Federal candidate · 2019–2020 cycle · past cycle

Chip Roy

Official portrait of Chip Roy
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. representative for Texas’s 21st district
Party
Republican
Hometown
Austin, TX
Born
1972
In Congress
House since 2019 · 7 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
FEC filing name
ROY, CHIP
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 21

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

RepublicanU.S. House · Texas District 21IncumbentGeneral-election nominee

FEC candidate ID H8TX21307 · Principal campaign committee: CHIP ROY FOR CONGRESS

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. House · Texas District 21$783,176.64Not running (declined to run)
2023–2024U.S. House · Texas District 21$2,899,549.54Won the general election (61.85%)
2021–2022U.S. House · Texas District 21$2,344,485.00General-election nominee
2019–2020U.S. House · Texas District 21$5,098,026.87General-election nominee
Total raised$5,098,026.87
Total spent$4,771,749.89
Cash on hand$463,582.78
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: $4,196,741.71PACs and other committees: $607,516.00Party committees: $2,000.00Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $263,183.17Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $28,585.99
  • Individual contributions$4,196,741.7182%
  • PACs and other committees$607,516.0012%
  • Party committees$2,000.000%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$263,183.175%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$28,585.991%

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

201 committees reported giving $652,377.00 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 201 committees

Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Chip Roy$1,319,029.51
  • Independent expenditures opposing Chip Roy$4,547,944.47
  • Company and union communications to members about Chip Roy$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 21, 2020 · 6 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Chip Roy (R)$5,098,026.87$463,582.782020-12-31
Wendy Davis (D)$10,428,476.26$61,611.352020-12-31
Virginia Louise Leeder (D)$55,341.13$0.002020-06-30
Michael Joseph Felts (I)$3,570.00$3,353.772019-06-30
Bruce Bintliff Boville (D)$2,000.00$0.002019-11-06

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

  • The Cook Political ReportTossupNovember 2, 2020
  • FiveThirtyEightLean R
  • Inside ElectionsTossup
  • Sabato's Crystal BallLean R
  • PoliticoTossup

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
WPA Intelligence (R)October 11–12, 2020412 (LV)–Chip Roy 47% · Wendy Davis 42%
Garin-Hart-Yang Research (D)August 31 – September 4, 2020401 (LV)± 5%Chip Roy 47% · Wendy Davis 48%
ALG Research (D)August 15–20, 2020500 (LV)± 4.4%Chip Roy 46% · Wendy Davis 46%
Garin-Hart-Yang Research (D)July 14–17, 2020500 (LV)± 4.25%Chip Roy 46% · Wendy Davis 45%
Public Policy Polling (D)September 19–21, 2019523 (LV) – 656 (LV)± 3.8% – ± 4.2%Generic Democrat 44% · Generic Republican 49%

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: CHIP ROY 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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