APRIL QUARTERLY: raised $742,851.91APRIL QUARTERLY: spent $469,598.28JULY QUARTERLY: raised $716,191.18JULY QUARTERLY: spent $476,658.83OCTOBER QUARTERLY: raised $955,072.75OCTOBER QUARTERLY: spent $1,356,308.802025-092025-122026-022026-032026-062026-09

Raised per report Spent per report Cash on hand

PAC and committee contributors

94 committees reported giving $318,501.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. 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 Eric Flores$659,724.42
  • Independent expenditures opposing Eric Flores$2,628,269.51

FEC totals for the 2026 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 34, 2026 · 14 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Eric Flores (R)$4,009,073.67$249,427.272026-10-14
Vicente Gonzalez (D)$5,211,344.04$1,396,949.282026-10-14
Mayra Nohemi Flores (R)$1,410,274.27$32.482026-09-30
Charles Mandel (R)$1,002,821.43$54,686.472026-07-15
Etienne Ph.d. Rosas (D)$170,356.11$17,157.612026-03-31
Keith Allen (R)$156,626.79$0.002026-03-31
Luis F Buentello (R)$45,004.29−$1,812.102026-09-30
Alfredo Hinojosa Jr. (R)$36,057.71$0.002026-01-31
Mario Alberto Morales (R)$16,335.21$0.002025-09-30
Jay Nagy (R)$15,459.24$0.002026-02-04

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • Decision Desk HQLean DJuly 14, 2026
  • Sabato's Crystal BallLean DSeptember 10, 2026

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
Public Policy Research/Texas Southern UniversityAugust 18–22, 2026700 (LV)± 3.7%Vicente Gonzalez 45% · Eric Flores 42%
Ragnar Research Partners (R)June 14–16, 2026400 (LV)± 5.0%Vicente Gonzalez 41% · Eric Flores 44%
co/efficient (R)April 25–29, 2026777 (LV)± 3.5%Vicente Gonzalez 40% · Eric Flores 41%
co/efficient (R)April 25–29, 2026777 (LV)± 3.5%Generic Democrat 44% · Generic Republican 48%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas (retrieved October 22, 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: ERIC FLORES FOR CONGRESS.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 22, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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